...When we think of those with high IQ scores, we often equate them to being successful humans. In other words, the higher the IQ, the more successful the person. Malcolm Gladwell and I disagree. Gladwell believes that “the relationship between success and IQ works only up to a point. Once someone has reached an IQ of somewhere around 120, having additional IQ points doesn’t seem to translate into any measurable real-world advantage.” Gladwell supports this claim by referencing the studies of Terman and Liam Hudson. Often times these high IQ scores are met with a placement in the infamous Gifted and Talented education program. Although I agree with Gladwell and Hudson on the idea that additional IQ points don’t give those with an IQ over 120 any...
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...in Europe, at least. This from the Times:- WE ARE ABOUT AS SMART AS WE’RE GOING TO GET, SAYS IQ PIONEER * Test Results are starting to level out * Morality skills are the next step It is a common refrain, repeated in response to every new television reality show and every bumper crop of school exam results: society is dumbing down. Scientists have long argued the opposite, pointing to the now widely accepted “Flynn effect”, which shows that over the past century average IQ scores have improved across the developed world, irrespective of class or creed. Now the man who first observed this effect, the psychologist James Flynn, has made another observation: intelligence test scores have stopped rising. Far from indicating that now we really are getting dumber, this may suggest that certain of our cognitive functions have reached — or nearly reached — the upper limits of what they will ever achieve, Professor Flynn believes. In other words, we can’t get much better at the mental tasks we are good at, no matter how hard we try. If we are to make any further progress, we will have to start exercising different parts of our brain, particularly the parts controlling language acquisition and empathy, according to Professor Flynn, an emeritus professor at the University of Otago in New Zealand. So a couple of observations about this. First, the Flynn Effect has been tossed into more IQ arguments than Arthur Jensen has hairs on his eminent head - most always, of course, by the environmentalist...
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...“ It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.” –Henry Ford Some may consider those to be strong words, words that many believe to be true. This quote is found in the book that I will be introducing written by author Robert Kiyosaki titled “ Increase Your Financial IQ” the quote sets the pace for what this book stands for: Financial Education. Robert Kiyosaki’s objective through out the book is to illustrate for the reader the major differences between how wealthy people think about and deal with money vs. how the middle class and poor deal with money. He outlines his thoughts in what he calls, the Five Financial IQs. According to Kiyosaki it is not money but knowledge that makes one rich (pg 200). Robert Kiyosaki was born April 8, 1947 to a middle class family. Kiyosaki is an investor, businessman, self-help author and motivational speaker. Along with being a successful author, he is also the creator of the Rich Dad brand, as well as a real estate mogul owning millions of dollars in real estate assets. Kiyosaki is best known for his “Rich Dad Poor Dad” book and other materials published and found on the top 10 best-seller lists of The Wall Street Journal, USA Today and the New York Times. Before becoming a best selling author he began his career as a salesman for the Xerox Corporation a company that sells copy machines. In his popular book “Rich Dad Poor...
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...moral principles or beliefs. Ethics are the standards known as right and wrong, and help to guide humans on what they consider to be right and wrong. The story "Flowers for Algernon" is about a thirty two year old man named, Charlie Gordon. Charlie has an IQ of 68, and undergoes a surgery to triple his IQ. Charlie Gordon's doctors did not act ethically when they performed the surgery to make him smarter. Charlie's doctors neglected to inform him of all of the risks involved. The doctors neglected to inform Charlie that his improved IQ could not be permanent, or even that his life would not be the same after the surgery. Charlie was very happy when his IQ got better, but did not seem to understand why his IQ returned to its previous level. One of the first indications that his IQ could return to its previous level, was when Algernon's IQ returned to is original level. According to the article about the five steps to ethical decision making, step one is to gather all of the facts. If Charlie's doctors had done adequate research, they should have found that the results are not always permanent, and quickly...
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...Is Paris still cool? Hell yeah! (But not for the reasons you think) By Sheena McKenzie, for CNN February 19, 2014 -- Updated 1356 GMT (2156 HKT) STORY HIGHLIGHTS * Paris isn't the most fashionable city in the world. But here's why it's the coolest * Forget tired cliches, Paris is about discovering hidden gems away from tourists * Top tips: Partying in derelict mansions, or watching indie films in antique pagodas Editor's note: Fashion Season: Paris takes you behind the scenes of the Paris catwalks and beyond, exploring the French capital's most stylish hidden corners. The show airs Monday 24 to Friday 28 February on CNN International, with daily reports in 'News Stream' at 1300 GMT and 'Connect the World' at 2000 GMT. (CNN) -- So New York thinks it's the most stylish city on the planet? Sure, the Big Apple was named top dog in the latest rankings of fashion capitals around the world, pushing Paris into second place, and London into third. But can you party in an abandoned Rothschild mansion in New York? Can you watch indie films in an antique Japanese pagoda? Can you chillax on the beach in the heart of the city? Nope? Well, mes amis, you can in Paris. Whatever the world's fashion dignitaries might say, the City of Light is much more than stripy t-shirts and the Eiffel Tower. In fact, you'd be hard pressed to find a single Parisian jostling with the tourists atop that particular feat of architecture, says culture blogger Vanessa Grall. "Paris doesn't have...
