An IQ test, as most of you know, is an intelligence test. IQ stands for Intelligence Quotient which is the calculation of one’s score on an IQ test as compared with other test takers in the same age-group. There are several different types of intelligence tests, two of the most popular being the Stanford-Binet intelligence ...
IQ tests are supposed to show a general composite of a person’s intelligence and have strong predictive power in academia and in life. However, studies have shown that while IQ tests are very good at predicting performance in school, they are not as effective in predicting real-world success. According to Sternberg, IQ tests only predict ...
A few weeks ago, my friend Chris was studying for the LSAT, and he asked me for some help with the logical reasoning section, my specialty. After we tore through some sample questions together, he began to tease me about joining Mensa, “the high IQ society.” Every now and again this genius group creeps into ...
Here is another online scam to pay attention to. Free online IQ tests that require you to give out your cellphone number in order to receive your “results” from the test. These ads and pop-ups are showing up on Yahoo, Google, Twitter, Facebook, etc. The results are always the same when you take one of ...
How does the model minority stereotype affect Asian Americans in regard to their academic performance and why? While examining the average Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores by ethnicity and gender the question came up as to why Asian American students scored on average higher in the math section than all other ethnicities including White students. ...
The first person in the western world to attempt to measure intelligence was a man by the name of Francis Galton, who made his attempt in the late 1800s. Galton attempted to measure intelligence by measuring reaction times, head size, visual acuity, and color sense (Romero, Kemp, 2007). While now we know that these things ...
