>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4/23/2004 1:34:37 PM >>> wrote <<< The particular difficulty of the IQ measurement is that there seems to be a real difficulty in determining what would be a genuinely challenging problem for somebody more intelligent than oneself. One can certainly make up a problem that one cannot solve, but it may be hard to tell whether it is (on the one hand) impossible or (on the other hand) obvious to somebody with a certain level of ability. >>>
It is, I believe, much more basic than that: We do not have a good definition of 'intelligence' - there is heated debate over whether there even IS one thing called intelligence (I am of the opinion that there is). As to the difficulty of problems - that can at least be assessed by giving the problem to lots and lots of people, and seeing how many can solve it. Peter Peter L. Flom, PhD Assistant Director, Statistics and Data Analysis Core Center for Drug Use and HIV Research National Development and Research Institutes 71 W. 23rd St www.peterflom.com New York, NY 10010 (212) 845-4485 (voice) (917) 438-0894 (fax) . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
