I need reasons to support this statement about intelligence...?

Question

Okay, so I have this debate, and I have to agree with this statement in the debate:
Intelligence test scores should influence the resources and opportunities of an individual.
I've already come up with these reasons:
There's a kind of intelligence test that tells you where your most intelligence is utilized. Therefore, for example, if the test states that you have musical intelligence, you may want to go into music and should have more opportunities through music.
If you score lower on an IQ test or any kind of test, you should have more resources than someone who scored higher, because the person who scored higher can apply themselves more.
Intelligence tests create order by separating people with less intelligence than more intelligence so that those with less can learn better and those with more can be challenged.
I don't exactly agree with all those things, but do you have any more ideas? Thanks!

Answer 1

before i give any advice, lemme say that i agree with the satement except for the limiting the resources of someone with a higher score.

This, i would find, completely unfair because while the higher end can indeed process more information we still need to have ready access to it. I can state this one as a fact because i've experienced it, I was identified at age 9 as having an IQ above 145, putting me in the top 1% of the human population (another discussion for another day). anyway, being clinically genius does mean that we can retain information better and apply it more easily, but we need the same resources and opportunities as anyone else.



My idea would be to allow Students to progress at their own rate and to be enforced in the areas they are strong in. I am brilliant in any history, science or literature, but math fries my brain when it's just for the sake of math, so maybe for people that think like me, gear the math courses towards aplicable situations. etc etc.


Also i think that, rather than just by intelligence, kids should be taught acording to their best meathod of learning. most people learn visually, with pictures, not sound. unfortunately most teachers teach by sound (lectures, notes, reading... which is sound because the human brain recognizes words as sounds not pictures oddly enough). Maybe we should have independent classes for those of us who learn in different ways.

Answer 2

OK. Sounds good. Except for the fact that tests also help understand what can be taken advantage of and not. Why give someone something they cant take advantage of. And in war it is the IQ tests that let a country know who to and not to put on the front lines and who must make sure they get there. Give more resources to a lesser intelligent person if and only if those resource will be used properly. I am intelligent enough to drive a big rig but not fly a war jet. Some know how to shoot a rifle and others know how to make the rifle.