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Is the Wechsler IQ test actually indictitive of intelligence (specifcally the vocabulary sub-test)?


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IQ tests are indicative of the ability to do IQ tests. They are only meaningful to specialists who understand what the tests are measuring. Joe/Josephine Public should avoid them for the reason just stated.

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Aren't IQ tests still used precisely because people who do well at IQ tests also tend to do well at other cognitively demanding tasks (and therefore, are a good predictor of general intellectual ability)?

 

If you carelessly breezed through the test and scored 140 you are almost certainly smarter than someone who put the hardest work possible and still scored only 100 for example.

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Aren't IQ tests still used precisely because people who do well at IQ tests also tend to do well at other cognitively demanding tasks (and therefore, are a good predictor of general intellectual ability)?

 

If you carelessly breezed through the test and scored 140 you are almost certainly smarter than someone who put the hardest work possible and still scored only 100 for example.

Yes, AT that type of test measuring those types of parameters. Intelligence has many faces, not just the ones they measure. Believe it or not, someone with an IQ of 140 can be thick in some activities or lack commonsense; it's not a global metric. It can be seriously deflating to a person that does not excel in the parameters measured by IQ itests yet they may be fabulously artistic, articulate, linguistic etc which they don't measure. That's why people who are not savvy with them should avoid self-testing with them. It's a bit like prescribing yourself with pharmaceutical drugs without the training.

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Aren't IQ tests still used precisely because people who do well at IQ tests also tend to do well at other cognitively demanding tasks (and therefore, are a good predictor of general intellectual ability)?

 

If you carelessly breezed through the test and scored 140 you are almost certainly smarter than someone who put the hardest work possible and still scored only 100 for example.

 

IQ tests does not cover every thing.

 

IQ covers spatial thinking ability, pattern recognition, reasoning skills, the ability to solve problems and use logic, ability to complete sentences or recognize words when letters have been rearranged or removed, verbal, shapes and how you do at math and planning.

 

It does not cover want you know like book knowledge. So you could be walking Wikipedia but score really low on IQ test. The IQ test does not cover book knowledge.

 

You could be really good at music or skill in some thing it does not cover that.

 

Only thing is if you do well on pattern recognition,spatial and shapes on your IQ you be really good at computer graphics ,drawing, painting or art but if you do really bad on pattern recognition, spatial and shapes on your IQ test you do really bad with computer graphics ,drawing,painting or art.

 

Some people with little to no training are just really good at drawing. The images and drawing just come to life in side the persons mind.

 

I have seen many gifted people when comes to drawing with little to no training. Other people are really terrible at drawing.

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