Should IQ be a requirement?

[Aliantha]

I find it interesting that so many people here claim to have had their IQ tested.

What I think would be more interesting is to know if those tests were formal IQ tests or not.

In Australia, it's very rare for someone to be formally tested because IQ testing is considered to be generally unrepresentative of a persons actual intelligence. That is to say, you might score well, but be totally useless in other situations. Education and vocational training is tending to follow gardiner's theory of multiple intelligences which is probably a lot more realistic in every day situations.

Most kids that are formally IQ tested tend to be tested because they have learning issues. IQ tests are also used to determine disorders such as aspergers and autism. They're not used to predict how many A's a kid is going to get on their next test.

[Perry Winkle]

Originally Posted by Aliantha

I find it interesting that so many people here claim to have had their IQ tested.

I was tested twice. The first time for admittance into a gifted school/program in 3rd grade. I was accepted but didn't attend. The second time I was tested because I had filed for disability when I was REALLY, really sick, and when I got better the govt. provided career counseling and a formal IQ test was part of the evaluation.