Good IQ tests should measure aspects of visual-spatial processing and auditory processing, as well as short-term memory, and processing speed.
This dovetails somewhat with what I was saying. They’re basically measuring our RAM, CPU and I/O. I’d still love to see a concrete example. I will google.
When I took the IQ test in HS I completely aced all the visual stuff, but struggled the most on the word problems. I’m definitely a visual thinker. In computer programming when I try to learn a new concept it’s just gibberish to me until I work through a few examples and get a visual in my head. Then it flips to obvious common sense. I stalled out in physics when the math got so heavy I couldn’t visualize it anymore.
Rioter’s lawyer: a lot of the comments, as viewed in context, are really sort of misguided political hyperbole. Given the political divide these days, there is a lot of hyperbole
There is a lot of hyperbole. A lot. Maybe a quick mental health evaluation is in order. Counselor, who does your client think is the current president of the United States?
I don’t know much about IQ tests and certainly don’t know the scores of people I know, but I’ve always thought a lot of it comes down to something like how much you can juggle simultaneously - how much RAM you have. And, I know people who are quicker than I am at various things and probably would test higher, but I’ve never felt like I couldn’t be patient with myself, avoiding giving up in frustration, and figure out whatever the subject is, although I might forget it pretty quickly and have to go through the process again if it comes up. And I think most people can do the same with various degrees of patience required.
I was quite precocious at a young age, but it was kind of a farce. I had near photographic memory as a kid. We would have Bible contests (lol) and I could read a whole chapter just once and repeat verses line by line. It made everyone call me a genius but I don’t think I was really much smarter than the average bright kid, I just remembered literally everything. I could close my eyes and see the entire page of a textbook and just write down the answer on my test, it was almost like cheating. It made me an extraordinarily lazy student and that carried into adulthood.
Now in my 30’s I have to write everything down that happens, or I am worthless. Don’t do weed kids
I don’t know if it was the weed, but I think late 30s is when I noticed the mental decline.
I’m just a half a step slower, which isn’t all bad, because sometimes I’ll catch a mistake that way, but even accounting for that I’m still past my prime. Also my memory and recall is worse. For example with respect to trivia, I still know most of the same answers, but just a half step slower to recall in a lot of cases.
I think that’s when chess players start to lose a step around that time as well as far as how fast they can calculate multiple positions, so it’s probably just a biological certainty. Maybe the weed got you there a couple of years faster, but maybe not.
I have a poor memory, so my abilities in school came from being able to fill in the gaps in my knowledge on the fly. I would have to re-derive equations quickly during math and physics test.
I had to take these tests for a job I applied for recently. They’re not hard, but I wouldn’t say it’s super easy to get them all right in the time allotted. I feel like when I was 25 I would score 100% on this stuff but at 43.5 I struggle to finish on time.
This describes me to a T, minus the weed part. Never needed to study through 12th grade, then struggled in college because I didn’t have the study skills I needed. And I’m still problematically lazy years later. Maybe it’s why we all found our way to poker.
I think Einstein was a fan of not memorizing. I taught a supplementary class for a physicist who claimed he would go so far as to re-derive the quadratic formula. I rolled my eyes. Ain’t nobody got time for that. Memory is a fantastic shortcut. The balance is different for everybody.
I got straight A’s almost until senior year when I started smoking herb and then almost didn’t graduate because I skipped so many days lmao. College was a party scene bleh.
Very similar to all of you in high scholl and college. I.e. smart plus lazy.
Last year i started my masters in energy stuff. Got pretty heavy in engineering, maths, thermodynamics etc. I did humanities in uni, so haven’t got background in most of this.
Im definitely a bit slower at 38, but im now structured, conscientious and spend time learning how to learn as well as filling in all the background knowledge and theory. Its a completely different experience.
If i have kids, will definitely encourage them down this later path, its a much better approach.