does IQ scores actually measures????

Question

please explain it to me.

Answer 1

You should take the time to read Steven J Gould's "The Mismeasure of Man" about IQ tests. It will make you extremely sceptical about their value as it points out (amoungst other things) how culturally biased the entire concept of IQ actually is.

IQ does have some value, but it's only a rough indicator, and highly original minds don't, in general, score well on it. Fast information processing is the key to a high score.

Answer 2

There is more then one kind of "Test" and more then one type of "Test".

So if you mean Measure as in compare to others then you will want to look into Test that measure in Percentile. The highest I have been on those is 99%,.. they are hard to understand... they are like the class test where the grades/scores on based on who got the highest and curve down from there. So the highest is supposed to be 100%... only one person might get 100% and you shouldn't expect anyone else to get the same it seems like. So 99% is like the best you can get without breaking the record. From 99% down it's " 99% did as well or worse then me"... I don't want to know what they tell the person to score 0%,.. I hope that never happens.

The test that are not Percentiles may have a points system per answer. Which,.. there should be no way anyone can figure these out without ruining the test for others if they told you.

If you want to take an IQ Test online,.. try this... it's close enough to the real scores people get, some how.
http://web.tickle.com

Answer 3

I agree with other comments. The IQ test was actually devised as a way to prove that white caucasians were smarter that any other races- principally at the time, African-Americans. The questions were written by white people living in a 'white world'....so, for example, an african-american that has grown up with different values and understandings of the world would never be as proficient as an educated white man that has grown up with white make understandings.It is a form of institutionalised racism.
Imagine taking an IQ test in another culture, that was written by people of that culture!! There has actually been studies of young students 'National Exams' and how they exclude some children just by including subjects they may be unfamiliar with, such as public transport if they live in an isolated area.
All knowledge is subjective.

Answer 4

IQ tests are designed to measure your ability to use knowledge you have as well as, to some extent, how much and what kind of knowledge you have.

They were originally intended to measure one's ability to use knowledge but the weakness is that one first has to have the knowledge the test maker deems satisfactory to test and to have similar (to the test maker) ways of thinking about said knowledge. The classic example here is showing a picture of a cup and pictures of two other items, a table and a saucer (small plate, though its relative size is not necessarily apparent when next to the picture of the table) and then to ask which of the two items the cup most belongs with. Saucer is expected as who in the world does not use a saucer with every cup of liquid??? Well, poor people in our culture and many people outside of our culture would properly answer "table" since they might never have thought of how important having a small plate under one's cup is or even might not realize it is a small plate and never have thought how important it is to have a table-size plate under one's cup.

Sometimes, tests are made that supposedly carefully consider such factors and some tests include a passage filled with information one is expected to then use, directly or by reasoning, to answer questions or perform tasks. All have weaknesses, even the last (consider a person who cannot read, or reads a different language; consider a person who is not really skilled at immediately internalizing and using information, but does markedly better if he can study it and use it for other things in the interim, then be tested and found to be very good at using it — college boards, for instance, like this approach which requires one to be good at "cramming" yet their suggestions about how to do well brim with the idea that cramming is useless...)

In short, real IQ tests, while usually useful for humans are absolutely imperfect and one has to keep that in mind when using their results. Some uses are perfectly appropriate, some hideously wrong. IQ tests for animals, such as tossing a poor rat into a pool of water deeper than it can stand and reach air in, always seem clever when described in papers, but do not necessarily measure intelligence correctly any more than IQ tests for humans do. And we cannot interview the poor rats later to ensure they did in fact use the intellect we hoped to measure.

However, regardless of how often people say it, IQ tests were not ever and are not designed to somehow keep blacks or any other race or other grouping down. Scum may mis-use results that are poor for the reasons above including lack of the assumed knowledge pool due to the scum themselves having made sure the group's education was pathetic, but that is like saying a car is a murder weapon just because 153 scum intentionally ran someone over last year.

Like them or not, just as no one (usually) hires by taking applications and then selecting hirees by lot whether qualified or not, everyone seems to need to measure this and that so IQ tests will be around for a long time to come. Soon they will probably be a "modern" version of the concept, perhaps a PET scan while answering questions or performing tasks and one fails if one uses the "wrong" part of his brain while engaged. And in twenty years that will seem quaint and there will be some new "modern" way.

(Sigh)

Answer 5

They measure your ability to take IQ tests.

Answer 6

Yes!! It actually measures!!!!



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n00b.

Answer 7

yes it does - it shows how inteligent you are!