Donald Trump appeared to describe a dementia screening he underwent at Walter Reed Medical Center as a 'very hard' IQ test while speaking with reporters inside Air Force One
IQ is highly biased towards western societies, but I’d argue that you could expect a president to get a 30 minute briefing and summarise it afterwards, for example?
Individual IQ tests are biased towards the culture of the person who made the test, and the actual tests are also biased towards the tester’s biases.
If those biases are racial, the bias is racial. The original test maker was trying to identify students who needed extra help, btw, and the concept itself isn’t racial or pseudoscience, but the popular implementation is.
The test is a test, and people think too much of it and try to use it in a way they shouldn’t, like it’s a magic “you’re this smart for life” number which it simply isn’t and wasn’t meant to be.
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IQ is highly biased towards western societies, but I’d argue that you could expect a president to get a 30 minute briefing and summarise it afterwards, for example?
IQ isn’t biased towards western societies.
Individual IQ tests are biased towards the culture of the person who made the test, and the actual tests are also biased towards the tester’s biases.
If those biases are racial, the bias is racial. The original test maker was trying to identify students who needed extra help, btw, and the concept itself isn’t racial or pseudoscience, but the popular implementation is.
The test is a test, and people think too much of it and try to use it in a way they shouldn’t, like it’s a magic “you’re this smart for life” number which it simply isn’t and wasn’t meant to be.