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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (171891)10/4/2005 4:54:04 PM
From: Sun Tzu  Read Replies (4) of 281500
 
If I recall correctly, Howard Gardner estimated that fully 25% of the population is gifted (i.e. is in the upper 15% of the talent pool) in at least one of the intelligence categories. You can look at his research into learning and school system in the book The Disciplined Mind : Beyond Facts Standardized Tests K 12 educ that Every Child Deserves (ISBN 0140296247).

I've had formal IQ tests 3 times, depending on which results you believe, there is only one more person at my level or better in a sample of 1000, 1500, or 3000 people! And yet, there have been so many times that I have been amazed at my own stupidity. There have been an even greater number of times that people who were not considered as "smart" pointed out solutions or insights that I had been oblivious to. And then there were even more times that during a conversations someone led me to a great solution without articulating it, which IMO meant they knew it in their guts but just could not articulate it.

So I have come to conclude that IQ tests and the like are rather useless. We live in a world where the biggest problems facing us are not solved by high IQ but rather by empathy and good ethics. I'd rather be in a company of decent loving people than a group of arrogant self indulging mensa members.
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