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What is the IQ test?

bakship2_ — 2023-12-02 03:42:07 UTC

A standardized assessment, the intelligence quotient test or IQ test - designed to gauge an individual's cognitive abilities: logical reasoning; problem-solving; memory and mathematical skills - generates a numerical IQ score. In this scale of measurement where 100 signifies average performance, it finds wide usage in educational employment and research contexts. However, one must note that these tests offer only limited glimpses into specific aspects of cognition; they do not provide an all-encompassing evaluation of overall intelligence: indeed, intelligence is far more complex than what can be captured by such examinations. Test performance can also be influenced by cultural bias and socioeconomic factors; therefore, interpreting IQ scores demands caution. We must recognize the limitations of these scores in capturing the entire spectrum of human cognitive capacities.

Why the IQ test?

bakship2_ — 2023-12-02 03:51:45 UTC

I've just always had an interest when it comes to the IQ test and just generally attempting to measure people's intelligence levels. It is relevant today as it is a measurement that dictates children's placements in schools and even whether or not you can even serve in the military. The creation of it, specifically the why's and how's are the controversial part as the test is advantageous/disadvantageous for different cultural groups which I will further explain in the following slides. One of the laws that affects this issue is as previously mentioned with the military.

Dark history of the IQ test

bakship2_ — 2023-12-02 03:53:30 UTC

This is a TED talk from Stefan C. Dombrowski detailing the dark past of the IQ test

Brief history and societal implementations

bakship2_ — 2023-12-02 04:00:24 UTC

This is a snip from the article "The IQ test wars: why screening for intelligence is still so controversial" detailing some of the origin as well as how it has been used throughout history.

Discriminatory conclusions?

bakship2_ — 2023-12-02 04:04:04 UTC

This is another snip from the same article which was also explained in the TED talk, scientists were using the results of this test to discriminate different groups.

What is the Flynn effect?

bakship2_ — 2023-12-02 04:07:42 UTC

This is an article detailing the Flynn effect and how this curve was incapable of being evolutionary and thus drawing the conclusion that environmental factors play a role on test scores.

historical effects on marginalized communities

bakship2_ — 2023-12-02 04:15:28 UTC

This is an article on the Hobson V Hansen court case that showed these test which were administered to elementary school children to gear them towards different areas of work in the future had marginalized African Americans being over represented and thus pushing these children into lower class jobs and opportunities.

historical effects on marginalized communities part 2

bakship2_ — 2023-12-02 04:18:56 UTC

Diana V state board of education served to prove that these tests were also affecting Mexican Americans due to potential language barriers and also consequently overrepresenting them in the mentally retarded conclusions from the tests.

historical effects on marginalized communities part 3

bakship2_ — 2023-12-02 04:22:40 UTC

This is an article detailing Larry P v Riles which further served to show the effects of IQ tests on African Americans which ended up with a ruling that banned the use of it on African Americans to place them in Mentally retarded education.

Intersectionality and IQ tests

bakship2_ — 2023-12-12 04:25:27 UTC

This is a paper on intersectionality that mentions IQ tests and the overrepresentation of minorities in special education classes that were placed there because of IQ test scores.

politics and IQ tests

bakship2_ — 2023-12-12 04:34:28 UTC

This is a paper on the IQ tests of individuals and their political leanings/identity in America today. This study went through the entirety of the IQ tests, each section, the political parties averages for each, and from there drew conclusions. The key takeaways of which are that "Path analyses indicate that the associations between cognitive ability and party identity are largely but not totally accounted for by socio-economic position: individuals with higher cognitive ability tend to have better socio-economic positions, and individuals with better socio-economic positions are more likely to identify as Republican." However, This only applies to the socially liberal republicans who are bringing up the scores of the socially conservatives who have the Lowest IQ of the lot. Thus the IQ test affected both identity politics as well as the political representations in America.

People and IQ tests

bakship2_ — 2023-12-12 04:41:24 UTC

This is an article that delves deeper into the notion of scientific racism and specifically how this affected the immigrants and the diaspora of people based on the results of IQ tests. Essentially, the lower scores on the IQ tests lead to the fear of racially inferior groups which thus played into diaspora, dispersion, and migration globally.

IQ tests and Economics

bakship2_ — 2023-12-12 04:48:48 UTC

This is an article that goes over the connections between socio-economic status and IQ tests. It discovers that the higher the class, the higher the average score. This suggests the environmental impacts of the score that was previously established in the Padlet as well as a sense of maintaining hierarchy in the sense that those born into a higher socio-economic status are for more likely to remain at that status than for someone beneath to achieve that level.

IQ tests and Contemporary movements

bakship2_ — 2023-12-12 04:55:08 UTC

This is a paper published that establishes the impact that the IQ test has had over contemporary movements such as the Eugenics movement. This movement essentially served to try and improve the genetic quality of the human population by Sterilizing people with "bad genetic qualities." This as one could imagine had an extremely blurry and immoral line that propagated every "ist" you could possible think of whether it be racist ableist you name it. Since the IQ test favored certain demographics this was used as scientific proof to back the ideas of Eugenics.