The examples of mapping and anachronism are also hypothetical. I wonder if they tried humor, which usually involves a juxtaposition of reality and distortion, two things at once and contrast recognition. Anyway, these are all reasoning tasks which imo is the real IQ test. Most IQ tests rely on word knowledge, influenced by education, and shape manipulation, influenced by early childhood training, both of which criminals often lack. I haven't got a citation handy but I seem to recall that many of these hard core criminals have documented brain injury which would affect performance.
Well, reading and writing are coding and decoding sounds and ideas, so it is an abstraction skill because those are not concrete things, and math is abstracted relationships of quantity. For general improvement through brain development, performance music and dancing are tops as they use several areas of the brain at once and promote connections. So even if your child is tone deaf and has no rhythm, something like that should be encouraged.
The examples of mapping and anachronism are also hypothetical. I wonder if they tried humor, which usually involves a juxtaposition of reality and distortion, two things at once and contrast recognition. Anyway, these are all reasoning tasks which imo is the real IQ test. Most IQ tests rely on word knowledge, influenced by education, and shape manipulation, influenced by early childhood training, both of which criminals often lack. I haven't got a citation handy but I seem to recall that many of these hard core criminals have documented brain injury which would affect performance.
Really good points.
This is what I was thinking. Training children to be strong in math & reading at an early age seems to be key components of high intelligence.
If we also teach them compassion for others during the early years, it helps quite a bit too.
Well, reading and writing are coding and decoding sounds and ideas, so it is an abstraction skill because those are not concrete things, and math is abstracted relationships of quantity. For general improvement through brain development, performance music and dancing are tops as they use several areas of the brain at once and promote connections. So even if your child is tone deaf and has no rhythm, something like that should be encouraged.
Great point. I forgot how much that helped me when growing up.
You just explained why the left can't meme and why they are so humorless.
It's a higher order mental skill. Less intelligent people laugh at pratfalls, clown faces, things like that.