Yes, I notice some severe lack of the basic connection between education and IQ-tests.
However, totally the norm in especially USA.
Just to give some examples, which are fairly contemporary in USA, about and from
that recent book "the Bell Curve"
- IQ test should be, by definition, independent on age
- however, every 2-3 year the tests has to re-tweaked to result in that magic proof, that
they form an (Bernoullian) Gaussian curve (bell)
- and still, among those few nations who did systematic IQ tests, and re-checked them,
every new generation scores appr 10 points higher, with smaller proportional differences
between younger and older kids in the same family.
Funny stuff, these things are actually kind of mentioned in this greatest contemporary
murrican book speaking for the future and goal of USA education, but only as little footnotes in
the appendixes.
Just as funny, I would find it very difficult to take an IQ-test, except by going to some anglo-murrican
nations, or ordering one by mail-order via the discovery or shopping channel, with an optional
Ph.D. degree for another $20.
That is why it is so funny..
Ilmarinen |
