Do any intelligence tests exist that directly measure ability to learn, instead of what one already knows?
You know, test a subject to determine where their skills end, then measure what it takes to add to those skills?
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The_Metatron wrote:Do any intelligence tests exist that directly measure ability to learn, instead of what one already knows?
You know, test a subject to determine where their skills end, then measure what it takes to add to those skills?
Agrippina wrote:Is intelligence genetic? Does having high intelligence mean that your offspring are likely to be more intelligent than their peers? If those intelligent offspring aren't exposed to education, wouldn't they demonstrate the same levels of learnedness that other uneducated people display? In a post-apocalyptic world, where formal education doesn't exist, wouldn't survival skills trump book-learning? Then also, can't people with average intelligence still be educated to function at a higher level than more intelligent, but less-educated people? It's interesting to discuss this because of how poor our (my country's) education standards are, where passing rates are dropped to include the lowest-performing students, making our school graduates not terribly-well educated by comparison with other school-leavers in the outside world.
Cito di Pense wrote:Agrippina wrote:Is intelligence genetic? Does having high intelligence mean that your offspring are likely to be more intelligent than their peers? If those intelligent offspring aren't exposed to education, wouldn't they demonstrate the same levels of learnedness that other uneducated people display? In a post-apocalyptic world, where formal education doesn't exist, wouldn't survival skills trump book-learning? Then also, can't people with average intelligence still be educated to function at a higher level than more intelligent, but less-educated people? It's interesting to discuss this because of how poor our (my country's) education standards are, where passing rates are dropped to include the lowest-performing students, making our school graduates not terribly-well educated by comparison with other school-leavers in the outside world.
All other things being equal, an intelligent person is more capable of learning survival skills than someone less intelligent, if that's what interests him. That's a definition of intelligence, but you're welcome to come up with another. It doesn't mean a person won't simply be more interested in something else, so the bear eats him. He has to learn from the tribe what the real essentials are. In a pre-apocalyptic world, nobody can tell anyone else what the essentials are, so you have to figure them out from context. Intelligence helps or hurts, depending on how apocalyptic things are, mainly because the more intelligent you are, the more things are likely to interest you. Or maybe someone will friend you on faceplant.
Agrippina wrote:Is intelligence genetic?
The_Metatron wrote:Do any intelligence tests exist that directly measure ability to learn, instead of what one already knows?
You know, test a subject to determine where their skills end, then measure what it takes to add to those skills?
The_Metatron wrote:Do any intelligence tests exist that directly measure ability to learn, instead of what one already knows?
You know, test a subject to determine where their skills end, then measure what it takes to add to those skills?
Scarlett and Ironclad wrote:Campermon,...a middle aged, middle class, Guardian reading, dad of four, knackered hippy, woolly jumper wearing wino and science teacher.
scott1328 wrote:Speaking on my own experience, every week or so I go to this one website and take their online intelligence test, and on most days, the score is better. Clearly, therefore, sntelligence can't not be declining.
Some day soon I'll crack the 100 mark!
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