Hard Talk About IQ Tests!The supporters of the IQ tests have data sheets to prove their claims and rejected the biases of the skeptics about IQ tests. Whatever side of argument you adopt there is no doubt one of the biggest controversies of the psychological disciplines. The critics highlight the following issues: Race and IQ Tests
There is no doubt that most of the researches conducted about IQ tests were either sponsored or supported by the racist organizations and their followers. The biggest object on the famous Bell Curve is the same. The critics also object that the IQ tests are designed by taking samples from the specific groups or people. However, once they are built, they are used for all peoples have different backgrounds, races and socio economic factors. This way the IQ tests show different level of intelligence in different races and people. The pro-tests claim that it is merely a correlation not the fact as observed by some scientists. Intelligence is not sacred trusts of any one-race. All the human races have almost equal IQ level but there are a few exceptions as well. A lot of research has been committed to the extent and potential causes of racial group differences in IQ. Intelligence Tests and HealthSome critics object that IQ tests measure intelligence as a static object and describe it with factor ‘g’. They think that a number of factors can make a major cognitive damage, primarily if that happens during maternity and childhood. Such kind of impairment may be perpetual or partially compensated for by later development. More than a few adverse causes may aggregate to grow a bigger impairment. Gale, CR and Taylor, MD has arrived at conclusions about the good and bad effects of different kinds of foods and eating habits on the intelligence. For these reasons the Developed nations have realized several health policies regarding foods and toxins that can influence cognitive intelligence.Intelligence Tests and GenderIt is not merely issue of the backward eastern countries or dying religions, as some people claim. Some critics object that IQ tests are framed by keeping the men in view and ignore the gender factor for one reason or the other. They even name some math IQ tests which always show the women less intelligent than their counterparts.However, men and women have quite similar average IQ despite significant differences in subtest scores. A few studies affirm that adult males do better than women on average by 3-4 IQ points. Some other studies reveal that women perform better on tests of memory and verbal technique. Male scores show a higher discrepancy than female as men are identified with both very high and very low IQs. Binet’s Views About IQ TestsAlfred Binet had different views about IQ test than common people believe. He believed that IQ scales were not fit for measuring intelligence. He neither invented the term intelligence quotient nor held up its numerical expression. He said that the scale does not allow the measurement of intelligence, because intellectual qualities are not superposable, and hence can't be appraised or quantified like linear surfaces are measured.He asserted that with right remedial training programs most of the students having lower IQ, regardless of backdrop could become equal and perform well in schools with the students of higher IQs. Binet believed that intelligence can be increased. Professor Stephen Jay Gould about IQ TestsHome Site Map More About IQ Tests
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