James Woods…. Brilliant and On Point !!!
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It was a test to see how intelligent you are. Such tests probably aren't necessary in your field, but they'll still have you solve a problem on a whiteboard to see how intelligent you are. Most large corporations will have their potential employees apply online and the application process will usually include some form of an IQ test. I can't think of a single large corporation I worked for that didn't require me to take such a test.
We have IQ tests everywhere and they are (rightfully) barriers to many paths a person can take. 10 U.S. Code § 520 requires them for entering the military. There have been two experiments with lowering the minimum from 85 to 80 but in both cases the men could not master anything well enough to justify their costs.
In my view intelligence cannot be measured. The most important skill is the ability to adapt.
Yes, that is intelligence. The ability to adapt is intelligence.
Known information is called knowledge
Your ability to do something is called talent
Your ability to do something well from experience is called skill
If you have both knowledge and skill than you're an expert
But the ability to think, calculate and adapt is called intelligence.
Intelligence is your mental speed, your wit, your capability to understand something new as it is presented to you.
It can be but many argue about the methodology or the different categories of intelligence. But your speed is literally your intelligence. That's why we call unintelligent people "slow" or "retarded" (medical term for "slow").
They all do.
Human intelligence isn't static, and it's time we stop treating it as if it is. With coaching and practice, people can improve and get faster over time.
A person might struggle because their creative, visionary "right brain" can't form a clear vision of the problem at hand. Often, this is because they can't relate the problem to their own life experiences.
Take me, for example: when I was younger, I couldn’t understand diagrams of a building from a top view. I couldn't grasp the spatial perspectives.
Fast forward 20+ years—after lots of software engineering and drawing experience—I now understand x, y, and z points in space. I get slopes and spatial relationships that used to be a mystery to me.
When I was 13, I failed badly at this. I just couldn't do it.
So what changed? I gained enough life experience to allow my right brain to turn problems into a clear picture of:
What the problem is. Why it's a problem. Different approaches to solve it. Now, my math skills are much sharper and faster compared to my teenage years.
Intelligence is not a fixed trait; it’s dynamic and constantly growing.
Many teachers doubted I would amount to much. I was barely a C student for most of my life. But today, I am much smarter than I was back in high school.
Intelligence is the speed it takes you to understand something. Your intelligence does not increase over the years, rather it gets worse as we age and our brains degenerate. Your IQ was likely HIGHER when you were 13 years old. Intelligence isn't the sum of knowledge that you have acquired over the years, it is your ability to absorb, understand and implement new knowledge. Our neurons die over time and we lose that ability (our speed) as we get older.
You seem like the type of person who would tell a kid, "There's no hope for you—you won't amount to anything."
I was in the lower 50% of SAT scores. If I had taken an IQ test at 13, it probably would have said I was an idiot. I'm not joking.
But things are very different now. After 20+ years of working on complex software engineering systems, analytical and spatial thinking just make more sense to me.
For example, when I see "x to the power of n," I understand it now because, in code, it's like having three nested loops running inside each other. I now have a clear vision of what "x to the power of n" means.
I didn't have that vision when I was a kid, so I struggled with the concept.
That's because you are retarded. No offense, but that's basic algebra and exponentiation which most people learn in middle school. It took you 20 years to grasp it. That doesn't mean that you're any worse of a software engineer than the rest, but the speed at which it took you to understand certain complex concepts could have been predicted by you taking that IQ test when you were 13.
Your main implication is that you would score higher on an IQ test now than if you were to take one 20 years ago; that's not true and if you truly think that than you have a fundamental misunderstanding of what an IQ test is.
Look... I believe that every human has unlimited intelligence potential. I believe in coaching and self improvement.
Placing someone in a box is SPITTING on God. Do you think that God would limit us????!!
I say bullshit!
No he did not.
Having a set standards for people is not heretical. It is necessary for certain careers. That is why the military, all universities and almost every corporation uses some form of IQ test. This indeed limits which people follow those paths but it is for their own benefit to be guided where they would not struggle.