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Originally Posted by masraum
I believe that there are folks of all ranges of IQ in all walks of life.
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This is true.
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I'd bet that you can go into the average inner city hood and find folks with very low levels of education that have a high IQ
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I think this is almost certainly true as well. Example I recall was a high-school janitor that tested higher than a 5 star general.
Because a lot of folks with very specialist or within very narrow fields often don't operate well outside those - even though they're not stupid.
And there's also a wide range of skills/abilities that IQ tests don't even attempt to measure.
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(to me IQ is a natural ability to think, reason, learn).
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Most language-based IQ tests are intended to measure spacial awareness, mathematical ability (including reasoning, use of logic), language skills and memory, with roughly equal scores assigned to each, IIRC.
An equivalent "culture-free" (symbols-based) test is usually administered at the same time that removes the language portion/bias - for non-native English speakers, for example.
The highest score from either test is then used. For best results, the scale (difficulty) of the selected test should be somewhere near the ballpark of the expected final result - e.g. don't test Mensa candidates (top 1 percentile of the population) with a test intended for sub- or average candidates. Or vice-versa.
Opinion is divided as to whether they actually measure anything tangible anyway. There's no guarantee that any individual with a high IQ is going to be successful in either work or school - although they often are.