A widely held hypothesis is that people lose intelligence as they age, the so-called Flynn Effect, arrived at by comparing IQ tests of elderly people with today's young people. This flys in the face of comparisons of IQ scores of these same "elderly" people to their own era (a half a century before) where apparently IQ losses with age are minimal. One has to wonder about the IQ test makers themselves. Surely they've changed along with their various indeterminate intelligence "measuring" devices. Who knows? Where's Einstein when you need him?
Can intelligence be a surrogate for wisdom, over vice versa? Just thot I'd ask.
ReplyDeleteThe inability to read for prolonged periods of time is becoming more pronounced in younger people. There are reports and statistical studies that indicate most people scan for information and even more prefer visual transmission of information. I surmise that we are, again, becoming a society of those who read, write and research well compared to those who don't do any of those things once they can avoid it. This phasing in tells me that IQ testing is and has never been adequent for determining a person's intelligence quota. IQ testing which was 'invented' to prove the inequaity of humans was a god decision and not based upon environment, does not measure a persons will to learn and think logically. It only tests to what degree they have already mastered certain areas of commonly recognized knowledge use. There are too many variations in different IQ tests to depend on them, even if they were a valid form of measurement of intelligence. Nothing humans have ever created beats the ability to read and accrue information in that manner. Logical thinking also comes through with reading and not mathematics alone.
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