I hear people say that high IQ doesn’t mean you are automatically good at something, but what does it mean then, in terms of physical properties of the brain? And how do they translate to one’s abilities?
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IQ is an attempt to measure human intelligence. It could be thought of as a measure of how quickly you can learn something.
The IQ mostly measures abstract reasoning rather than content knowledge. That’s why people say it’s a series of puzzles. You have to (as quickly as possible) figure out the pattern presented and extend it. Or find the most efficient way to reconstruct a pattern that’s been scattered. Sort of like a rubic’s cube needs to be put back together. The patterns become more abstract as you progress, so they become harder to figure out. The reasoning being that if you can still solve them, you must be exceptionally intelligent.
Just to reiterate, the IQ test is not designed to measure content knowledge. You can be brilliant and not be a walking encyclopedia. But when learning about gravity, having a high IQ would make it easier to understand what it means for it to be a rate of acceleration or, in math, why tangent lines have practical applications.
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