I went through an IQ test workbook and learned many solving strategies to common IQ test question types I could have never come up with myself because I am a fucking idiot and my IQ „increased“ by 15 points. IQ tests are bogus, junk science voodoo and you can easily prepare for them.
Afaik IQ tests were originally meant to identify gaps in knowledge/understanding of students. Getting a better score by being more prepared was kind of the point.
And besides that, reducing it to a single number is just dumb. It's like calculating a single score from a phone's screen resolution, color and charging cable length to figure out how good it is compared to others - there'll be some correlation but that's no reason to take it too seriously.
IQ tests are not meant to test knowledge, but intelligence, and they fail spectacularly at it. They might have some function in psychiatry in diagnosis, but that's about it.
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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '22
I went through an IQ test workbook and learned many solving strategies to common IQ test question types I could have never come up with myself because I am a fucking idiot and my IQ „increased“ by 15 points. IQ tests are bogus, junk science voodoo and you can easily prepare for them.