Is it really possible to test someone’s Intelligence Quotient with a standardized test?

According to a quick Internet search, the original method for calculating IQ was developed by a German psychologist, William Stern, in the early 20th century. Lewis Terman popularized the method by creating the Stanford-Binet test.

The formula that was initially created is shown below:

More modern-day testing has been modified by scientists who argued that the earlier testing methods had significant design flaws.

Scoring:

IQ scoring is based on grading a standardized examination that yields a numerical score. An average Intelligence quotient is considered 100. If a person scores above 100, they are said to have an above-average IQ. A score returned below 100 would label the individual as a person with a below-average IQ.

The Famous So-called Geniuses

Very few, if any, of history’s most renowned “geniuses” took an IQ test because the modern version of the test did not even exist during their lifetimes. IQ testing began in the early 20th century, long after many of history’s greatest thinkers lived. The scores often cited for historical figures are only estimates that later academics and psychologists made.

Timeline for Test Creations:

Initial development (1905): French psychologist Alfred Binet created the first modern intelligence test to identify schoolchildren who needed extra help.
American adaptation (1916): Lewis Terman of Stanford University revised Binet’s test for use in the U.S., creating the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale and formalizing the “intelligence quotient” (IQ) formula.
Adult tests (1930s): The first tests designed specifically for adults were developed by psychologist David Wechsler.

The timeline above means IQ scores for individuals who died before the 20th century are predicated on pure guesswork!

Estimated vs. documented IQs

Many of the most commonly cited genius-level IQs are guestimations, while more recent figures may have verifiable scores.

Albert Einstein: He never took an IQ test, and the often-repeated number of 160 is an estimation. Einstein died in 1955, after modern IQ tests existed, but there is no evidence he ever took one.
Leonardo da Vinci: As he lived from 1452 to 1519, centuries before IQ testing was invented, his estimated IQ of 180–190 is pure speculation.
Isaac Newton: Living from 1643 to 1727, his estimated IQ of 190 is also speculative.
Marie Curie: Born in 1867, she lived long enough to have potentially taken a test, but no official score is recorded for the Nobel Prize-winning scientist.

Some so-called modern geniuses have been assigned numbers based on taking an IQ test, but how reliable are these examinations?

In my opinion, IQ tests are not very reliable. In fact, many scientists and critics of IQ tests claim the methods for assessing and assigning IQ scores still have significant design flaws.

Criticisms

Problems with IQ testing include inherent cultural and socioeconomic biases, the narrow definition of intelligence measured by the tests, limitations in validity and reliability, and a history of discriminatory misuse. Many experts also argue that a single numerical score cannot capture human intelligence’s complex and multifaceted nature. I couldn’t agree more.

Narrow definition of intelligence

In my view, IQ tests primarily measure limited cognitive skills, such as logic, reasoning, and verbal ability, while ignoring other important intellectual capabilities.

Knowing what I do about our controllers and how they have continually obfuscated our truthful past and presented it to society using false timelines, I think intelligence quotient is based on bullshit and has been placed into the public domain to sell the idea that some brilliant humans created technologies from scratch in our modern society, hiding the facts that these amazing marvels were already in existence and reintroduced into our modern-day world after a recent cataclysmic reset event.

I put IQ testing right up there with carbon dating and PCR diagnostics. The tests were created more to support an agenda than anything else.

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