It should be noted that I 've upvoted every single person who 's disagreed with me here, as far as I know. That said. In 7th grade, I took an SAT test without preparing for it at all, it was spur-of-the-moment, I knew about it about an hour ahead of time and didn 't do any research or anything. I scored higher on it than the average person using it to apply for college in my area. An IQ test has shown me to be in the 99.9th percentile for IQ. This is the highest result the test I was given reaches; anything further and they 'd consider it to be within the margin of error for that test. My mother 's boyfriend of 8 years is an aerospace engineer who graduated Virginia Tech. At the age of 15, I understand physics better than him, and I owe very little of it to him, as he would rarely give me a decent explanation of anything, just tell me that my ideas were wrong and become aggravated with me for not quite understanding thermodynamics. He 's not particularly successful as an engineer, but I 've met lots of other engineers who aren 't as good as me at physics, so I 'm guessing that 's not just a result of him being bad at it. I 'm also pretty good at engineering. I don 't have a degree, and other than physics I don 't have a better understanding of any aspect of engineering than any actual engineer, but I have lots of ingenuity for inventing new things. For example, I independently invented regenerative brakes before finding out what they were, and I was only seven or eight
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Being raised in a very STEM-centric family, I began to realize the importance of STEM at an early age from spending time with my parents during school breaks. My mother is a professor of electrical engineering at Georgia Tech and my father is a civil engineer who works for Georgia Power. I played around with Scratch and small robots when I was very young, spending a lot of time at Georgia Tech. What we, humans, can create fascinates me. I
I was too young to compete, and by the time I was old enough, my family had relocated to Georgia. Although my opportunity was stifled, my passion for STEM was not. While in middle school, I seized the chance to apply to a STEM magnet school and was accepted. Today I am grateful for my experience as I’ve taken advanced math and science courses that will prepare me for college. I also was Vice President of my school’s Science Club and member of the Science Olympiad Team. I learned about community opportunities and different applications of science through these extracurriculars. Through Science Club, I led and performed experiments for elementary and Special Education students interested in STEM at outreach events and science fairs. In Science Olympiad, I participated in Technical Problem Solving and Compound Machines events. These events gave me a glimpse at mechanical engineering as I built devices with my partner, and how to think creatively and logically, which are key in the science
When one speaks of intelligence or how bright another person is, the often quoted figure is the IQ or intelligence quotient. It is the most often used standard of how smart a person is. This paper shall look at what intelligence tests measure, how the IQ tests measure intelligence and interrogate their history. It shall then apply the tests to school policy and hence evaluate their validity.
Whilst it is understood that this inaccuracy ranges by 4 points from the test subjects score, Simon Whitaker argues that as IQ tests were designed based on average intelligence rather than every ability, the inaccuracy of the test scores for those with a lower IQ is even higher, stating that the score can be as imprecise as 13 points either way (add ref). this of course if of importance as 13 points could mean the difference between an individual being diagnosed as having a learning disability or considered as having a low IQ, and vice
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,
Late in my junior year, around the time mental illness typically tend to surface, I began to think. To really and truly think, to deeply look into myself, my surroundings, and others. I started to challenge every principle imaginable. Obscure yet demanding questions clouded my mind constantly: What influences people into who they are? Do standardized tests accurately depict test taker’s intelligence? Do artists and scientists see the world differently? What is my purpose?
Though I have varied interests, ranging from Linux to microbiology, my focus is now on engineering. This interest in engineering started out from a young age. As any other “stereotypical nerd,” I often disassembled anything that I could put my hands on, be it an RC car or my dad’s TI-8250 printing desk calculator. Later in my educational career however, I realized that I could pursue a profession following my curiosity and love of math and science. To begin this pursuit, I applied to Texas A&M for a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering.
I have always been interested in engineering ever since I was a little kid in science club. How people build such great feats of science such as rockets cars buildings or even a simple bridge has always been a major question to me. Searching for answers, I joined honors physics in my junior year in high school. We started learning about forces and motion and eventually the largest grade we would receive throughout the entire year, the model bridge.
At an early age, I gravitated towards electronics as a means of distraction. However, my curiosity grew immensely when I understood that technology had the potential to solve many real-world problems. My interest in engineering was inspired by my father who devoted his life as a mechanic for twenty years. As an expert in his field, he taught me about the
Intelligence Quotient usually correlates with the ability to learn but that is not accurate. The autistic genius and the math prodigy with ADHD are just two examples that prove that IQ and cognitive ability do not correlate. The plasticity of the brain allows mental deficits circumvented. Subjects with high cognitive abilities but with neurological defects prove that the relationship between cognitive ability and IQ is not a causation relationship. More information about the brain has been collected in the last fifteen years in comparison to the rest of history combined. The significance of IQ and unintuitive correlation between IQ and cognitive ability has yet to be explained: humans with much lower than average IQ have cognitive abilities
I believe that my mathematics and physics skills would make me a proficient engineer. This is proven with my consistent performance in the UKMT, achieving top of year for 5 consecutive years and reaching the final round in the intermediate stage as early as year 10. This has allowed be to demonstrate my flexibility and adaptability, which are both important factors to my strong problem solving skills.
The second factor is school, my teachers always told me about how amazing engineers are, and how did they help building with other scientists our modern world, until I reached high school when I first studied physics as a single subject. My physics teacher was the most to affect me by teaching me about engines and they work and planting the love of mechanics and engineering into my soul which kept growing with me as I grew older.
Race stereotyping has been in existence for a long time now. The idea of color and superiority has had a great precedence in some people for a long time now. Researchers have had to deal with the problem of proving equality. Psychological assessments done on people with color have been greatly polarized. There has been purported bias on the tests done to such individuals, as there is no particular standard measure of conducting these studies. In education, the assertion that black children have poor language skills because of poor childhood backgrounds as a result of the ghetto effect does not hold water. This is a notion most scientist have conflict with as it’s a false assertion based on biased facts. Stereotype influences research regarding the topic; have made most of the studies done seem inefficient.
Engineers are generally particular in the way in which they are formulated to think and react within certain situations. They are developed from childhood and raised to problem-solve, communicate well, pay attention to detail, and to derive differential equations. While these required skills to be an engineer can be learned, they are better and lead to more success when they come naturally and are developed at a younger age, comparable to learning a language. This may not always be the case but luckily for me I have this benefit of developing my skills early. Pushing forward my success as an engineer, I have developed problem solving skills, a heavy influence on the idea of the production of a working and efficient final product, and a natural love for science and learning.