Many have developed tests that attempt to gauge a person's intelligence. There are many high IQ societies that use these tests as membership criteria. However, as of yet, the "secret" of intelligence (if there is one) remains elusive. Yet IQ tests are used as predictors of educational achievement, job performance, special needs, etc. (If you've never taken an IQ test before, here's one that takes about 1 hour to complete.) How do you measure someone's intelligence? Would society benefit if everyone were required to take IQ tests? Does society improve the higher our IQs are?
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...there are few more controversial areas of science than the study of intelligence and, in reality, there's not even agreement among researchers about what this word actually means.
Unlike weight and height, which are unambiguous, there is no absolute measure of intelligence, just as there are no absolute measures of honesty or physical fitness....
Now my team at the UK Medical Research Council's Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge has come up with the ultimate test of intelligence.
Like many researchers before us, we began by looking for the smallest number of tests that could cover the broadest range of cognitive skills that are believed to contribute to intelligence, from memory to planning.
But we went one step further. Thanks to recent work with brain scanners, we could make sure that the tests involved as much of the brain as possible - from the outer layers, responsible for higher thought, to deeper-lying structures such as the hippocampus, which is involved in memory...
The result is a set of tests that probe what might be called your 12 pillars of wisdom.
Take the ultimate intelligence test
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Original posting by Braincrave Second Life staff on Oct 30, 2010 at http://www.braincrave.com/viewblog.php?id=366
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