Introduction
Intelligence Quotients are considered by a vast majority of the modern day society to be apt summaries of a person’s mental capabilities and the prospects that a person can hope for in the future based on the mental intelligence that the test scores prove the person to have. They are used as calculators of intelligence in almost all fields of life and are regarded as quick figures of sorts of a person’s mental capabilities. However, the Intelligence Quotient has been subject to just as much criticism as it has been accepted.
The following paragraphs shall provide an elaboration of my Intelligence Quotient test scores and shall provide a brief overview of my opinion regarding the intelligence quotient test. The test was taken using Intelligence Quotienttest.com. Upon taking the test on the website, the score was received via email.
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My Intelligence Quotient Test score as received by Intelligence QuotientTest.com is 91. In terms of population, according to test ratings and score classifications, my intelligence is average and I am present amongst the group of people who amount to sixty eight (68%) percent of all those who take the test. Being in the average group of people, a majority of the websites showed that people belonging in this group are literally defined by the meaning of the word average (Myers).
I do however a few reservations regarding the Intelligence Quotient test. I believe that Stephen Jay Gould may have been correct in his apprehensions that had to do with Intelligence Quotient tests (Gould). It does not sound justified fair of viable to consider Intelligence Quotient tests to be a complete summarization of a person’s intelligence. Looking into similar apprehensions that have been expressed by numerous people in the past, one cannot help but feel that perhaps the Intelligence Quotient test holds a philosophy that has become somewhat outdated. To evaluate a person based on one test alone that analyzes the person’s mental capabilities through one working philosophy alone does not seem fair to the miracle that is the human brain.
My personal opinion is that to evaluate a person’s capability of learning, applying and building on knowledge is too broad a spectrum of mental capabilities and comprises of too many variables to be judged according to one measure alone. Also, while taking the test, I did indeed feel that perhaps there were certain questions to which more than one answers could be correct when viewed through the eyes of a person who was not of the same race. Another aspect that was lingering in the back of my mind as I gave the test was the fact that I had read that Intelligence Quotient test results vary greatly between the two genders and that the test may have an element of gender based bias in it that was yet to be proved.
Conclusion
In light of the above brief discussion, we can infer that while my Intelligence Quotient may be one that may not hold valid in light of all the arguments that have questioned its legitimacy, presently it is still perhaps one of the few tests that can provide a person with an analysis of the person’s mental capability.
Works Cited
Gould, Stephen Jay. The Mismeasure of Man. Penguin Books, 1992.
Myers, David G. Psychology, Seventh Edition. Worth Publishers, 2003.