Michael Regilio
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard 12 Jul
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And using your memory as your superpower, it's the ultimate cheat code in life.
You can find something about anyone.
I did take one of those tests once, but to be honest with you, I forgot my IQ score, which I suppose goes to show you something.
I think it's fair to say that people with high IQ scores are more likely to support their validity than those with low IQ scores.
If you're good at chess, you want everyone to think that means you're smart. And if you're bad at chess, then chess doesn't mean a damn thing.
Oh, yeah. There's actually a number of IQ tests that have evolved over time. Why don't we start at the very beginning?
So first off, IQ stands for intelligence quotient, which is a term coined by the German psychologist William Stern, who ironically cautioned against using it alone to categorize intelligence.
Yeah. Stern wasn't the only one at the time working on ways to test people's intelligence. Most people identify the Binet-Simon test published in 1905 as the first real IQ test. It was developed in France to identify which school children had normal intelligence and which had abnormal intelligence.
Yeah, it was actually pretty harsh. And the fact of the matter is the turn of the century was pretty harsh in general. The original Benet-Simon test was particularly severe. It grouped children into four categories. Normality, debility, imbecility, and idiocy.
Yeah, you know, in their defense, these were technical terms at the time. Schoolyard bullies had yet to put the stank on the words imbecile and idiot. But yes, these were the determinations made by the B'nai Simon test.
OK, so the test was divided into four sections. The first section was called basic skills assumed of an idiot.
Yeah, that one was pretty simple stuff like unwrapping a piece of chocolate before eating it. Remember, this is a test for children.
Again, that would be the schoolyard doing its thing. It's funny comedian Doug Stanhope has a great bit about this He says that it doesn't matter what they switch the technical term to people will just co-opt that word to call friends when they do something stupid he's like Did you just put a metal plate in the microwave? What are you, developmentally challenged?
Testing for idiocy was just an early 20th century way of saying basic.
Yeah, you nailed it. It gets progressively more complicated. But remember, the highest level of the test was normality, so it's not exactly rocket science. For example, one of the later tasks had the tester fold a piece of paper in half twice before cutting out a triangle. Then the child would have to guess what the piece of paper would look like when he unfolded it.
Yeah, actually, that's a good one. The Binet-Simon test was very limited, as Binet himself pointed out. So work continued on trying to develop more robust IQ tests. A psychologist from Stanford named Lewis Terman took the Binet-Simon test and he adapted it, later publishing what became known as the Stanford-Binet test in 1916.
yeah and basically what they did was you took the mental age of someone divided it by their actual age their chronological age and then multiplied that by a hundred and bingo that's what an iq score is okay so if you're 40 chronologically and mentally the test says you're 40 you divide 40 by 40 you get one and you multiply that by 100 so your iq is 100
So what's the average IQ then? It's actually between 85 and 115. So using the bell curve, that's about 100.
Absolutely. Which is why psychologists have continued to come up with new tests ever since B'nai Simon first published theirs. They've also modified how the number itself is calculated. The whole concept evolved over time, but this is how it started at the turn of the century.
Yeah. In fact, you're not far off on that one. Two very consequential tests were even called the Army Alpha and the Army Beta tests.
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