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The Role of Iq in Measuring Intelligence by :
Andrew
The qualifying genius level is different for every intelligence quotient test, and they can not give a clear answer to the question what genius is. For instance, the qualifying genius level on the Cattell IIIB makes 148, putting in this way the genius into the eighty third percentile rank. On the Stanford-Binet a genius occupies the eighty sixth percentile rank, with a qualifying genius level - 132. So, we can see that the answers of these tests are discrepant, they can not be compared and consequently, they are not objective. Even in case if the intelligence tests were comparable and objective, the high intelligence quotient does not mean that a person is a genius, the same concerns the low IQ, it doesn't mean that a person with low IQ mentally challenged.
Though the IQ of Andre Massena, one of the most talented commanders of Napoleon's army, was 103, Napoleon said that Massena was the greatest person of his military Empire. The IQ tests serve to define the functional level of intelligence; it is connected with the fact that they are not able to determine the conceptual capacity of the intellect.
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