<p>Thanks for the very meaty response! XD</p>
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<p>Likewise I’m sure.
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<p>Nice.
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<p>So what? Someone, somewhere, assigned these attributes as the defining properties of intelligence. You ask ANY psychologist and they will tell you how flawed and outdated the I.Q system is.</p>
<p>I have no idea how people can champion something so unrefined. It’s the sundial of calculations…nothing else. </p>
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Originally Posted by Wikipedia on Intelligence Quotient
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<p>Yes, it does:</p>
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Binet</p>
<p>Alfred Binet did not believe that IQ test scales qualified to measure intelligence. He neither invented the term “intelligence quotient” nor supported its numerical expression. He stated:</p>
<pre><code>The scale, properly speaking, does not permit the measure of intelligence, because intellectual qualities are not superposable, and therefore cannot be measured as linear surfaces are measured. (Binet 1905)
<p>Binet had designed the Binet-Simon intelligence scale in order to identify students who needed special help in coping with the school curriculum. He argued that with proper remedial education programs, most students regardless of background could catch up and perform quite well in school. He did not believe that intelligence was a measurable fixed entity.</p>
<p>Binet cautioned:</p>
<pre><code>Some recent thinkers seem to have given their moral support to these deplorable verdicts by affirming that an individual’s intelligence is a fixed quantity, a quantity that cannot be increased. We must protest and react against this brutal pessimism; we must try to demonstrate that it is founded on nothing.[80]
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