With all the standardized testing in today’s world, it is no surprise that every parent wants to get their child’s intelligence tested. Personally, my mom had me tested when I was in the second and the eighth grade to qualify for the ‘gifted program’ at my school. Unfortunately for me, I barely missed the minimum threshold in the second grade, but surpassed the minimum threshold with flying colors in the eighth grade. I decided to take a basic version of the test again at https://www.123test.com/iq-test/index.php. I scored a seven out of ten, which means I scored between a 105 and a 120.
IQ tests were first created by a French psychologists named Binet, who decided that we needed to find a way to measure a child’s intelligence quotient (IQ). Over time there were other psychologists who further developed the idea of IQ and moved from a single number to define everyone to more of a broader area where people specialize. However, even with the upgrade in research and IQ tests I believe that the test attempts to test intelligence, but it is not validity. Instead of testing intelligence, it tests general knowledge. As a student who attends one of the hardest university’s in Florida and
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According to the textbook, reliability is defined as the ability “of a test producing consistent results each time it is taken.”(xxx). I believe that if I took the same IQ test in a couple months, maybe even a couple weeks, the results would be drastically different because of the knowledge I would gain from the outside world. For example, the IQ test I took had numerous questions where I had to know the definition of a word and find its meaning from a list they gave me. Over the next couple months, I might learn some more words which could positively impact my IQ score and my IQ test. Me learning these words doesn’t mean I am more intelligent, it just means I am more knowledgeable about the definitions of certain