Week 7 Assignment 1
Resource: IQ Test Labs website at http://www.intelligencetest.com/
Complete the free Web-based intelligence test and review the results.
Answer the following questions in paragraph form: ·12 Did you feel the results were accurate?
·13 Was the test biased in any way?
·14 How do you feel about these types of scores being used to compare you with another person? Please explain.
I completed the free IQ test at the above address and scored 124. Overall, I was satisfied that the results were accurate, and did not detect any sort of gender or racial bias to the questions it contained. If the test has any bias in it, I think it's a bias against unintelligent people as some of the questions are rather complex, and accordingly, would be difficult to solve for people who ultimately score low on it. I suppose that is to be expected, though; an intelligence test would certainly appear to discriminate towards the unintelligent as far as what scores it awards and to whom.
I think that IQ tests such as these are very good at evaluating a person's reasoning ability, skills at pattern recognition and comprehension / memory. However, there are other measures of an individuals aptitiudes such as emotional IQ, ability to function under stress, creativity and resourcefulness that can be just as important in practical life. For some purposes, IQ test results can be a useful tool for evaluation and comparison, but people shouldn't put too much stock in this as a single comprehensive measure of their abilities. There are many ways in which we can succeed in life that don't necessarily involve math prowess or extreme powers of recall or deduction.