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amichail
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Re: A proposal for reducing ignorance
« Reply #25 on: Jun 16th, 2009, 12:36pm » |
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on Jun 16th, 2009, 12:16pm, towr wrote:Well, the way it usually works is that people are aware of these flaws, and spot them in others, but not in themselves.
What you really want is not an IQ test, but a test to measure how critical people are of their own idea vs the ideas of others. And as the article shows, IQ may very well be inversely correlated with that. (And certainly the smarter people think they are, the less critical they generally are of themselves.)
I'm not sure how you'd construct such a test though. |
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It's not important what the test is called.
You could always score people in a way that rewards a combination of things, even if some subset of those things tend not to be strong in combination in many people.
With education, I believe that smart people can learn to identify those flaws you mention in themselves.
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Re: A proposal for reducing ignorance
« Reply #26 on: Jun 16th, 2009, 12:56pm » |
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on Jun 16th, 2009, 12:36pm, amichail wrote:| It's not important what the test is called. |
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True, but it is important that it isn't an IQ test; it shouldn't test intelligence because that's not what we want to measure.
Quote:| You could always score people in a way that rewards a combination of things, even if some subset of those things tend not to be strong in combination in most people. |
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There is nothing in IQ tests that tests for this. So it not a matter of scoring an IQ test differently.
Quote:| With education, I believe that smart people can learn to identify those flaws you mention in themselves. |
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Why concentrate only on "smart" people, however you want to define that; anyone that isn't mentally retarded can learn to identify and avoid most of those reasoning flaws.
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