WW re: your comment on iq tests Take IQ tests, for instance. You might score very high on an IQ test, yet may have no ability (or little ability) to draw anything you see with any kind of skill.

the 4 hour+ test given by doctors, test many of these diffent types of intelegence..there are spacial test, and memory test, and pattern finding test and drawing tests, and tactile tests...

the more common IQ test that are multiple choice questions on a a broad range of subjects, are more similar to SAT's or other test, what they test is general knowledge, and applications of that knowledge.. and relationships about the knowledge.

like one question similar to a recent crossword puzzle clue, horse:hocks::human:? if you only knew hock as in ham hocks (the narrow end of whole ham--) you might be able to come up with the correct answer, if the multiple choice list did not not include Knee. but its a stretch.. you have to think about hock, and where you know it from, and where it is on a living animal, and then think about what part of the body that would be on a human... (or you could have grown up on a farm, and be familiar with horses..) and the biggest thing that written IQ test test is reading ability!

a good IQ test can find intelegence in kids who can't read (but when presented with the same information verbal, or visually (images) clearly know the answer)

intelect is the intelligence plus effort. a persons basic inborn ability, plus the effort they have used with the ability.


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