is IQ really MEASURABLE?

Instead of IQ I would put the world INTELLIGENCE. Can Intellligence be measured? What is Intelligence after all? As a teacher I have encountered all sorts of people. I have taught students who pick what you say before you even say it, others who pick what you say in a split of a second, others take a minute or two. Others you have to repeat over and over again in order to understand what you mean. While others no matter how hard you try just don;t get it.

You can measure a persons IQ by weighting that persons brain with an ordinary weight scale. Try it at home if you don't believe me.

I think we cannot use the word measure , we could only roughly gauge it only yea.

Even the guy who originally created the IQ test (his name escapes me) admitted that an IQ wasn't a true, genuine rating of a person's intelligence. If the creator doubts his own creation, then it can't be very reliable can it?

Hello, There is a normal level of IQ that is needed to go on. IQ is not something that improves as you grow old. It is a fixed thing a child is born with. Some recent statistics show that IQ decreases with smoking. But there is no hard evidence to support that argument. Memory capacity can vary a lot during a lifetime, but IQ remains fairly unchanged. Now, there are some jobs that need high IQ. You really can't deny it, but that doesn't really mean that a person with lower IQ will be considered a handicap. There are other capabilities of human beings that are needed in other forms of tasks. Now the algorithm that is used to calculate IQ differs greatly in structure. So the IQ ratings also differ. An 150 IQ means you are a grandmaster. A 110 is the IQ of quite an intelligent person. I have 120 IQ, but I don't feel any urge to increase it any further. IQ can't be the only measure of how capable I am as a human being. God bless you

IQ can measure intelligence and logical reasoning...........but NOT CREATIVITY........

It's hard for me to say whether or not IQ is measurable because everyone is smart about something. I don't think it's fair that people are judged on how smart they are because of their grades in school or their IQ test results. IQ tests don't measure how good of a person you are or measure a lot of basic knowledge. I don't think any of should judge one another on the capacity of our brains because none of us truly know our full potential.

in my country they the basis of sectioning is based on their last year average grade. they have bracket like 90-99% the student will be on the top section and have different teaching as they are all smart. sometimes if they see that you have talent then they will put you in the talented section and etc. but IQ is not really the basis. IQ sometimes is just a common sense of the person.

In my opinion, IQ screening is more of an achievement test for evaluation on rate or degree but not an accuracy of measuring a person IQ. IT is measurable based on their procedures but not conform that a person who has low IQ means has poor mentality. This are ground measures used by schools in choosing or sectioning their student applicants to know of he is capable to meet the standards. But, this is not an assurance that a person who has high IQ is said to be intelligent. IQ has many categories since our brain has many functions that completes many tasks in a person. Some categories are logical reasoning test, academic, constructive, reasoning and many more tests that able to read how you understand a certain figure. People have different ways on logical and reasoning thinking abilities and this makes a person totally unique from the other therefore they have other categories IQ that they excel. It does not mean that all with high IQ are smarter. There are cases some has LOW IQ but when practicality reasoning and other things are applied do excel rather some who has high IQ has do not excel on same category. IQ is based on your collected knowledge and ideas. The bad side about this IQ tests especially to the students who received low IQ test result, is the feeling of discrimination. Though, the said department must clarify some thoughts pertaining to this issue. For, this give some student a bad effect that instead increases their self- esteem they will have inferiority complex because the comparisons for other students who said to have high IQ or average IQ are present.

Good question the one you have. I also wonder if it's really possible to measure the IQ. For example, people who are good at maths are the ones that have studied it, and that's why they can solve those calculations. Making an IQ test to a person who studied Humanistics, for example, with math questions, is a way to make that person get a low score, as is not trained in maths. IQ tests should be done specifically for every different person, so we can get a real measure of his or her intelligence.

Technically, IQ is measurable. Realistically, it depends on one's mental and emotional state at the time he is taking the test. The test is not conclusive. Forever dumb? Or forever smart? There is no such thing. Numerous factors influence a person's development and a person's will to learn plays a big part. God bless you, too, alexysabelle.