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IQ Testing

"The score on an intelligence test does predict one's ability to handle school subjects, though it foretells little of success later in life."(Gardner) Intelligence by definition is the capacity to understand and apply knowledge. Honestly, how can that be tested? What happens if the test taker is sick or he/she is answering the questions stupidly for some odd reason? There is too much esteem behind this test; it should have no bearing other than a predicting tool. Not the scale that one must measure up to be considered intelligent.

Gardner's statement says that the test can predict how one can handle certain situations. Is sitting down with a professor of some sort for an hour answering questions going to determine how well you can handle yourself? I don't thi


nk so. The only real way these handling skills can be tested is by grading the test takers experience. The test can not predict how a person will act in a street fight or in a car accident when their life is on the line; However, if the professor were to look at the takers life history and read that the man has survived ten car accidents went to college for eight years and is blind, maybe then may he judge how capable this guy is of learning.

The Intelligence Quotient may be far from perfect, but it is the only thing we have. The main things I disagree with are the facts that it is based on whether or not the test taker is concentrating and the score is at the discretion of another human being. What gives someone the power to tell another person if they are

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