{"id":1286,"date":"2013-01-02T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/?p=1286"},"modified":"2013-01-02T13:06:44","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T21:06:44","slug":"iq-tests-and-testing-are-myths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/iq-tests-and-testing-are-myths","title":{"rendered":"IQ Tests and Testing Are Myths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" alt=\"IQ wizardry and mythology\" border=\"3\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-content\/uploads\/wizard_pose_6238.jpg\" width=\"325\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center; \"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">IQ Testing:<\/span><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center; \"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Wizardry? Mythology?<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, geneva, sans-serif; \">If you are a reader of this blog, you know that I have no love for IQ tests and IQ testing as a way to determine a child&#39;s, or an adult&#39;s, or a teenager&#39;s total intelligence. &nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, geneva, sans-serif; \">The tests measure aspects of cognition and are useful for learning many things about a person &#8211; <strong>but they should never be the one and only test used to make serious long term decisions about any person of any age.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, geneva, sans-serif; \">Now there is some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.counselheal.com\/articles\/3388\/20121221\/new-study-shows-iq-tests-myth-flawed.htm  \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">research<\/a> that agrees with me<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-content\/plugins\/fckeditor-for-wordpress-plugin\/ckeditor\/plugins\/smiley\/images\/shades_smile.gif\" title=\"\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; text-align: left; \"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, geneva, sans-serif; \">Researchers that took part in the study now claim that it is a &quot;myth&quot; to measure human beings intelligence using an IQ, but instead say that it can only be predicted by combining results from at least three tests of our mental agility.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; text-align: left; \">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, geneva, sans-serif; \">An IQ test is NOT a universal, one shot, one dimensional way to find out about anyone&#39;s intelligence&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"\" border=\"2\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-content\/uploads\/question_mark_serious_thinker_150_wht_5562.gif\" width=\"120\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right; \"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, geneva, sans-serif; \">Comments<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right; \">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right; \">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right; \">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right; \">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right; \">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right; \">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right; \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" alt=\"\" height=\"103\" src=\"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-content\/uploads\/thank_you_400_wht_4252.png\" width=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IQ Testing: Wizardry? Mythology? &nbsp; If you are a reader of this blog, you know that I have no love for IQ tests and IQ testing as a way to determine a child&#39;s, or an adult&#39;s, or a teenager&#39;s total intelligence. &nbsp; &nbsp; The tests measure aspects of cognition and are useful for learning many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[283],"tags":[485,403,315],"class_list":["post-1286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-child-development","tag-cognitive-development","tag-iq-score","tag-iq-tests","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}