by Monocromatico » Tue Aug 24, 2004 3:03 am
Most IQ tests I have taken are planned for the average literate white people grown under the occidental culture. If you are someone with no reading habit (and therefore, low vocabulary), little geography knowledge, or no math theory, will get a low score and be labeled as retarded or something. It tests you culture more than your proper intelligence - but then, what is intelligence?<p>The logic based tests are also flawed. You have to see patterns in shapes, numbers and words, but then, most times there is no single pattern to be found in a single set of pictures/words/numbers, and no correct answer - still, if you choose the option the test makers think is not right, you are stupid.<p>To quote my mom: "Psychologists are a bunch of pedant jerks."<p>She is a psychologist. :^P