Intelligence Question (IQ)

[Fruiteloop]

Going back to your original sort of inquiry here @Fruiteloop
It seems to me you are on the search for a "greater whole" of measured intelligence
IQ is just our current best predictor of outcomes for success
And it only accounts for about half of what's going on, cognitively

Different tests will account for slightly different things, but here are some main things

Spoiler: Accounted For

• Fluid Reasoning: The ability to solve novel problems and recognize hidden patterns.
• Working Memory: The capacity to hold and manipulate information in your head for short periods.
• Processing Speed: How rapidly and accurately you can perform simple or complex cognitive tasks.
• Verbal & Visual-Spatial Skills: Comprehension, vocabulary, and manipulating shapes.

Spoiler: Not Accounted For

• Emotional Intelligence (EQ): The ability to perceive, control, and evaluate emotions.
• Practical Intelligence (Street Smarts): Common sense and the tacit knowledge required to navigate real-world, everyday situations.
• Creativity & Divergent Thinking: The capacity to generate out-of-the-box ideas, connect unrelated concepts, or produce original art/science.
• Rational Thinking Skills: The ability to critically weigh information, avoid intuitive cognitive biases, and make sound decisions.
• Motivation, Conscientiousness, & Grit: Character traits that significantly predict educational or career success, which do not correlate strongly with psychometric logic puzzles

I think the difference is that the first four are well defined well the second five are not well defined.

It is not the the second five do not exist it is that they are so far away from what can be standardized that they are not standardized.

Emotions just are very fuzzy, navigating space is not something paper tests can examine at all.
Creativity requires knowing differences, Rationality requires a different kind of "complex" working memory.
Motivation is about organization in real life, a kind of complex naviational working memory.

This is a great video explaining the truths and fictions regarding IQ

What you probably want to pursue knowledge of is g factor, this guy talks about that a bit

The g-factor is like the horsepower of your brain.

The Car Engine Analogy
Think of your mind like a car.

• Your brain has different features: a GPS (navigation skills), a stereo (language skills), and power windows (memory).
• The g-factor is the engine under the hood.
• A strong engine makes the GPS load faster, the stereo run smoothly, and the windows roll up quickly.

Why Scientists Use It
In 1904, a scientist noticed a pattern: people who were good at math also tended to be good at reading, logic, and music.
Because these skills seem connected, scientists concluded there must be one central mental energy fueling all of them. They named this "general intelligence," or the g-factor.

Spoiler: bonus

I think the horsepower analogy is too much of a unilinear concept.

We could say that Intelligence as the g-factor is more like a 4D space of what people can do.

A longer 1D object is not going to explain what a shorter but larger 4D object can do.

On subtests of the IQ tests we have sections where parts are involved.

It is not that people scan all the parts faster to be smarter it is that the see all the parts together as one thing.

This way when they manipulate them in memory to fit together it is easier for them.

To get things where they need to be one has to know where they are first and how to combine them.

So in my view people that perceive more can get things where they need to be.

Executive function can be separated from perception but if they are equal together then we have the general ability or g-factor.

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So seeing what all goes together (Perception) and getting them where they need to be (executive function) is what I think intelligence is.

People vary in both of these.

But it is that people also if they have better vision are seeing more at once not just seeing it faster.

The reason people use the words faster and slower is because if you see the answer you get the answer fast.

But this is because you see everything at once. You don't move your eyes faster.

So intelligence is more about parallel processing.

The more you can get done at the same time.

This is not multitasking because colloquially that is based on speed not expanded perception, tho there are people called supertaskers.

 

[Wyote]

But this is because you see everything at once. You don't move your eyes faster.

So intelligence is more about parallel processing.

The more you can get done at the same time

I think in some sense you are right, it is a certain kind of real time coalescence

Current testing is just the best way we've been able to capture it so far