Clever fools: Why a high IQ doesn't mean you're smart

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427321.000-clever-fools-why-a-high-iq-doesnt-mean-youre-smart.html?page=1

by dimas • 17 years ago

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araneae• 17 years ago

But a low IQ means you're stupid. So it's still useful information.

yannis• 17 years ago

>Bush's IQ score is estimated to be above 120, which suggests an intelligence in the top 10 per cent of the population. But this, surely, does not tell the whole story

Is there any evidence that his score is really 120?

barry-cotter• 17 years ago

Linda Gottfredson, co-director of the University of Delaware-Johns Hopkins Project for the Study of Intelligence and Society, told me:

"I recently converted Bush's SAT score to an IQ using the high school norms available for his age cohort. Educational Testing Service happened to have done a study of representative high school students within a year or so of when he took the test. I derived an IQ of 125, which is the 95th percentile."

scotty79• 17 years ago

Smart = Intelligent + Having a lot of domain knowledge

It's as simple as that.

Being intelligent can also make transforming information to knowledge easier. If you have high IQ and still are stupid that must mean that you don't pay much attention to the domain that you are stupid about.

RiderOfGiraffes• 17 years ago

Although it's been flagged dead, there are also some comments here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=922538

Clever fools: Why a high IQ doesn't mean you're smart

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