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...To begin with, both Warwick and Flynn challenge the foundation of intelligence. Warwick establishes and develops his claim by stating that all IQ tests are subjective. First, he addresses the possible misunderstandings on the concept of intelligence. Warwick states, “Any attempts to define intelligence that do not involve identifying specially valued cultural attainments must fail (Warwick 199).”Oftentimes, humans see themselves being on top of the ladder simply because they arrange and connect every aspect according to their own standards and values. However, it is in fact improbable and pointless to compare the mental and physical abilities between two species, except referring to specific assignments. Warwick successfully clears up the assumption...
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...having the ability and being capable of acquiring and applying knowledge and skills. A person’s intelligence can be measured by an IQ (Intelligence Quotient) test. An IQ test measures a person’s mental performance in fluid intelligence, memory, processing speed, and quantitative reasoning. An Intelligence Quotient is a number representing a person’s reasoning ability compared to the statistical average for their age. The most common and most accurate IQ tests are the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale and the Stanford-Binet test. The Stanford-Binet test was the very first IQ test, designed by French psychologist, Alfred Binet, in the early 1900’s. The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale was developed soon after by David Wechsler, an American psychologist. Although there are many other online IQ tests available today, they are not as accurate as the official Wechsler and Stanford-Binet tests. Ninety-five percent of people have an IQ between seventy and one hundred thirty. A lot of people are either just above one hundred thirty or just below seventy. Only five percent of the population have either extremely high IQs, above one hundred forty, or extremely low IQs, below seventy. If you have an IQ of one hundred forty or above, you are considered a “genius” and are eligible to join Mensa, the largest and the oldest IQ society in the world. Mensa was founded in England in 1946 as a non-political society independent of all racial and religious influences. Its original...
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...every person and every parents in this society has been curious of since the dawn of human civilization. Malcolm Gladwell's chapter two and three, “The Trouble with Geniuses, Part 1 and 2”, of his best selling book “Outliers” tries to further justify his idea that there are various unseen factors are at play that can determine if a person becomes successful or not in his life. With these chapters, he takes a deeper look into “The Matthew Effect” with the help of two so called geniuses Christopher Langan and Robert Oppenheimer. Much like previous chapters “The Matthew Effect” and “ 10,000 Hour Rule” , Gladwell's ideas can be considered fairly paradoxical even to this day. Like what Gladwell says, today's society still believes that a high IQ level or the status Geniuses is a sure way a person achieves fame, wealth and success. To dis-spell this general view, he compares each Christopher Langan and Robert Oppenheimer's lives from birth to adulthood and how each of them differentiate from their family background, how they were raised, what they expect of the society and an authoritative figure, how they they dealt with any obstacles....
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...third consecutive best-selling nonfiction book, following Tipping Point (2000) and Blink (2005). While Tipping Point focuses on the individual’s ability to effect change in society, Outliers deals with the cultural and societal forces that give an individual a chance. Through a series of case studies, Gladwell insists that we have all too easily bought into the myth that successful people are self-made; instead, he says they “are invariably the beneficiaries of hidden advantages and extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies that allow them to learn and work hard and make sense of the world in ways others cannot.” Gladwell defines an outlier as a person out of the ordinary “who doesn't fit into our normal understanding of achievement.” According to Gladwell, great men and women are made from having success with ability, opportunities to become successful with 10,000 of practice, IQ not being the only thing needed, and that everything comes down to generation, family history, and demographics of society. Gladwell is able to support them and give great examples on how things work out with a person’s life. “The Matthew Effect” examines opportunity as a function of timing. Canadian hockey players born closer to the magic birthday of January 1 reap advantages that compound over time. Computer programmers Bill Joy and Bill Gates, both born in the 1950s, have taken advantage of the relative-age effect to become industry giants in the 1980s. Gladwell claims that Mozart...
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...Problems with IQ and Psychometric Assessment When diagnosing a child’s learning difficulties the IQ test and other forms of Psychometric Assessment continue to be used across the UK and elsewhere as an indication of a child's ‘intelligence’ and continue to be a key factor in special school placement. Colin Newton Inclusive Educational Psychologist Co Founder Inclusive Solutions December 2009 We have to provide an IQ score so that the CAHMS team can allocate their resources. They keep asking us.... (Principal Educational Psychologist - 2008- Unnamed UK Local Authority) How sad that what follows still needs to be written in 2008! Perhaps we all need a little reminder... The story so far... Intelligence testing began in earnest in France, when in 1904 psychologist Alfred Binet was commissioned by the French government to find a method to differentiate between children who were ‘intellectually normal and those who were inferior’. The purpose was to put the latter into special schools where they would receive more individual attention. In this way the disruption they caused in the education of intellectually normal children could be avoided. Sound a familiar argument? Such thinking was a natural development from Darwinism and the Eugenics movement that dates back to Sir Francis Galton in 1869 that famous scientific polymath who promoted the idea that for society to prosper the ‘weakest’ should not be allowed...
