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Screen test. (Credit: Image courtesy of University of Western Ontario)
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After conducting the largest online intelligence study on record, a Western University-led research team has concluded that the notion of measuring one's intelligence quotient or IQ by a singular, standardized test is highly misleading.
The findings from the landmark study, which included more than 100,000 participants, were published Dec. 19 in the journal Neuron. The article, "Fractionating human intelligence," was written by Adrian M. Owen and Adam Hampshire from Western's Brain and Mind Institute (London, Canada) and Roger Highfield, Director of External Affairs, Science Museum Group (London, U.K).
Utilizing an online study open to anyone, anywhere in the world, the researchers asked respondents to complete 12 cognitive tests tapping memory, reasoning, attention and planning abilities, as well as a survey about their background and lifestyle habits.
"The uptake was astonishing," says Owen, the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience and Imaging and senior investigator on the project. "We expected a few hundred responses, but thousands and thousands of people took part, including people of all ages, cultures and creeds from every corner of the world."
The results showed that when a wide range of cognitive abilities are explored, the observed variations in performance can only be explained with at least three distinct components: short-term memory, reasoning and a verbal component.
No one component, or IQ, explained everything. Furthermore, the scientists used a brain scanning technique known as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), to show that these differences in cognitive ability map onto distinct circuits in the brain.
With so many respondents, the results also provided a wealth of new information about how factors such as age, gender and the tendency to play computer games influence our brain function.
"Regular brain training didn't help people's cognitive performance at all yet aging had a profound negative effect on both memory and reasoning abilities," says Owen.
Hampshire adds, "Intriguingly, people who regularly played computer games did perform significantly better in terms of both reasoning and short-term memory. And smokers performed poorly on the short-term memory and the verbal factors, while people who frequently suffer from anxiety performed badly on the short-term memory factor in particular."
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I thought so.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;38903292]I thought so.[/QUOTE]
I've called bullshit for quite some time also.
[QUOTE=Bradyns;38903298]I've called bullshit for quite some time also.[/QUOTE]
Same. Only to be answered by thousands of FP users saying I was stupid for thinking that.
Irony? :v:
Wasn't the IQ test invented by a eugenicist to prove that black people are not as smart as white people
That online study was posted here on FP when it first came out. I remember because I took it and thought it was really neat. It had a lot of measurements based on who else had taken it as well as averages.
my IQ is 120 I'm so smart praise meeee
(I'm not even kidding, I went to a psychologist and did the test, and when I heard the result I said "That can't be right")
hard work>natural intelligence any day
[QUOTE=DrLuckyLuke;38903402]my IQ is 120 I'm so smart praise meeee
(I'm not even kidding, I went to a psychologist and did the test, and when I heard the result I said "That can't be right")[/QUOTE]
That's like the Facepunch average though.
We all end up with that score for whatever reason.
I thought it was already (rather widely) known that IQ wasn't equivalent to intelligence?
[QUOTE=stealth_camo;38903415]hard work>natural intelligence any day[/QUOTE]
Work smart, not hard.
Maybe everyone will shut up with:
[QUOTE]LOOK AT ME
I HAVE AN IQ ON 14000000000000, JUST BARELY ENOUGH TO JOIN MENSA
I AM SO SMART BLABLABLA[/QUOTE]
They always say the score is [I]barely[/I] high enough to join Mensa, but that's because they can't make a convincing lie enough to say that they actually have joined it
[QUOTE=DrLuckyLuke;38903402]my IQ is 120 I'm so smart praise meeee
(I'm not even kidding, I went to a psychologist and did the test, and when I heard the result I said "That can't be right")[/QUOTE]
Last time I took one I got a 145 (only because it wasn't a timed version). Surprised the fuck out of the person that gave it to me (it was a follow-up for having taking learning assistance classes early in grade school, the guy hadn't looked at what my grades were like since then. It was a great moment of "Ha, I'm not retarded!" (But all of it goes to show that IQ tests aren't all that great, I was, and still am, dumb as a brick)
fuck it -snip-
[QUOTE]Hampshire adds, "Intriguingly, people who regularly played computer games did perform significantly better in terms of both reasoning and short-term memory.[/QUOTE]
Pretty cool. Seems like a nice response to the typical "You play too much video games!"-type of parenting.
Standardized tests are horrible ways to figure out how smart a person is. People tend to excel only in certain areas.
This is an awful circlejerk of "I knew it all along!!!" 's
Even in the very same thread that discounts the validity of IQs, we still have our Facepunch geniuses bragging about their Einstein IQs.
[QUOTE=Block;38903646]Pretty cool. Seems like a nice response to the typical "You play too much video games!"-type of parenting.[/QUOTE]
Probably because video games are all about reasoning. It's how you get good at them, especially RTSes and the like.
[QUOTE=Starpluck;38903826]Even in the very same thread that discounts the validity of IQs, we still have our Facepunch geniuses bragging about their Einstein IQs.[/QUOTE]
Not much else to brag about in a forum full of Aspergers.
that's not possible i have an iq of 160
Hey, I took part in this study! Easiest $50 I ever made.
B-but I have an IQ of ~150 :saddowns:
i got like 150 or 160 or something like that
though i admit i kind of did google the word scramble, i'm terrible at those
It's good to see this old "myth" debunked. The individuality of a person doesn't automatically make someone dumb - in fact everyone has his strength and weakness and therefore excels at a different subject. I know some people you could call "dumb" but when it comes down to something they're good with they just outsmart a lot of people.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;38903292]I thought so.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Bradyns;38903298]I've called bullshit for quite some time also.[/QUOTE]
well christ why didn't you say something sooner, they wouldn't have had to bother with the study
defining a twisted idea of self worth with a number for bragging rights?
Starpluck already mentioned it, but maybe people somehow missed his post.
[B]SINCE WE'VE NOW DEBUNKED IQ TESTS, THERE IS NO NEED FOR YOU TO POST YOUR ABOVE AVERAGE SCORE ON SAID TEST. IT IS IRRELEVANT.[/B]
Thank you, that is all.
I never checked my IQ so I guess can't brag about it
however it's good to know I'm bound to survive most of the upcoming apocalypses thanks to my amazing gamer reasoning and short-term memory!
[QUOTE=Bradyns;38903286]Scientists Debunk the IQ Myth.[/QUOTE]
Jesus fucking Christ, you just cannot get away from people refusing to read a paper in this section.
IQ is still a thing. This study criticized the use of IQ, which is a generalization of intelligence, as a representation of the [I]entirety[/I] of intelligence, which very few people or tests do anymore. Prominent IQ tests don't just spit out a number at you and claim it indicates how smart you are. If you took one of those in school or online or with a shrink, you were being bullshitted. The paper mentions their use for generalizing things, it's simply probing what lies beneath and taking issue with a few types of test that are bad about breaking down what they're testing into functional elements.
This "debunks" IQ in the same way the discovery that people contained organs debunked the existence of people.
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