[ExI] World IQs may be falling

[William Flynn Wallace]

If we want a really, really great IQ test, it could be based on Bloom's
educational objectives:

https://teaching.charlotte.edu/services-programs/teaching-guides/course-design/blooms-educational-objectives

bill w

On Sat, Jul 30, 2022 at 1:40 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> BillK via extropy-chat
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> On Fri, 29 Jul 2022 at 22:50, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> >>... A lot of people know quite a bit but don't understand what they know.
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> > bill w _______________________________________________
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> >...That's right. IQ tests don't test knowledge. They test reasoning and
> problem-solving.
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> Wikipedia also mentions the problem of falling IQ scores in western
> countries.
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect>
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> BillK
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> Ja to both.  Our methods of training for reasoning ability must be
> overhauled in a world where we have a relentless drive toward ever greater
> specialization.  The vast improvement in electronic communication just in
> our lifetimes has caused this shift toward specialization.  So now... we
> need to find ways to measure problem-solving and reasoning in a world where
> we don't need to be good at everything, or even very many things.  We just
> need to be excellent at something.
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> spike
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