Re: My Experience as a "Non Gifted" Child

From: Alan Balmer (albalmer_at_att.net)
Date: 04/30/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 08:50:35 -0700

On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 10:04:49 GMT, CBFalconer <cbfalconer@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>Dave Rusin wrote:
>> Ender <ender@guiltyspark.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I am 14 and a freshman in highschool. Like you, my IQ is in the 120s.
>>
>> Where the heck do you youngsters get these "IQs" from, anyway? I
>> mean, is there really a reputable group of psychologists around
>> which still puts any faith in these quaint measures of some
>> absolute sort of "intelligence"? (And don't they lose any shred
>> of professionalism by sharing this number with impressionable
>> children who think it says something important about them?)
>
>Probably the same place we oldsters got 'em. 65 years or so ago
>they were given in the school class room, and the results
>publicized to the individual at least.

In my case, it was in the form of "You have an IQ of xxx - why are you
goofing off?

> This gave the teachers an
>idea of what to expect, and worked reasonably well with the
>homogenous groups involved. The whole process became highly
>non-PC in the following years, and was largely limited to
>do-it-yourself quiz books.
>
>They don't measure the laziness of the subject.

See above :-) 

-- 
Al Balmer
Balmer Consulting
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