What has level of education got to do with intelligence? Bobby Fischer had an IQ of 190 and was a high school drop out. Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard and became a billionaire without any degrees. Ramanujah created beautiful maths without any formal education, etc
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http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=352658.175Quote from: Ross Erstling on October 26, 2010, 08:06:32 AM
Do you understand that an IQ test measures VARIOUS aspects of COGNITIVE FUNCTION? You are a fool...LOL!
In addition, you seem unable to comprehend the difference between performance IQ, verbal IQ, and FS IQ.
No, IQ tests measure a general facor of intelligence, and the different batteries only use different mechanisms to measure it. Smart people tend to be smart overral and dumb people tend to be dumb overral. A verbal analogies test and a number sequence test both measure the same ability to think, which is the basis of intelligence. Just because one uses a verbal item and the other a mathematical one makes no difference to this. A great writer like Hemingway and a great mathematician like Gauss were overral much smarter at everything than average people. A top medical surgeon is overral much smarter than an average person, and so on. Show me a Harvard math professor who is only brilliant at math and a complete moron at everything else. There isn't, because understanding math on the level necessary to becoming a Harvard math professor requires you to be able to understand a level of complexity that translates into understanding other complex things, like how an engine works, the grammar of foreign languages and how the financial World works(as examples).
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Yes, it was originally posted in Melao's Sigma Test and then posted in the Mensa Journal recently. And yes, believe it or not, only three people have solved it. Even people who got scores above 170 on the Sigma Test and solved questions with an even harder level of complexitygot this question wrong. The oinly reason why you even discovered this is because I gave you the name Petri Widsten. In other case, you wouldn't have found it out. And yes, Petri Widsten presented this question to 200 doctorates from top American universities and none was able to solve it. How am I lying?