Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 01:43:30 12/03/99
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On December 02, 1999 at 10:00:05, Chris Carson wrote: >I am a licensed professional in this field What field, exactly? > and conduct IQ assessments on >a regular basis. IQ is mental age/chronological age. Yes. > Most IQ assessments >measure knowledge attainment If this is the only thing they measure, they are not doing a good job. > >Also, IQ is not static. True, but it should be fairly stable. I.e., it shouldn't change very much, and certainly not very suddenly. > You can increase your IQ by increasing your >knowledge (mental age/chronological age). No. IQ is a measure of intelligence, not knowledge. Intelligence includes problem-solving, pattern recognition, association, application, synthesis, evaluation, creativity, etc. Of course some knowledge is involved in conventional IQ testing by default. It is impossible to test someone without relying on some use of knowledge. However, the knowledge has very little affect on the outcome. Mental Age != Knowledge. > Your IQ may lower if you do >not use your mental skills. I suppose this could be true, but I'm not sure about it. >I have not seen any valid IQ assessments (GRE, SAT, ...) Agh! Neither the GRE or SAT measures anything close to IQ. Some parts of the SAT could be extrapolated to do something like this (the analogy parts, specifically), but the test itself is a pretty basic test of knowledge - "How much have you learned?". > that cover >chess knowledge, so I do not believe that IQ is a reliable indicator >of chess playing skill. ^ current :) > However, IQ does give some indication that >a person is capable of learning if they have the desire and put in the >time to do so. I agree. A person with 75 IQ simply isn't going to become GM strength (ignoring the odd chess-playing savant, if there are any, who may be as good as anyone). >I could go on about IQ and teach a 16 week course on IQ assessment, but >I hope you get the general idea. :) I hope in the 16 weeks you will cover that IQ != Knowledge != Mental Age. :/ Jeremiah P.S. Sorry if I sound too harsh in this message. It's not my intent to be so. I just get bugged when I hear something like this, (Which is entirely too often, mostly from people who have no idea what they're talking about.) especially from one who should know the difference. :(
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