http://www.newscientist.com/article...ls-why-a-high-iq-doesnt-mean-youre-smart.html
Read the whole three page article; it's worth it.
Do you think your IQ is representative of the quality of your everyday reasoning? If not, do you think it is too low, or too high? Do you have any noteworthy examples of supposedly intelligent people acting foolishly, or vice versa?
"A high IQ is like height in a basketball player," says David Perkins, who studies thinking and reasoning skills at Harvard Graduate School of Education in Cambridge, Massachusetts. "It is very important, all other things being equal. But all other things aren't equal. There's a lot more to being a good basketball player than being tall, and there's a lot more to being a good thinker than having a high IQ."
The problem with IQ tests is that while they are effective at assessing our deliberative skills, which involve reason and the use of working memory, they are unable to assess our inclination to use them when the situation demands. This is a crucial distinction: as Daniel Kahneman at Princeton University puts it, intelligence is about brain power whereas rational thinking is about control. "Some people who are intellectually able do not bother to engage very much in analytical thinking and are inclined to rely on their intuitions," explains Evans. "Other people will check out their gut feeling and reason it through and make sure they have a justification for what they're doing."
Read the whole three page article; it's worth it.
Do you think your IQ is representative of the quality of your everyday reasoning? If not, do you think it is too low, or too high? Do you have any noteworthy examples of supposedly intelligent people acting foolishly, or vice versa?