why?
I think after a certain age general knowledge and problem solving abilities become commonplace. Anything the test can test falls within the 'realm of the known' so you are measuring a person's potential for greatness within a box.
I think of the scene in the jerk when he's at the carnival...great scene...he has to guess your weight within a pound or two...if not you win a prize... the window from which you can pick your prize and the window keeps shrinking...
back to the action...here's the dialog:
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"Now, what do I win?So funny...I always loved that scene, but i've only seen it once...don't know why it has stuck?!
Anything in this general area right in here.
Anything below the stereo and
on this side of the bicentennial glasses.
Anything between the ashtrays
and the thimble.
Anything in this three inches
right in here, in this area.
That includes the Chiclets,
but not the erasers."
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anyway...real IQ finds a prize you really want with new connections made with in the 'chicklet window'...to think creatively...IQ tests don't let you make new connections...you have to pick the chicklets...
that said the only way to do anything interesting is to make new connections between already existing concepts, ideas and values.
