IQ
As a 3rd Year Psych student, I find it immeasurably looney that people will
grab onto the concept of IQ and "iconise" it, or at least give it special
status, when the Psychological world can't even agree on what it is!
IQ is basically a constructed domain that has been nominalised beyond
recognition (from what the experience is). It has also, in the process of
nominalisation, lost all movement. IQ, according to the field, is static.
WHY?
No reason. It just is.
Sounds pretty delusional to me.
The tests were designed to measure a theoretical construct, and were
standardised and normed on large populations of US citizens. The norms
don't actually work on Aussies, particularly well. So what are we really
measuring here?
Kind Regards,
John B.