Iq Effect On America

One would assume that intelligence testing in the United States began with psychiatrists or government officials. It was actually a football coach who coached the University of South California at the start of the century. He

Knowledge isn’t all about what people know or how well they are in school. IQ tests test the intelligence of the person; however they test the pure thinking capacity rather than what people know. This means that intelligence comes from the entire cognitive thinking ability and not what they

     Since the development of the intelligence quotient, schools in every part of the world have been using the IQ test to categorize millions of students into three groups. These three groups, which are the gifted, the average, and the retarded, are falsifications that perpetuate in our world culture and cause many gifted students to be deemed retarded and vice a versa. Why then is the IQ test so heavily relied on in our school systems? For schools the answer is simple, an I.Q. test is a reliable predictor of a students later performance in academics. This answer is relatively true, but where the I.Q. test falls extremely short is with testing the multiple

In Chapter three of the book Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell pushes the idea that intelligence isn’t all about book smarts. Gladwell starts by introducing a man named Christopher Langen. Langen is famous for having an off the chart IQ. Langen exercises the idea of intelligence by using his surrounding to his advantage.Speaking at six months,reading at 3 yrs., and Questioning God by age 5. Though he has an IQ that can’t be recorded due to it’s stature, it isn’t because of his hard work and studying. Gladwell goes on to talk about how intelligence can only be measured to a certain extent. Someone who has a higher IQ may be smarter than someone with lower IQ but only to a certain extent. Intelligence has a threshold. Someone who studied all their

“Blacks still score below 75 percent of American whites on most standardized tests” (Jencks and Phillips). The belief that intelligence and aptitude are innate seems to be especially important in discussions of racial differences (Jencks and Phillips 6). White Americans score closer on IQ tests to other white populations across the globe than to the worldwide black average (Saletan 1). An important question that may come to mind is whether intelligence tests biased. Intelligence tests are likely to be culturally biased when a standardized test reflects what is learned through experience in a culture that does not regard to another race as highly (Young). For instance, if a standardized test result represented an ingroup preference exclusively than it may only measure a specific part of intelligence; for example the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, WAIS, is more verbal while the Raven's Progressive Matrices, RPM, is more visual (Young). This may cause a majority of individuals with autism to do better on the RPM due to autistic students connecting with images rather than words. Young has stated that intelligence tests that only focus on certain neurological criterias and are not well indicators of intelligence due to it not equally indicating all types of intellect. Yet a majority of psychologists now agree that intelligence tests measure developed

According to Nesbitt (2005), other researchers misrepresented standardized tests by associating intellect with heritability. IQ testing to dissimilar cultural groups/people with disability opposes questions as to what IQ really measures. According to Arnold et al (2011), IQ testing generates a floor effect when pertained to people with lower IQ's. Example, in a practice IQ scores beneath a definite cut-off are still being utilized to conclude and categorize an individual’s intelligent disability. An alternative explanation to this matter would be to evaluate people from dissimilar culture groups and or those with mental retardation and incapacities with more than standardized tests. As for the natural bias for the mentally retarded, individuals should be assesses based on their needs, and the atmosphere influenced within their lives.

same IQ test for 100 years. We have had many chances to change the test ,but they think it is fine. This paragraph explains that standardized tests don’t measure all the skills people need in life.

The major findings of that report indicated that the effects of these tests on social classes were ‘strong and consistent’ and that while ‘the upper respondent is more likely to favor the use of tests than the lower class respondent,’ the lower class respondent is more likely to see intelligence tests measuring inborn intelligence (Garrison).

Intelligence tests are inaccurate to measures true ability of a person because genes affect how a person responds to their surroundings, the tests cannot measure the person biological makeup or his true potential for being “smart”.

Interest in intelligence dates back thousands of years. But it wasn't until psychologist Alfred Binet was commissioned to identify French students who needed educational assistance that the first IQ (intelligent quotient) test was born. The problem found by early psychologists was not in defining intelligence but rather measuring intelligence. The test that Binet and Simon divised early in the century distinguished between fast and slow learner and also between children of different age groups. Then Lewis Terman compared mental age and chronological age to assess intelligence and the result is called an intelligence quotient. These early tests worked well with children but had limitations as age increased. David Weschsler developed a test for adults. In fact, he designed several tests including the WAUS-IV (for adults), the WISC-IV (for children), and WPPSI-IV (for pre-school). Today the use of these tests are more prevalent than the Stanford-Binet tests (Ciccarelli & White, 2015, p. 277). On the early intelligence tests in the beginning of the 20th-century, immigrants were given tests to enter the United States. The problem lies in the fact that most immigrants did not speak the English language. There are many today who criticize standardized tests by saying they are culturally and racially biased.

Some people that have been in charge of conducting the intelligence testing has been accused of skewing the results of some minorities such as people of different races, gender and class. According to Etienne Benson of the American Psychological Association, “There have produced new theories and tests that broaden the concept of intelligence beyond its traditional boundaries.” Psychologists like Benson understand that judging knowledge is subjective because there can not be one true way for someone to

The Cultural Fair IQ test measures non-verbal intelligence, ordered in terms of difficulty, and based on image patterns while minimizing cultural and educational biases (Queendom, 2016). The testing site noted that this approach of the culture Fair IQ makes it stand apart from other tests of intelligence. My score on the test was “reasonably good”, indicating some basic ability. I personally did not see the test as a true measure of my intellectual ability.

For decades I.Q. testing has been seen as: controversial, insufficient, errorful, and unreliable when it comes to determining intellect. Used nowadays in standardized testing for public school systems as a way to measure their student’s “intelligence” in school and determine the federal funding for each school on a yearly basis. Many have seen this as unfair and wrongful of the government to try and measure something so intricate and vital to everyday living into simple numbers and figures. Then tell those who don’t land within certain parameters that they are useless in the real world.

IQ testing is often criticized. For example, many believe that the tests are culturally biased. Results may depend as much on motivation and other factors as on innate intelligence.

The International High IQ Society Test is a very short, simple test to take. The test had a total of eight questions and consisted of shapes and pattern assessments. In my opinion, anyone could be able to complete the International High IQ Society Test since no reading is necessary. To complete the IQTest however, the tester has to be extremely more literate to complete the test. The IQTest intelligence test is the most scientifically valid IQ test on the web today. (IQTest 2015) This test asks questions relating much more to a person’s vocabulary, mathematic, and critical thinking skills. The test is also much longer than the International High IQ Society Test, as it has thirty eight questions that require a lot of thinking. The Multiple Intelligences test on the other hand require almost no thinking at all. To complete this test, all the person taking the test has to do is simply complete questions about themselves. (Multiple Intelligences 2015) The Multiple Intelligence test is a little longer than the other two tests, but it is much easier. The results of the final test greatly differed from the results of the other two intelligence tests. As opposed to the other tests that give you an actual number result, the results were presented in the form of a chart showing the different groups of “smarts” and shows how well the tester performed in each category.