What is the point of Intelligence testing?
Intelligence testing is used a lot in education and in industry, but what is the point of intelligence testing?
Power of The Mind
Unfortunately the primary test utilised is the IQ test which is more a test of knowledge rather than intelligence.
Many people rely on the tests and I believe the intention of intelligence testing is to show how likely a person is to be able to succeed in either their learning ability or a particular job role. There is however an issue with most IQ tests since they test a persons knowledge often in an area which is not ubiquitously taught throughout the community.
This means that when you think of intelligence testing you must also think about the individual who is taking the test, bearing this in mind how can human resource departments have a bank of tests which they use to test potential employees when they don’t know the employee. Similarly when a teacher has a new class and uses an intelligence test to define what stream or category a pupil fits into.
IQ Testing a Science?
The resultant effect makes the usefulness of intelligence testing questionable since pupils fail to reach their full potential because they are told they are not good enough and potential employees, who don’t know about the subject matter of the test are told they are of a lower and sometimes higher intelligence than required . It is very dangerous to use this information isolation since it can result in the wrong decision being made.
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