I disagree. IQ test components test specific cognitive abilities, all of which contribute as a whole to intelligence (ability to perceive, comprehend, solve problems).
Some components test pattern manipulation ability, some test reasoning, some do comprehension ability. All these things ARE relevant to intelligence.
As to whether IQ tests are biased culturally, the creators try to filter that out. Being dumb as a rock does not always depend on one's culture but more on whether your brain developed well as you grew.
The IQ tests I've seen are idiotic pattern recognition, where the pattern can be something as dumb as counting the number of lines in an image and calling that a "pattern" to predict the next one.
Something like that has little real world applications. Then again, I've never taken the "real" IQ tests you pay for, just free ones that claim to be authentic.
The 'free' online ones are garbage and are highly inaccurate. The real tests contains graduated ranges of questions / puzzles to solve, and various categories of mental abiities to evaluate. They are developed and calibrated against known levels of intelligences.
I disagree. IQ test components test specific cognitive abilities, all of which contribute as a whole to intelligence (ability to perceive, comprehend, solve problems).
Some components test pattern manipulation ability, some test reasoning, some do comprehension ability. All these things ARE relevant to intelligence.
As to whether IQ tests are biased culturally, the creators try to filter that out. Being dumb as a rock does not always depend on one's culture but more on whether your brain developed well as you grew.
The IQ tests I've seen are idiotic pattern recognition, where the pattern can be something as dumb as counting the number of lines in an image and calling that a "pattern" to predict the next one.
Something like that has little real world applications. Then again, I've never taken the "real" IQ tests you pay for, just free ones that claim to be authentic.
The 'free' online ones are garbage and are highly inaccurate. The real tests contains graduated ranges of questions / puzzles to solve, and various categories of mental abiities to evaluate. They are developed and calibrated against known levels of intelligences.