I have borderline intellectual functioning and my high school and community college GPAs were above 3.0. I had some genuinely harder classes and had to work much harder to get good grades in them.
IQ tests have never been anything more than skills tests. They were originally developed by Alfred Binet to see if French schoolchildren could manage their classes. The idea was to test the range of skills taught in school, nothing more. The concept of intelligence is incredibly vague, and we really have no idea what the term means, at all.
I wish they were skill tests. For higher IQ they can't measure difference in abilities because being able to see a near random pattern in a 30 second question is very different than organizing a complex multi-part solution over the course of weeks to years.
Once you are 120 and above no one should care if you can see more patterns. People should care if you make a mess of projects, or find the best way to simplify a problem.
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I have borderline intellectual functioning and my high school and community college GPAs were above 3.0. I had some genuinely harder classes and had to work much harder to get good grades in them.
IQ tests have never been anything more than skills tests. They were originally developed by Alfred Binet to see if French schoolchildren could manage their classes. The idea was to test the range of skills taught in school, nothing more. The concept of intelligence is incredibly vague, and we really have no idea what the term means, at all.
I wish they were skill tests. For higher IQ they can't measure difference in abilities because being able to see a near random pattern in a 30 second question is very different than organizing a complex multi-part solution over the course of weeks to years.
Once you are 120 and above no one should care if you can see more patterns. People should care if you make a mess of projects, or find the best way to simplify a problem.
These are all skills. You are simply trying to distinguish important skills, from less important skills.