I never understood the concept of one’s IQ. I always thought it was measured by ones understanding of the world around them, but someone told me that it’s more a test to measure ones ability to reason. What does an IQ test actually measure? And is it really all that important?

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I never understood the concept of one’s IQ. I always thought it was measured by ones understanding of the world around them, but someone told me that it’s more a test to measure ones ability to reason. What does an IQ test actually measure? And is it really all that important?

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Being frank an IQ test measures how good you are at a specific standarized test compared to your peers and nothing else.

The method is kind of simple. You do the test and your grade is curved using s bell curve considering your peers. An 100 IQ means you are at the average.

What does it REALLY measures? How good you are at the test. Ok, so what the test is for? It’s debatable. On most cases it is just a test, so, as all tests, it is useless if we use it to compare you with another individual. Even so it can give us some hints about how our minds work in varied environments, but you can’t take it to seriously.