Thoughts about iq tests.

 Hi, i am interested in cognitive psychology and questions about intelligence and iq testing. I am also interested in questions about creativity and i would like to share some of my thoughts with you.

It is difficult to measure intelligence, iq test might be one method to measure intelligence, but then ihave a lot of questions about what an iq test measures and i understand why my thoughts are not welcome among the iq test followers.

There are also famous scientists who have not had a very high score on iq tests and their "low" iq scores have also been discussed.

You have for example:

 Francis Crick who scored 115 on an iq test,he won the nobel prize

 Richard Feynman his iq score was 126 and he won the nobel prize too

William Schockley scored 125 on an iq test

Luis Alvarez his iq score was below 135 and he failed to qualify for Terman study

Andy Warhol scored 86 on an iq test. He must have been a highly intelligent business man to get so much paid for his paintings. He has painted some of the most expensive paintings of all time.

You might score 160 on an iq test and in spite of that you are not able to solve complicated mathematical problems. You might have a high iq score and you might be lousy at math. It is not a correct conclusion to say that mathematics is not logical. If you score very high on an iq test, you are probably  very good at puzzles and logical games. An iq test measures a spesific logical field in your brain, but for example Mensas IQ test does not measure mathematical logic. I like mensas IQ test, it is very clear and they do not ask a lot of silly questions.

Then i have read about people who have scored below average on mensas iq test, my personal thought about that is, if you score low, it does not mean that you are mentally retarded, you have just had bad luck and you are probably not used to those kind of questions. Mentally retarded humans live often in institutions with daily caregivers and nurses and if this is not your situation  and you are able to drive a car and if you have an advanced vocabulary or if you have a good command of a complicated language or if you are able to perform something else, which is demanding, then you are not mentally retarded, in spite of a bad iq test result. Therefor some psychologists also have made a list about what you are able to practice with the iq you have.
 So do not worry, be happy.

This means that you do not have to be intelligent to be good at maths, according to mensa and then they give a very strange explanation for that. 

 And then...

 If A has a higher iq than B, why does B win all the chess games over A? Complicated questions

  

And then i have a few comments about these creativity tests.

How du they measure creativity, the creativity tests are not good enough. The creativity tests do not measure imgination and an artist has to use imagination to create something new, how do you measure imagination? Imagination is to abstract to measure. Yes if you work as a business manager you have to find creative ways, to sell more, but an artists creativity is different from a business man`s. Andy Warhol was an exception.

I think i will find time to compose today, i am glad for that.

Ciao, Johanna