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[quote=Anonymous][quote]But, if your tools for measuring intelligence (WPSSI and SAT) are biased isn't the positive SES correlation and positive feedback loop only a self fulfilling and simply self serving prophecy and a measure of "pseudo-intelligence" ?

This is another reason why I wonder whether IQ really measures what we want to measure. Once you start talking about leaders or scientific breakthroughs, I'm not at all sure that the success stories involve people with the highest IQs. I think that an approach that starts from looking at people who have actually accomplished the sorts of things we'd like to see more of and asking what makes them the kind of people they are/enabled them to achieve what they achieved is a more promising approach than positing innate intellectual capacity/talent and trying to test for it and then foster it in the kids who test highest.

Perhaps our attempts to capture intelligence (or "pseudo" intelligence) in a bottle is simply catching those individuals that score highly on the WPSSI and the SAT exam (on a particular day) and we are not really capturing intelligence only people who reach a certain score/bar on the WPSSI and SAT. I wonder how we define or categorise the epoch changing contributions to mankind and the species of average "WPPSI and SAT" performers (or those that do not meet our definition of intelligence). Maybe what we are calling intelligence afterall isn't really the intelligence we are striving to measure rather only a mechanism to get into various schools, colleges and clubs.[/quote]

I agree with the concept of IQ and V oxygen (max) as measures of intellectual and aerobic physiological training, respectively.  Both are dynamic entitities affected by specific tasks and training as well as deconditioning.

I therefore support the concept of providing appropriate challenge and stimulation for all on the playground and in the classroom!
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