intelligence
Title: intelligence
Category: /Science & Technology
Details: Words: 711 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
intelligence
Category: /Science & Technology
Details: Words: 711 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
The task of trying to quantify a person's intelligence has been a
goal of psychologists since before the beginning of this century. The
Binet-Simon scales were first proposed in 1905 in Paris, France and various
sorts of tests have been evolving ever since. One of the important
questions that always comes up regarding these tools is what are the tests
really measuring? Are they measuring a person's intelligence? Their
ability to perform well on standardized tests?
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good indicators for a person's overall
intelligence, but as their use has shown, they are extremely helpful in
making predictions about how a person will perform in an academic setting.
Perhaps the problem comes in the name intelligence tests when it is
obvious this is not what they really are. The modern IQ test definitely
has its applications in today's society but should be be used to quantify a
person's overall intelligence by any means