What is the measure of human IQ?

Answer 1

Your IQ will be diferent depending on which test you use. The best ones though show you which scale they are using. IQ is not actuall inteligence it is your ability to learn things, and your critical reasoning skills. Someone could not be very knowledgable, but have a high IQ because they can learn things very easily. Usually personal experiandce doesn't count toward your IQ. There is also social IQ which is something a lot of people who seem verya smart and may study all the time are lacking in, even though otherwise they seem to have a high IQ. I really good IQ will test many factors I can't remember the rest, there are like 6 I mentioned 2 or 3. The way we do the tests now, there is no really acurate way to measure IQ since it is not well enough defined, even with all these factors.

Answer 2

If an IQ test is supposed to measure a person's intelligence, the question is: What is intelligence? Is it the ability to do well in school? Is it the ability to read well and spell correctly? Or are the following people intelligent?

The physician who smokes three packets of cigarettes a day?

The Nobel Prize winner whose marriage and personal life are in ruins?

The corporate executive who has ingeniously worked his way to the top and also earned a heart attack for his efforts?

The brilliant and successful music composer who handled his money so poorly that he was always running from his creditors (incidentally, his name was Mozart)?18

The problem is that the term intelligence has never been defined adequately and therefore nobody knows what an IQ test is supposed to measure. In spite of this the futures of thousands of children are determined by the results of this test.

Already in the early 1920s the journalist Walter Lippmann maintained that IQ tests were nothing but a series of stunts. “We cannot measure intelligence when we have not defined it,” he said.

Answer 3

"IQ" stands for "Intelligence Quotient." A person's IQ is supposed to be a measure of that person's intelligence: the higher the IQ number, the greater the intelligence. This is inaccurate, however, since it assumes that there is only one kind of intelligence. Most people recognize that there are some people with fantastic memories, some with mathematical minds, some with musical genius, some with mechanical expertise, some with good vocabularies, some good at seeing analogies, some good at synthesizing, some at unifying, etc. Some people excel at more than one of these behaviors. It would be more accurate to speak of human intelligences than of intelligence. An IQ test, therefore, should be considered a measure of some kinds of intelligence, but not all. The most accurate claim one can make about an IQ test is that it measures IQ.

In order to better understand what IQ is. One should first ponder over the idea of "Intelligence".

Intelligence is meant to be a generalised measure of overall ability or potential ability.

The problem is that it is difficult to get a consensus about what "intelligence" actually is:
"The power of good responses from the point of view of truth or fact." (Thorndike)
"A biological mechanism by which the effects of a complexity of stimuli are brought together and given a somewhat unified effect in behavior." (Peterson)
"The ability to carry on abstract thinking." (Terman)
"The ability to adapt oneself adequately to relatively new situations in life." (Pintner)
"The capacity for knowledge, and knowledge possessed." (Henmon)
"The capacity to acquire capacity." (Woodrow) "Viewed narrowly, there seem to be almost as many definitions of intelligence as there were experts asked to define it." (Sternberg 1987)
Thus, one can say:
Intelligence is the measure of "general" apptitude

Answer 4

A score of 100 is the average intelligence of the population. IQ depends on many factors and is proportionate to your intelligence at your age. For example if there was a 9 year old who could do advanced math and analyze literature, he/she would have an extremely high IQ, but if you took an average college student who could do the same tasks their IQ would probably just be a bit over 100.

Answer 5

IQ testing is a method used by psychologists to measure what is generally considered intelligence. The concept of IQ, or "Intelligence Quotient" was first introduced by French psychologist Alfred Binet in 1904. The "quotient" refers to Binet's definition of IQ as Mental Age divided by Chronological Age. This quotient is then multiplied by 100 to make it a whole number. However this method does not generally work over age 16.

There are a number of standardized tests which are reliable for testing IQ. One such test is called Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS).

IQ are distributed in the normal bell curve shape with 100 being average. Anything about 125 on an IQ test is considered to be in the superior range.

There are many criticisms around the standard IQ test as a measure of intelligence because it is said to measure only one very specific type of intelligence. Other psychologists like Howard Gardner of Harvard propose that there is more than one type of intelligence. His theory includes eight different intelligences:

Linguistic intelligence ("word smart"):
Logical-mathematical intelligence ("number/reasoning smart")
Spatial intelligence ("picture smart")
Bodily-Kinesthetic intelligence ("body smart")
Musical intelligence ("music smart")
Interpersonal intelligence ("people smart")
Intrapersonal intelligence ("self smart")
Naturalist intelligence ("nature smart")

There is still room for more development!

Answer 6

I believe that intelligence is the ability to comprehend diverse concepts and correctly apply those concepts to real world problems.

Answer 7

I. Q is only a measurenent of basic knowledge.

Normal I.Q is supposed to be 100% and most of us are around that level..

Answer 8

Your ability to adapt to change this theory has now been proven,,,

Answer 9

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Answer 10

his behaveir and standard of living.