{"id":1802,"date":"2017-03-17T08:00:33","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T08:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/blog\/?p=1802"},"modified":"2017-12-28T21:21:36","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T21:21:36","slug":"using-iq-scores-thoughtfully","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/using-iq-scores-thoughtfully\/","title":{"rendered":"Using IQ Scores Thoughtfully"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1803 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/AdobeStock_75677324_Credit-1024x614.jpg\" alt=\"AdobeStock_75677324_Credit\" width=\"640\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/AdobeStock_75677324_Credit-1024x614.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/AdobeStock_75677324_Credit-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Debates about the meaning and value of IQ have long raged; doubtless, they will continue to do so.<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2079-3200\/5\/1\/8\/htm\">article<\/a>, by a scholar steeped in the field, argues that &#8212; even for those who see real benefit in focusing on IQ &#8212;\u00a0it is essential to distinguish between fluid intelligence (the ability to solve new problems) and crystallized intelligence (knowledge already stored in long-term memory).<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve read Todd Rose&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/on-average-the-average-is-off\/\">book<\/a> <i>The End of Average<\/i>, you will remember that &#8220;talent is always jagged.&#8221; That is: two people who have the same IQ might nonetheless be very different thinkers &#8212; in part because their score might result from dramatically different combinations of fluid and crystallized subscores.<\/p>\n<p>In short: even advocates for IQ see potential perils\u00a0in misusing this well-known metric.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Debates about the meaning and value of IQ have long raged; doubtless, they will continue to do so. This article, by a scholar steeped in the field, argues that &#8212; even for those who see real benefit in focusing on IQ &#8212;\u00a0it is essential to distinguish between fluid intelligence (the ability to solve new problems) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":1803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[22,28],"class_list":["post-1802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lb-blog","tag-intelligence","tag-methodology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1802"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1807,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802\/revisions\/1807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}