Intelligent on paper, dumb in life.

Discussion in 'Human Science' started by Yes, Nov 18, 2003.

  1. ripleofdeath Registered Senior Member

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    one thing that bothers me a great deal is the seemingly consistant and continuose ravonouse behaviour to classify
    people into certain conditions
    i hold some small hope in the fact that neurological science is slowly getting to better understand these types of things

    unfortunenately there are a few common situations that
    curtail certain "high I.Q people

    (i hate the word I.Q as it is a test developed for finding a good accountant or mathmatician)
    the I.Q tests are total CRAP and astound me how insulting they can be to ask people to take them seriousely

    a couple of thoughts .. try and think of what number of teachers you have come across that try to engage the class and inspire their students

    then think of this often used and very REAL term
    "it is not what-you-know, ... BUT ... WHO-you-know!"
    that gets you the jobs and chances to realy excell in life work environment
    with the exception of those who may be in the top 2% on a national scale
    who are then touted as being amoung the top 10-15% and so the bullshit is spread and the figures adapted to suit the most comfortable picture

    if you are not aware of this as a working fact of life then i would question you on what you consider to be real intellegence

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  3. Yes Registered Senior Member

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    That's true. So to measure a persons total intelligence( if that is even possible) there must be several test covering different areas of intelligence, emotional, social, maybe even physical and spiritual.
     
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  5. zoobyshoe Registered Member

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    True. The IQ test measures skills that fall in a limited range. Doing well in that range is meaningless if you don't have all kinds of other life skills to support the ones in this range. A person can succeed exceptionally well in a large number of fields while, at the same time, not testing particularly well in the "IQ" range.
     
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  7. ripleofdeath Registered Senior Member

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    Yes
    good point about the physical test
    the one thing that is often over looked is the ability to deal with
    situations that require a certain amount of spatial and interactive ability
    while applying it inside a working example requiring other aspects like maths and reasoning powers
    so far i have only met one or maybe two people who could do that

    zoobyshoe
    one thing that comes to mind from what you mention is the statistics regarding Entrapeneurs
    i have heard that some where in the range of 60-70 % of the good ones never finnished highschool
    (did not graduate)
    and yet by most peoples interpretation of high I.Q.. they must have one because they have managed to make a great deal of money using what resources that have been avalible to them

    what use to make me almost cry is the fact that most of the higher intellegence kids get missed in the schooling system and often end with a lesson of being another sheep in the dumb flock
    is better than being a victim
    now i am more inclined to beleive that most people are not ready for such things that can be achived through the greater intellegence if all the teaching methods were constructively designed around education rather than facilitation of intellectualy retarded working class job placement.
     

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