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Astonishing (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (6 children)

At the end of the day, reducing intelligence down to one single number is already kind of questionable. What does it mean for someone to be 1 point more intelligent than another person?

[–] spikespaz 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

If you took a test as a child, it was probably WISC-V.

This assessment provides the following scores:

A Composite Score that represents a child's overall intellectual ability (FSIQ)

Primary Index Scores that measure the following areas of cognitive functioning: Verbal Comprehension Index (VCI), Visual Spatial Index (VSI), Fluid Reasoning Index (FRI), Working Memory Index (WMI), and the Processing Speed Index (PSI).

Ancillary Index Scores are also provided: The Quantitative Reasoning Index (QRI) ; Auditory Working Memory Index (AWMI); Nonverbal Index (NVI); General Ability Index (GAI); and the Cognitive Proficiency Index (CPI).

Which seems very reasonable to me. This was originally intended to be an aptitude test, not strictly to measure your intelligence.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's the composite score, and especially the heavy emphasis on it as some innate unchangeable thing, that's the questionable part.

[–] spikespaz 1 points 1 year ago

Absolutely, but it's still useful. Allegedly Alfred Binet did not approve of the eventual applications of the test he designed.

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