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From: hollombe@ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: sci.psychology
Subject: Re: IQ Test Items (HomeMade)
Message-ID: <2162@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Date: 24 Mar 88 01:10:21 GMT
References: <7743@apple.Apple.Com>
Reply-To: hollombe@ttidcb.tti.com (The Polymath)
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In article <7743@apple.Apple.Com> grady@apple.UUCP (Grady Ward) writes:
>The following items have been copied from an homemade untimed IQ test 
>that is used for admittance to some of the highest IQ societies.  Please send 
>me your responses and I will publish a summary of them (and any 
>critiques):

There's no such thing as a home made IQ test.  What you've presented is a
collection of puzzles.  They may be of interest and/or amusing to some
people, but that's all they are.

IQs are measured with respect to the general population.  For a test to
accomplish this it must be carefully normed on a representative subset of
the general population.  This process is long, complex, and very
expensive.  It is not a cottage industry.

What you've presented represents only someone's opinion of what might be
used to measure intelligence.  There's no reason to assume it actually
measures any aspect of intelligence at all.  Even were that not the case,
without a rigorous norming process it can't be said to measure anything
with respect to the general population.

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