What are abuses and dangers of intelligence tests?

Answer 1

1. IQ testing can be used to classify children into stereotyped categories, which limit their freedom to choose fields of study.
2. IQ tests are limited in predicting nontest or nonacademic activity, yet they are sometimes incorrectly used to make these inferences.
3. Long-term predictions are less accurate because there are many uncontrolled, influencing variables.
4. There is an inherent bias toward emphasizing convergent, analytical, and scientific mode of thought. It may limit creative children because tests do not assess for nonacademically oriented intellectual abilities. People are capable of many more cognitive abilities than can be possibly measured on an intelligence test.
5. They are not a measure of innate fixed ability or representative of all problem-solving situations. The tests tend to look at test results as absolute facts reflecting permanent characteristics in an individual.
6. They are not concerned with the underlying processes involved in problem solving. They focus on the final product or outcome rather than on the steps involved in reaching the outcome. The practitioner may apply labels quickly and easily, without attempting to examine the specific strengths and weaknesses that might make precise therapeutic interventions or knowledgeable recommendations possible.
7. Even short-term academic placements made solely on the basis of IQ have a high chance of failure because all the variables that may be crucial for success are not and cannot be measured by any intelligence test.
8. Limited usefulness in assessing minority groups with divergent cultural backgrounds. Minorities tend to be at a disadvantage because of deficiencies in motivation, lack of practice, lack of familiarity with culturally loaded items, and difficulties in establishing rapport.

Answer 2

The dangers are that the tests will not be used properly. Intelligence tests are a great measure of inherent ability and genetic prowess, but not a very good indicator of success. The problems with intelligence tests is that they do not measure ambition, patience, and attitude, which are key factors in the success of people at work and in interpersonal relationships.

Abuses of intelligence tests would be judging people unfairly based solely on the results of the intelligence tests. For instance, a person may be a proven mechanic with incredible mechanical aptitude, and if this person is turned down for a job because their ability to read and comprehend was less than a person with no experience and no mechanical aptitude, but high intelligence test results, this would be a clear abuse.

Answer 3

The dangers are where do they measure the nature of the person or the culture they live?
IQ tests are subjective to what is taught in the main stream and not where life is not the same or where technology is not a given.

Answer 4

Someone's IQ is relative. A person could be very intelligent, yet have a low IQ because they grew up in a different environment than another.
They should test the person's capacity to learn, not what they already know.

Answer 5

The dangers of IQ tests are that one can become labeled by the score that he attains. Labeling in itself is a dangerous thing, and when people get stuck in labels that is where the problem is. It is the same as stereotyping, its just bad all the way around.

Answer 6

They cannot measure character... and what good is a high IQ if there are not good character traits or morals also in place . They cannot measure goals or commitments . Way too much emphasis is placed on intelligent testing.

Answer 7

You could get a paper-cut...or if you're a speed-reader, you could crash into some parenthesis, fall on your asterisk, and be in a comma for months which would a terrible apostrophe!!!

Answer 8

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