Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 14:28:58 12/23/01
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On December 23, 2001 at 13:17:20, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote: Miguel you are a clever man :) One number describing the "IQ" is not enough. Was Einstein more intelligent than Mozart, van Gogh or Kasparov? They all were/is gifted in there respective fields, how do we compare them by an IQ number? What if Mozart turns out to be a retard on the IQ scale? A simple written test can't be used to show anything about IQ other than you are good at solving that type of tests. Who would say that Intel makes better chips than AMD just because they can run at a higher GHz? Most of us know that one number alone is meaningless, more data is required :) A good IQ test should test all parts of the brain and produce a number for each center of the brain. The whole concept of IQ is not well defined as far as I know. It the IQ hangs on the result of a little written test, then it's utterly laughable. And I see no correlation between "IQ" and chess skills, who's to say there isn't some retarded "Rainman" out there that could beat Kasparov and co. ? Maybe there is a social factor, that "book-people" tend to play more chess and golf than they do athletics. This could certainly give the illusion that you need to be well read to play good chess, I just don't buy it. >First of all, there is no agreement in what "intelligence" means. >Second of all, we have no idea whether an IQ test is accurate to measure >something that we have no idea what it means. So, a high IQ "number" cannot hurt >but does not mean much to me. >It is like "I can do 100 meters in 10.2 seconds". Good, you are fast >and obviously you are a good athlete. Does it mean you are going to excel >in any sport? no. Many of the basketball players will suck in soccer no matter >how hard they try and viceversa. >Same when we compare skills in music, math, chess, experimental sciences, >abstract sciences, literature and some other arts. If you excel in one of those >does not mean that you excel in any other. You might be above average, though. > >The bottom line is, the most important thing is how you perform and IQ >does not measure that, unless you want somebody to solve IQ tests. :-)
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