Intelligence Accuracy : Intelligence Test Accuracy

Knowledge isn’t all about what people know or how well they are in school. IQ tests test the intelligence of the person; however they test the pure thinking capacity rather than what people know. This means that intelligence comes from the entire cognitive thinking ability and not what they

     Since the development of the intelligence quotient, schools in every part of the world have been using the IQ test to categorize millions of students into three groups. These three groups, which are the gifted, the average, and the retarded, are falsifications that perpetuate in our world culture and cause many gifted students to be deemed retarded and vice a versa. Why then is the IQ test so heavily relied on in our school systems? For schools the answer is simple, an I.Q. test is a reliable predictor of a students later performance in academics. This answer is relatively true, but where the I.Q. test falls extremely short is with testing the multiple

Intelligence testing is rather arbitrary as people can have many kinds of intelligence strengths and it's difficult to assign a measure of intelligence without flaws in the system. Though there are attempts at keeping standardization and norms to keep results unbiased and consistent there are still failings, which the most viable of those failings is that with intelligence testing and capital punishment such as the case of Daryl Atkins. Atkins was tested at an intelligence quotient of 59, which is about half the average score of 100 ("Module 7.5: Measures of Intelligence"., n.d.). The original jury had sentenced a mentally impaired man to death until it was taken to the Supreme Court where they ruled that it would be a cruel and unusual punishment,

All the intelligences can be brought from different types of backgrounds, they can stem from formal schooling, life experiences or just an individual having a certain aptitude towards a certain type of intelligence. Many aspects of the test were influenced through formal education. Five different subtests; mathematics, general knowledge, classification, verbal and pattern recognition are influenced through formal education. School curriculums are designed to train students in subjects such as mathematics, sciences and social studies that seem to overlap in the areas that are tested in the intelligence test. So an individual that isn’t formally trained in these areas if tested would be able to perform better as opposed to students that aren’t formally trained and they are given primarily the same exams that cover the same topics. Logic is the purest type of research that a person is able to display. If an individual lacks logic, they are unable to rationally reach a conclusion. It can be utilized in many areas of life which include but not limited to everyday life such as developing arguments and also being able to solve everyday

Each one of them are different and that’s why we asked ourselves is it really just one way to measure everyone’s intelligence?

Intelligence tests are inaccurate to measures true ability of a person because genes affect how a person responds to their surroundings, the tests cannot measure the person biological makeup or his true potential for being “smart”.

Student intelligence is often based off test results of one major test. Colleges and University then judge students based on those results. For example, Ceceilya scores on the practices test 645 and emily scores a 810 someone would say Emily is smarter than Ceceilya. But is these finding accurate? Should students really be judge based on one test? No a test should not defined a person's intelligence by a number. Ceceilya could get be a bad test taker, or that it not Ceceilya was not taught some of the material.

In researching the types of tests that are administered to determine intelligence, it became very clear that there were many differing opinions surrounding the efficacy of intelligence testing. There exists compelling information that suggest there is a lack of ability for any test to clearly identify and measure intelligence. It is very clearly noted that there is a question of the ability for academics based testing to measure a persons intelligence. One of the most noted tests in the United States that is used to measure the potential of students to perform in an educational setting is the Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT). Through the years this test has undergone many changes in attempts to overcome challenges in correctly

The Cultural Fair IQ test measures non-verbal intelligence, ordered in terms of difficulty, and based on image patterns while minimizing cultural and educational biases (Queendom, 2016). The testing site noted that this approach of the culture Fair IQ makes it stand apart from other tests of intelligence. My score on the test was “reasonably good”, indicating some basic ability. I personally did not see the test as a true measure of my intellectual ability.

Upon completing the Intelligence Assessment, the results concluded I have room for improvement for others emotions. One way I can honestly say I can improve this area is by being more sensitive to others feelings and emotions. I am the type of person when I have my mind made up for something and others don’t seem to agree, I could care less about what they feel or think. In other to improve this area, when dealing with these types of situations, I think I should think twice before reacting and I should also think about it from both perspectives.

Growing up, I never really had a problem with tests. I didn’t necessarily enjoy taking them, however I—thankfully-- never got too apprehensive. I looked at them as a way to determine my intelligence, and would gladly share my scores—both good and bad—with my peers. Looking back on my perception of tests, I find that my point of view was ignorant to the fact that test scores—whether they are standardized or not—do not determine a person’s intellect.

How is intelligence determined? Is it the ability to achieve a high score on a test or is it more than some questions on a paper with a score? Intelligence is defined by Oxford Dictionary as the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills. The true nature of intelligence lies within deeper aspects of a person's life that does not have a definitive score. This means a person who is deemed dull or unintelligent by society, may be intelligent in other parts of their life. Intelligence should be defined as different aspects of an individual's life like creativity, morality, or emotional intelligence rather than an IQ score in order to develop a society that values all kinds of intelligence and limits stereotypes.

The theory of multiple intelligences was developed by Dr. Howard Gardner in 1983. The Theory of Multiple Intelligences is a critique of the standard psychological view of intellect: there is a single intelligence, adequately measured by IQ or other short answer tests. Instead, on the basis of evidence from disparate sources, the theory claims that human beings have a number of relatively discrete intellectual capacities. IQ tests assess linguistic and logical-mathematical intelligence, and sometimes spatial intelligence; they are a reasonably good predictor of who will do well in school. This is because humans have several other significant intellectual capacities (Harvard University).

IQ is a test used all over the world. Even with the popularity, they do have major issues. IQ tests are a series of questions, and depending on how many the test-taker gets right, their intelligence is put into a number called an intelligence quotient, or “IQ”. A score below 85 is considered “below average”, and a score above 100 is considered “above average”. Some might say it is a tool used to help group people in society for different purposes; however IQ tests should be banned because IQ does not measure all areas of intelligence, and it is not always correct.

PsycINFO was the database I used for this literature summary. Firstly, I searched articles relate to breastfeeding. I tried to exhaust the results on this topic by changing three kinds of phrasings (breast feeding, breastfeeding or breast fed), and they turned out to be 4,133. Secondly, I searched articles relate to intelligence and because of the numerous amount of studies in this field, I specified it by choosing the following interested scopes - cognitive ability, cognitive development, intelligence quotient, intelligence, and IQ. I also searched for cognitive measurement as a performance of intelligence, using Cognit* to widen the results. I added up the articles on intelligence and cognition by the OR Boolean operator and got 430,710 results. Next, I applied the AND Boolean operator to combine breastfeeding with intelligence and gained 262 pieces of studies. With the aim of exploring more about the confounding effect on past literature, I searched confound in three ways, namely confound, confounded or confounded. The previous 262 outcomes which were intersected with confound then attenuated to 22, this step also helped me narrow the scope down. All of the searches concentrated on title and abstract, expect for confounding I look it up in the whole context.