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Originally posted by madame_zora@May 18 2004, 07:36 PM
Aww, dammit, I'm from Cincinnati and was getting all puffed up thinking we were smart! lol. Although I do not put much credence on IQ tests (being a Psych major, I've taken over 20 of them), I'm sure the stats they would be using would just be from the ones taken in grade schools, which many states give. The illusion that IQ tests can accurately measure a person's intellectual potential is preposterous, more often they measure education, if anything at all. That being said, I don't think ol' George W is a thinking man's president. Hilarious topic! |
Well, IQ was one of those reifications. The degree of reification is obvious with the case of one Charles Spearman, who argued for a g factor, short for "generic intelligence". No neurologist could find a process responsible for g, so Spearman said that it must be a vitalistic force.