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...IQ-achievement discrepancy model is the approach that has been used by school psychologists to diagnose those with learning disorders; however, research has shown that the model is not very efficient (Restori, 2009). It diagnoses children with SLD (Specific Learning Disorders) after they have already showed symptoms of the disorder (Restori, 2009). This delays the treatment of the learning disorder and delays the placement of a child in a better facility that is more adept in dealing with the specific learning disorder. The IQ-discrepancy model is performed by “establishing a discrepancy between intellectual/cognitive ability and academic achievement, identifying the existence of a psychological/cognitive processing deficit, determining if...
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...a 37 year old with a mental disability and an IQ of 68. Charlie works as a janitor and although he has quite a low IQ, he has a good attitude about changing his life, and to do whatever it takes for him to get smarter. Charlie goes to Miss Kinnian’s class for slow adults to get better at spelling and writing and potentially get smarter. Miss Kinnian teaches literacy skills to mentally retarded adults because she believes that being mentally disabled doesn’t make you less of a Human. Charlie and Miss Kinnian start out the story with a teacher-student relationship, but soon, it becomes a little more than back, but as the story reaches it’s...
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...Volume 10 Number 6 June 4, 2007 Black Intellectual Genocide: An Essay Review of IQ and the Wealth of Nations Girma Berhanu Göteborg University Sweden Lynn, Richard & Vanhanen, Tatu. (2002). IQ and the Wealth of Nations. Westport, CT: Praeger. Citation: Berhanu, Girma. (2007). Black intellectual genocide: An essay review of IQ and the Wealth of Nations. Education Review, 10(6). Retrieved [date] from http://edrev.asu.edu/essays/v10n6index.html. Abstract I review the book IQ and the Wealth of Nations, written by Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen. I critique the authors’ major assertion that a significant part of the gap between rich and poor countries is due to differences in national intelligence. The authors claim that they have evidence that differences in national IQ account for substantial variation in per capita income and growth of a nation. This essay review debunks their assumptions that intellectual and income differences between nations stem from genetic differences. This critique provides an extended review of the research literature that argues against these assumptions and presents a different picture from that presented by Lynn and Vanhanen about the concept of intelligence, what IQ measures and does not measure. The essay exposes the racist, sexist, and antihuman nature of the research tradition in which the authors anchored their studies and the deep methodological flaws and theoretical assumptions that appear in their book. The low standards of scholarship...
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...IQ And Mathematical Learning In the article Motivation, Not IQ, Matters Most for Learning New Math Skills, psychologists study math abilities and habits of thirty-five hundred German students from the fifth to tenth grade. Students’ mathematical abilities were evaluated each year using standardized testing. In addition to this students were given an IQ test and surveys that questioned about their attitudes toward math. As the title of this report suggests they found that IQ was not the main determining factor in how well the student’s math abilities grew. Instead IQ was found to be a predictor of initial math skill and studying and motivation where found to be predictors of growth in mathematical abilities. These findings came as a surprise to the researchers who predicted that intelligence measured by IQ would be a strong predictor of mathematical abilities. This article encompasses the main findings of the researchers into a summarization of their findings. This research in this study is credible and believable but the article leaves out some essential information about the findings that could strengthen or weaken the researcher’s argument and allow the reader to develop their own opinion. In this study the independent variable is the student’s IQ and the dependent variable is the student’s mathematical scores/abilities. IQ tests have long been used as a system to measure the intelligence of the testee. Standardized mathematical testing is an accurate method of measuring...
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...LLC Citation: B-402349 (Comp. Gen), 2010 CPD P 59 (Comp. Gen), 2010 WL 893517 Date: March 15, 2010 2. Key Facts - On August 24, 2007, five indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contracts were awards on the basis of full and open competition to Blackwater Lodge, Lockheed Martin Integrated systems, Northrop Grumman/TASC, Raytheon Technical Services, and ARINC Engineering Services. These contracts were awarded pursuant to request for proposals No. W9113M-06-R-0014, issued by the US Army. The scope of work for the ID/IQ contracts was limited to providing the “necessary goods and services required by the Counter Narcoterrorism Technology Program Office to support the Counter Narcoterrorism mission.” There are three “program performance areas”: technology development and application; training, operations, and logistics support; and program and executive support. The performance work statement indicated that these services would be provided worldwide but, the current locations would be Columbia and Afghanistan. The performance work statement also specifically noted that the goods and services provided would outfit and support counter-narcoterrorism units such as the Counter Narcotics Police in Afghanistan and the Counter Narcotics Brigade in Columbia. The solicitation for these ID/IQ contracts included three sample task orders. Sample tasks were (1) develop high resolution short-wave infrared cameras for surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft, (2) provide intelligence...
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