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.
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.
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.