Intelligence tests {intelligence test} are good predictors of academic or vocational success. Intelligence tests assess cognitive, spatial, and/or quantitative ability. They do not measure motivation, social skill, persistence, or goals. They measure cognitive skills, deductive reasoning, verbal reasoning, numerical reasoning, or perceptual reasoning. They can emphasize speed or accuracy. They can emphasize abstract or practical situations. They use only some intelligent activities. They cannot measure intelligence itself.
test-taking ability
Test-taking ability {test-taking ability} depends on two factors: question-answering speed and number of concepts that mind can hold simultaneously.
test-taking ability: anxiety
Anxiety can cause people to be unable to take tests.
test-taking ability: learning
Test-maker experiences affect tests, and these experiences are not the same as test-taker experiences, so acquired knowledge affects test.
questions
Intelligence test must use problems that have all information required to solve the problem. Solutions must be unambiguous, with only one close to true.
types
Tests include Stanford-Binet, Weschler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS), and Weschler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC).
infants
Infant sense and motor tests show little relation to later intelligence tests.
simple test
What is the simplest intelligence or understanding test? Given examples, intelligent entities can find a rule. Alternatively, given a rule, intelligent entities can give examples. Rules take input states to output states. Intelligence involves using the rule in reverse: to get output state by setting input state.
The simplest input is constant value. The simplest output is constant value. The simplest rule is "stays the same". Rule to test intelligence must have change. What is simplest rule possible? Perhaps, one rule is not sufficient. What are fewest simple rules? What are the fewest inputs and outputs for one rule?
The simplest rule can have one input that can be in either of two states and one output that can be in either of two states. It has four states. If input is ON and output is ON, input stays ON and output stays ON. If input is ON and output is OFF, input stays ON and output stays OFF. If input is OFF and output is ON, input becomes ON and output stays ON. If input is OFF and output is OFF, input stays OFF and output stays OFF.
Only third rule has change, so there is only one change.
Machines or people observe the four examples once each and can then articulate the four rules. However, can people or machines set input and output to keep both OFF or both ON? This simple way can test understanding.
Calendar age times 100 divides into mental age {intelligence quotient}| (I.Q.) (IQ).
Physical ages have average general intelligence test score {mental age}|. Mental abilities can compare to average for age level.
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