-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At Dienstag, 1. Oktober 2002 19:26 zan wrote: > actually a true IQ test, such as a stanford-binet or a stanford binet > for children is based on *g* based results, or non-leanred age > independant bell curved statistics., and this meansure has been proven > to be a better indicator or performance at any task than any other > testing metric, even job-based and skill-based, geesh, what did your > wife get on that paper, cause IQ is the best correlate to intelligance > we have today.
1.) She got an A. 2.) The problem with IQ tests is it, that they are based on the social background/experience and language. This becomes a problem, if one tries to evaluate children who come out of disadvantaged groups or have a different mother tongue - - with dyslexia not uncommon. Stanford-Binet is NOT without that bias. Example: "What tool does an hacker need?" - -- mouse - -- hoe - -- keyboard - -- computer - -- hack - -- white hat - -- black hat - -- none of the above And what would the intelligent child of a Brazilian woodcutter answer? Ka - -- Space is created by the heart and not by the brain. http://www.khidr.net/users/ka/pgpkey.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9md+q72vu22ltWBERAr9RAJ9XJFF7AEKobJ7cEKN5RLfrC1EUZgCfVwWk cayhqc7ZWTpOYoHEZMjf98w= =EJty -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
