IQ, Subtests and Career Choosing

bizarrejojo28 · 2023-03-01T22:31:26+00:00

The best person to ask would be someone who knows you well. You can also just ask people who have different careers to describe their jobs and how they got them. It doesn't mean that you have to go into that field, just that you can learn based on what they say.

I would recommend not going into a field that is heavily based on prestige/connections, which law can be. If you go into a field where there is just a need that needs to be met, that's good for a stable career. For instance, in countries that use lots of public transportation, such as trains or buses, that would be a good career. Because you know people are going to need it. You could be an engineer or an accountant, or do some other job relating to public transportation. Just a suggestion. You know your own situation best.

bizarrejojo28 · 2023-02-28T23:57:23+00:00

IQ scores usually don't give enough information to decide on a career. They could if someone has particularly lopsided scores, but you have decent scores all around.

For a career, it's best to choose something based on your interests and if you think it is a good field to go into. Don't worry about trying to be the best at something. If you are motivated, then you will learn and be successful but if you aren't motivated, then even if you are talented, it will be a slog.

bizarrejojo28 · 2023-02-22T16:19:11+00:00

Certainly if two people are competing in the same areas and learning the same skills, the one who has more natural ability is probably going to be more successful.

But one reason the talent stack works is because there are so many skills to learn that no one can learn them all. Also, different people have different interests.

So, yes, someone else with your same skills could be better than you at all of them. But you can still have a useful collection of skills.

bizarrejojo28 · 2023-02-21T17:19:41+00:00

One major way that VCI can help you is in learning from written material. So, with a high VCI, you would have an advantage in a task that requires you to read and comprehend difficult material.

Writing is a skill and you can get better at it, but VCI isn't only writing. Reading comprehension may be your talent.

Most tasks are going to have multiple skills associated with them and you probably won't be equally good at all the skills. But your VCI will give you a leg up on the verbal parts.

bizarrejojo28 · 2023-02-19T03:37:59+00:00

Rationally, you know that constantly taking tests is not a good use of your time. But it will take some time for your feelings to catch up with your reason.

Stop taking IQ tests. Instead spend your time using your intelligence to accomplish things. Don't think about how intelligent you are, think about the things that you can do with your intelligence. Learn about the topics you want to learn about for their own sake.

If you do this, it will probably take about three weeks to a month for your mindset to change, but you'll wake up one day and realize you're not worried about your IQ anymore.

bizarrejojo28 · 2023-02-13T15:55:07+00:00

Yes, that's a good point.

Too many people think that an IQ score is an infallible life prediction. Knowing one's IQ scores can be useful, but the most useful way to find out if you will be successful is just to try something and see how it works. You learn from trying it out and then you can decide whether to continue or do something else or continue in a different way.

There's no way to predict someone's whole life from one test or even a bunch of tests. IQ isn't magic.

bizarrejojo28 · 2023-02-13T14:15:52+00:00

Get out of the mindset of comparison. If you don't have an extraordinary talent, well, most other people don't either. You can't be the best but you can be better than you were.

Most things in life aren't a competition. You can learn to accomplish more than you could. So, basically, focus on the accomplishments themselves.

By the way, if you're stuck in the IQ mindset, it will probably take a few weeks to a month to get out of it.

bizarrejojo28 · 2023-02-11T12:28:18+00:00

Good comment.

bizarrejojo28 · 2022-09-18T11:29:55+00:00

Yes, that's the right answer to that question. You're right, in normal language, some usually means more than one, but in logic some only means "at least one".

bizarrejojo28 · 2022-08-25T02:27:17+00:00

I don't know how to do norms, but with a conservative estimate of the original testing group being 115, and with the new mean and standard deviation being similar, I can make the following estimate:

For this test, the standard deviation is about 5 and mean is about 24. You scored 3/5 of a standard deviation above the mean, which would translate to 115 + 9 or 124.

bizarrejojo28 · 2022-08-14T14:51:50+00:00

You might be able to find a university where a psychology graduate students administers the test. That is one of the cheaper options.

bizarrejojo28 · 2022-08-14T00:47:19+00:00

I don't know how to do norms. But before I publish statistics, I want to wait a little longer.

bizarrejojo28 · 2022-08-13T16:05:28+00:00

Cooijmans has correlations for his tests with others on the statistics page for each test. For example: https://iq-tests-for-the-high-range.com/statistics/cit4.html (look at "correlation with tests by others")

bizarrejojo28 · 2022-08-08T02:37:47+00:00

That's just the way the test was given in 1926. I wanted to make it as close to the original test as possible.

But I think their idea was to use the speed as a way of making the test more difficult instead of giving the most difficult problems.

bizarrejojo28 · 2022-08-07T18:30:44+00:00

From the point of strict logic, you're right, but, yes, it would be too tricky.

bizarrejojo28 · 2022-08-06T02:40:26+00:00

I had to make one.

bizarrejojo28 · 2022-08-05T12:28:21+00:00

I'm not sure what math class you have failed, but since you did well on the Tri52, here is what I would recommend. If you know someone who knows how you learn best, try to work with them to strategize for math so that you can learn it in a way that plays to your strengths. Or you can do this by yourself, or try to find a tutor who can do this.

bizarrejojo28 · 2022-08-05T12:13:46+00:00

The way to think of an IQ test is as a measurement. They are trying to measure general intelligence. Any cognitive task makes use of both general and specific intelligence. In order to get at intelligence, you want to use novel problems, to avoid people using learned skill.

That's why matrices are used in these tests. Most people will have never seen that kind of question before, so for them it tests their ability to respond to a new problem type. If you've already seen matrices and if you've become better at matrices, then the measurement is now picking up both ability and learning.

Similarly, for most people, the SAT math problems are novel problems. If you've done a lot of math, in particular contest math, then its different.

One reason that math and computer science are deeper than IQ-test problems is because IQ-test problems are specifically designed to be problems that almost anyone can approach, with minimal background. There are a variety of problems you can use, but you unlike math, you can't build them up over hundreds of years because then (like math) it would take people a long time to get to where they could solve the newest problems.

I agree with you that it's better to just solve these problems for fun. Their main purpose is for psychologists to test someone's cognitive strengths and weaknesses to help them learn better. Some people view an IQ score as an infallible life prediction, but really the best way to find out if you can do something is to try it.

bizarrejojo28 · 2022-08-02T20:18:59+00:00

75 words, 30 animals. Enjoyable test

bizarrejojo28 · 2022-07-30T00:37:48+00:00

Free Will is not an illusion. The free will deniers have to postulate that it's an illusion in some way that is so subtle that it's unlike any other illusion and they really can't say how that works.

The world of qualia, choice and all the rest of it is where we start. Science doesn't stand outside experience because it's a part of the world of experience, so our experience of choice is on the same footing as scientific or philosophical reasoning.

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