Can you think of 100 different uses for a sock? How would you cope with glasses that turn everything upside down? What's your emotional intelligence? Can you create a work of art in ten minutes?
Horizon takes seven people who are some of the highest flyers in their field - a musical prodigy, a quantum physicist, an artist, a dramatist, an RAF fighter pilot, a chess grandmaster and a Wall Street trader. Each is put through a series of tests to discover: who is the most intelligent?
The principle way that we measure intelligence, the IQ test, remains popular and convenient. Yet most psychologists agree that it only tells half the story... at most. Where they disagree is how to measure intelligence, for the simple reason that the experts still don't know exactly what it is.
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fireflysays...heh, if only they watched Ladybug's post, they could've solved the bottle one!
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krumzysays...great post.
westysays...the kid in this is a right dick shows how although if you are realy inteligent u might be capable of grate things however u can still be a utter prick. annyone that belives there own bulshit shud be put down.
yaroslavvbsays...It's pointless to ask "is this a better way to measure intelligence" since intelligence could mean different things (ie, David Beckham with "football intelligence")
Instead they could ask -- is there a better test to do what IQ test is being used for right now? I can see three ways it's being used off the top of my head: IQ-test-like questions in technical interviews for engineers, determining fitness to stand trial, determining which children to place in special education programs
IQ-tests have stuck around largely unchanged, and that's because they are good for what they are used for. Who cares if the kid has high emotional intelligence (except making them feel better), but sucks at Stanford-Binet...they'll still be better off in a special education program for low IQ-scorers
Mi1lersays...First thought that comes to mind in dealing with glasses that turn things upside down in my opinion the best move would just be to close my eyes.
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