IQ was designed to measure general competency in learning and executing a wide range of levels of work. A high IQ means you can be a doctor, an engineer, a lawyer. A low IQ means you cannot be those things. An extremely low IQ means you are incapable of basic tasks, would be legally classified as retarded, etc. The military uses IQ to make sure their recruits can follow basic commands.
On the subject of the test itself, it is supposedly designed to detect high levels of problem solving and pattern recognition. So I would argue that IQ, though likely correlated with education level (since IQ is positively correlated to wealth, and higher wealth usually means higher education level), is actually independent of education.
Let’s just say that I’ve known some people who are very very good at what they do, and are brilliant at figuring out math problems and whatnot, yet they cannot see straight when it comes to the real world. I don’t think those people have exceptional IQs because of that, in fact I am pretty certain they have normal IQs but just a lot of focus and dedication to their specific studies which makes them geniuses in those fields.
Of course I conveniently framed this argument to suggest that we, the “awakened” ones, are geniuses with high IQs because we have seen through the smoke and mirrors of society.. haha. Maybe there is some element of truth beyond just self-flattery, anyways that’s my two cents.
IQ was designed to measure general competency in learning and executing a wide range of levels of work. A high IQ means you can be a doctor, an engineer, a lawyer. A low IQ means you cannot be those things. An extremely low IQ means you are incapable of basic tasks, would be legally classified as retarded, etc. The military uses IQ to make sure their recruits can follow basic commands.
On the subject of the test itself, it is supposedly designed to detect high levels of problem solving and pattern recognition. So I would argue that IQ, though likely correlated with education level (since IQ is positively correlated to wealth, and higher wealth usually means higher education level), is actually independent of education.
Let’s just say that I’ve known some people who are very very good at what they do, and are brilliant at figuring out math problems and whatnot, yet they cannot see straight when it comes to the real world. I don’t think those people have exceptional IQs because of that, in fact I am pretty certain they have normal IQs but just a lot of focus and dedication to their specific studies which makes them geniuses in those fields.
Of course I conveniently framed this argument to suggest that we, the “awakened” ones, are geniuses with high IQs because we have seen through the smoke and mirrors of society.. haha. Maybe there is some element of truth beyond just self-flattery, anyways that’s my two cents.