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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Raw intelligence can be characterized by tests like the WISC the first time the WISC is taken. Perhaps, as we learn more about the brain, an MRI will tell about raw intelligence.

The way I look at it is true genius is the outside the box thinkers. That is, the people that look at a problem another way. Albert Einstein though about what it would be like to travel on a light wave. That was a revolutionary though pattern.[/quote]

I guess we are now back to [b]test scores[/b] as a measure and the instrument of "raw" intelligence.  Unfortunately, preparation can raise test scores.  This can be test prep or continuous prep with longstandi extensive reading, writing and problem solving.  "Raw" intelligence is therefore malleable and plastic if you are using test scores (e.g., WISC) to measure it?  I remind you, if you read the literature and science in the 1970s about the aptitude SAT test the experts told us that this aptitude test was a measure of raw intelligence and you could not improve your test scores with preparation.  Are you willing to put skin in the game and claim the same lack of malleability and plasticity for the WISC?

Preparation for[b] all[/b] tests can affect the test score even if you choose to fly under the raider of cheating by reading, writing and doing problem solving and critical thinking well before the test date.  This to a large degree explains why high SES begets higher scores.  I wonder how kids in Papua New Guinea, rural Asia and Africa, New Zealand, Russia would perform on the WISC?  Conversely, I wonder how Americans would perform on their instruments of "raw" intelligence?

Perhaps "raw intelligence" is simply confined to the American speaking people of the globe since they likely will perform the highest on the WISC even if they don't think outside the box.[/quote]

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