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Intelligence Quotients: science or pop pyschology?

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02-21-2007 5:23 PM 		Reply to: Message 3 by PaulK
02-20-2007 6:51 PM

I was once tested by Mensa, for admittance.
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They used Ravens Progressive matrices
Raven's Progressive Matrices - Wikipedia
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These are supposedly made so as to be blind to social circumstances and schooling.
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But as I was computer science, math and philosphy student at the time, I had a lot of training in logic.
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And when "guessing", I could use words for the relations between the symbols.
I would think "You and the twirlies, xor the straight lines and or the dots"
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I passed the test, and though I am an excellent problem solver in some narrow fields, I am just a big idiot in many more
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My one experience with IQ test was not blind to schooling!
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