This is the month of school starting. Where will you sit in the class at the front with the curious and compliant students, or in the back with the rowdy and distracted ones? That's what I remember - I always got to sit in the front, attentive and compliant.
How will the teacher regard you - will it be based on your compliance behaviour in class or on your IQ and your intelligence "potential" ? Is there some relationship?
The Intelligence Quotient - IQ - the standardized set of tests designed to assess human intelligence, coined by the psychologist William Stem in 1912. Divide a person's mental age score by the person's chronological age. The resulting fraction was multiple by 100 to obtain the IQ score.
This instrument used in the education system must lead to significant bias by practitioners. Giving IQ tests, looking at the results, and then what? Doesn't it influence behaviour? I don't think teachers ignore the results and are consistent with each student? It doesn't seem likely to me - so how is it that such a bias and discrimination system persists? We apply it in all kinds of placements - educational, job applications, and more. In the 20th century in the U.S. it was used extensively for placement in the armed forces.
To me this seems like a quick decision method - a short-cut is how I consider it.
In the 1920s, the U.S. Eugenics Movement wanted a test like this to filter out and eliminate the undesirables that were considered the feeble-minded. Sterilization occurred in the 1920's in the thousands. The practice only lost its momentum when the horrors of Nazi Germany were revealed.
But this can't quell the significant amount of effort put into this area by scientists and researches. It must be a compelling mystery. It has gone on for centuries now with more kinds of intelligence tests and competing intelligence tests. I haven't figured out what is there to be learned by tests like this or is it a compelling curiosity in the end?
It seems that way doing goggle searches. Who is the smartest person in the world? Stephen Hawking is identified as the smartest person in the world and his IQ is listed as 160-170. There are other people designated "the smartest people" who have no IQ listing. So how did we get to deciding they are the smartest people? These articles reference their accomplishments in science mostly.
See a list of the smartest people HERE. As you scroll down, you will be constantly harassed with the pop-up IQ Test: What Is Your IQ? Remember it is an intelligence test and not an irritability test.
There's the highest IQ score - 228 - Marilyn von Savant. Then there's another person Ainan Celeste Cawley with a score of 263.
You can find out the country with the highest IQ - Singapore, Hong Kong and South Korea are the highest scoring countries. Canada is not in the top 10. Our score is 99, below the U.K. and above the U.S.
We've only touched the surface of the history of intelligence measurement and surprising facts about IQ scores.
But enough of this on Labour Day weekend - the great celebration of the transition from summer to autumn.This leads directly to these two images that have the sense of transitions and portals. These are in the Abstract Thoughts Series.
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