Intelligence linked to Atheism?

[TheSlyMoogle]

Originally Posted by Professor S

As soon as I read the title of this thread I knew the study would use IQ as the measure of intelligence. Keep in mind, IQ is considered to be an outdated and incomplete form of intelligence measurement by most professional educators.

For more, review Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences.

http://www.howardgardner.com/MI/mi.html

Oh I know, err kinda.

However the study was started back in 1994, and back then, IQ tests were the shit. Still makes for an interesting read. Also IQ tests aren't exactly out of the picture. There were some articles back in the past few years that tried to make them out to be all bad, however there is strong correlation for those who do well on IQ tests to do well also in scholastic endeavors.

In fact the APA did a nice big study on it.

Also a lot of folks disagree very much with Gardner.

[Professor S]

Originally Posted by TheSlyMoogle

Oh I know, err kinda.

However the study was started back in 1994, and back then, IQ tests were the shit. Still makes for an interesting read. Also IQ tests aren't exactly out of the picture. There were some articles back in the past few years that tried to make them out to be all bad, however there is strong correlation for those who do well on IQ tests to do well also in scholastic endeavors.

True, but keep in mind scholastic endeavors have been greatly impacted in a formative sense by the idea of IQ being the ideal measurement of intelligence. i.e. If your ideal of intelligence is spatial and verbal your scholastic endeavors will concentrate on spatial and verbal. Our scholastic teaching and acceptance exams basically measure IQ alone, a nature of traditional testing, especially the SATs. Its a self-fulfilling prophecy.

In fact the APA did a nice big study on it.

Also a lot of folks disagree very much with Gardner.

Yes, but I tend to think the problems inherent in Gardner aren't an argument for the woefully inadequate measurement system of IQ. If anything, Gardner may not be perfect, but it's far closer than IQ.

And for the record, I have a relatively high IQ and I think its very inadequate.