IQ is an extremely anti-empirical, tautological conception of "intelligence", favored by those who "think they can understand the universe by sitting on the couch and sipping on whisky", as physicst Sean Carroll says. By anti-empirical, I just mean IQ tests under-rate the role of experience and intuition. I scored around 98 consistently on various measures, yet I could maintain a 4.0, by my Junior year in college (including scoring 105% in Calculus) - although my SAT predicted bottom 20th percentile. Since then, I have tutored a few students in the several college math courses. I developed and sold two computer programs (CRM systems), one of them... (read more)
IQ is an extremely anti-empirical, tautological conception of "intelligence", favored by those who "think they can understand the universe by sitting on the couch and sipping on whisky", as physicst Sean Carroll says. By anti-empirical, I just mean IQ tests under-rate the role of experience and intuition. I scored around 98 consistently on various measures, yet I could maintain a 4.0, by my Junior year in college (including scoring 105% in Calculus) - although my SAT predicted bottom 20th percentile. Since then, I have tutored a few students in the several college math courses. I developed and sold two computer programs (CRM systems), one of them... (read more)