What exactly is IQ?

Question

Is it natural intelligence, like how much intelligence you are born with? In that case, how will IQ tests help?

Answer 1

As an educator I believe that IQ is both nature (how we are born) and nurture (the environment we are brought up in), and most agree, this is the most popular theory scientists have come up with thus far.

So, and example of nurture would be if two children are born with an IQ of 100 (which is about average). One is sat in front of the TV and rarely played with and touched in a positive manner (which has very positive benefits especially in infancy), if they are rarely talked to etc. their IQ can actually go down and vice verse.

IQ is actually very complicated and many examiners that I have come across say it can vary up to 10 points on any given day simply based on variables like mood, sleep, hunger, worries, focus, stimulants in the room...many many things.

Honestly I do not believe that IQ says much about a person other than general intelligence. I do see my students IQs but I do not believe a students with an IQ of 82 will be any less successful than one with an IQ of 130. In fact I have seen the opposite happen due to effort.

Answer 2

IQ tests are important only for the reason they were first invented. They were developed as a method to determine what grade level students should be placed. The results of much testing proved that age of the student is by far the most important factor in determining readiness to learn. So IQ tests are not given as a matter of course, but schools do administer various achievement tests to measure the quality of teaching or to receive government grants and funding.

But a small fraction of children need to be placed in special education or GATE classes and this requires testing that ignores acheivement or prior training factors and measures the native capacity to learn as being above or below norms.

Testing of adults is extremely suspect and any IQ test not administered by a psychologist is worthless.

An IQ of 80 is a real number. That person, by definition, will perform at the 3rd grade level when his contemporaries are working at the 5th grade studies. The school has to decide how many grades of regular school he should fail before he goes to a facility that will address his learning ability at a level where he will succeed.

Answer 3

It is intelligence, but not necissarily natural. Yes, some people will be automatically smarter than others. However, people can learn how to be smart. Therefore, IQ tests test a combination of natural intelligence and learned intelligence.

Answer 4

Its a myth, it's actually whatever an IQ test measures. One gives a child an IQ test to get an objective measure of his intelligence, this gives you a number, that may or may not measure his intelligence, but it's better than a guess.
DONT LET THEM PUT YOUR KID IN THE DUMBELL CLASS BECAUSE HIS NUMBER IS LOW

Answer 5

Intelligence quotient is very controversial.
It is supposed to rank people by perceptual and reasoning ability, with 100 the norm by definition.
The tests are usually written for a person of a certain culture, and a person of another culture will not be familiar with them. This is called "cultural bias."
They were and are used by the military to tell if a person is likely to succeed at a certain job.
I believe that standardized testing has been misused and overused.

Answer 6

The tests have gotten better.. but they still aren't a true show of your intellectual potential. They try to test your logic, creativity and how much you have absorbed from your past in terms of education and culture. Potentially, someone could have the brain of Einstein.. but was never exposed to culture or education.. in which case they would do fairly poorly on an IQ test ... this is true of all standardized tests.. but unfortunately it is the best we have at this time.

Answer 7

It is the measure of intelligence, natural and learned...
you begin learning the day you were born...so learned intelligence would HAVE to be part of the quotient. There would be no real, clear way of measuring "natural" intelligence...since all learning begins from the start of life...

Answer 8

Mental ability.Your level of intelligence