Intellegence

The article Getting Smart about IQ written by Art Levine looks at the meaning of an intelligence quotient test and what they really determine.

Intelligence quotient tests determine how well our problem solving, logical, and verbal abilities are. The test is usually given to a someone who has the false pretense that this IQ test will actually tell them whether or not they are “smart.” Harvard psychologist Howard Gardener can up with a theory that there isn’t just one type of intelligence but seven. The seven types of personalities are linguistic, logical-mathematical, musical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, and intrapersonal. In the rest of the article it talked about how to determine what category a person falls into and what their certain intelligence IQ is.

The current research being done on intelligence is by taking a group of people and putting them in separate rooms and properly testing them on certain types of intelligence. We have found that once a child has found their specific intelligence they succeed in that field more.

The difference between the Binet research and the research from the article is that the article tests all of the seven theorized intelligences. Binet’s research only tested people for their logical-mathematical intelligence. Binet took information that he knew and made it ten times harder for a person to correctly answer. The Binet test that is widely given to people gives the people a feeling of intelligence when they find their certain IQ number. The Binet test also falsely gives a person a felling of stupidity when they get a score lower than their expectations.

The flaw with the Binet test it is usually given in an uncontrolled environment. Binet’s abbreviated test can be found online, in schools, and in books. The other flaws in Binet’s test was that it was originally made to dumb down students that were any race other than Caucasian. Binet’s intension was to see if a child was too mentally impaired to attend school and learn anything. Binet also only tested the people in the school setting and only watched them during the testing period. Current psychologist would tell you that Binet should of taken the time to observe the test subject in their natural environment.

I thought this article was interesting on a personal level because I have taken just