Alfred Binet (French: 1857–1911) was a French psychologist who invented the first practical intelligence test, the Binet-Simon scale. His principal goal was to identify students who needed special help in coping with the school curriculum. Along with his collaborator Théodore Simon, Binet published revisions of his intelligence scale in 1908 and 1911, the last appearing just before his death.
Jason Richwine, formerly of the Heritage Foundation, (he was let go), the problem: he co-authored their position paper opposing immigration reform; and then somebody discovered that his PhD thesis at the Kennedy School was dedicated to the proposition that Hispanics have lower IQs than white people. The dissertation, uncovered by Dylan Matthews of The Washington Post, titled “IQ and Immigration Policy,” was accepted in 2009 by Harvard’s Kennedy School of Public Policy. In it, Richwine argued that there are genetic differences in intelligence between races, and that they will persist for generations to come. He’s a disciple of Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray whose book, The Bell Curve, made a similar argument back in 1994.
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The London School of Economics is embroiled in a row over academic freedom after one of its lecturers, Satoshi Kanazawa, an evolutionary psychologist who published a paper alleging that African states were poor and suffered chronic ill-health because their populations were less intelligent via low IQ levels, than people in richer countries.
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Satoshi Kanazawa, former columnist at Psychology Today, also wrote an article (since pulled, and which got him fired from the magazine) about the attractiveness of the different races of women, (concluding the claim that Black women were the least attractive). {It has been found that men who make statements like this are generally intimidated by Black women. The apparent cause is that they have "Small Penises" which make them feel inadequate for sex with Black women: This because of the Black woman's "Supposed" preference for large Penises}.
The intelligence scores came from work carried out earlier this decade by Richard Lynn, a British psychologist, and Tatu Vanhanen, a Finnish political scientist, who analyzed IQ studies from 113 countries, and from subsequent work by Jelte Wicherts, a Dutch psychologist.
http://www.photius.com/rankings/national_iq_scores_country_ranks.html
Countries are ranked highest to lowest national IQ score. (the number on the right is the percentile).
| 1 Singapore 108 2 South Korea 106 3 Japan 105 4 Italy 102 5 Iceland 101 5 Mongolia 101 6 Switzerland 101 7 Austria 100 7 China 100 7 Luxembourg 100 7 Netherlands 100 7 Norway 100 7 United Kingdom 100 8 Belgium 99 8 Canada 99 8 Estonia 99 8 Finland 99 8 Germany 99 8 New Zealand 99 8 Poland 99 8 Sweden 99 9 Andorra 98 9 Australia 98 9 Czech Republic 98 9 Denmark 98 9 France 98 9 Hungary 98 9 Latvia 98 9 Spain 98 9 United States 98 10 Belarus 97 10 Malta 97 10 Russia 97 10 Ukraine 97 11 Moldova 96 11 Slovakia 96 11 Slovenia 96 11 Uruguay 96 12 Israel 95 12 Portugal 95 13 Armenia 94 13 Georgia 94 13 Kazakhstan 94 13 Romania 94 13 Vietnam 94 14 Argentina 93 14 Bulgaria 93 15 Greece 92 15 Ireland 92 15 Malaysia 92 16 Brunei 91 16 Cambodia 91 16 Cyprus 91 16 FYROM 91 16 Lithuania 91 16 Sierra Leone 91 16 Thailand 91 17 Albania 90 17 Bosnia and Herzegovina 90 17 Chile 90 17 Croatia 90 17 Kyrgyzstan 90 17 Turkey 90 18 Cook Islands 89 18 Costa Rica 89 18 Laos 89 18 Mauritius 89 18 Serbia 89 18 Suriname 89 19 Ecuador 88 19 Mexico 88 19 Samoa 88 20 Azerbaijan 87 20 Bolivia 87 20 Brazil 87 20 Guyana 87 20 Indonesia 87 20 Iraq 87 20 Myanmar (Burma) 87 20 Tajikistan 87 20 Turkmenistan 87 20 Uzbekistan 87 21 Kuwait 86 21 Philippines 86 21 Seychelles 86 21 Tonga 86 22 Cuba 85 22 Eritrea 85 22 Fiji 85 22 Kiribati 85 22 Peru 85 22 Trinidad and Tobago 85 22 Yemen 85 |
23 Afghanistan 84 23 Micronesia, Federated States of 84 |
1) In Japan, the school year begins in April and ends in March. In America, the school year starts in September and ends in July. Also, students in Japan have fewer days off than American students.
2) There are no school buses in Japan. In Japanese public kindergartens, mothers take their kids to school (often by bicycle). Public elementary schools and junior high schools are close enough for the students to walk to* (*in urban areas, like Tokyo, students must walk to school…no bicycles allowed. But in more rural areas of Japan, kids are often permitted by ride their bikes to school.)
High schools in Japan require passing an Entrance Exam to attend…so these schools usually require the students to take a short commute by train.
(Private schools in Japan, on the other hand, aren’t usually within walking distance from the students’ homes…so kids who attend private schools (even elementary school) can be seen commuting by train with their classmates.)
3) In Japanese public schools, elementary school kids wear street clothes to school (like in American schools), but starting in junior high, they must wear a school uniform.
4) In Japanese schools, everyone must remove their shoes at the entrance and change into (indoor shoes).
5) In Japanese elementary and junior high schools students and teachers all eat the same school lunch. There are no choices.
In most high schools, students and teachers are required to bring a (packed lunch) from home.
And very few Japanese schools have a cafeteria. Students eat lunch in their classroom at their desk.
In American schools, there are “lunch ladies” who prepare the school lunches and then serve the students, but in Japan, the “lunch ladies” cook the lunch but students take turns serving lunch to their classmates.
6) Japanese school children don’t take a shower after gym class.
7) There are no janitors in Japanese schools. The students clean their school everyday.
8) In junior high and high school in Japan, almost every student joins a after-school club or team.
9) Summer vacation is about five weeks long in Japan. It was about twice as long in America. And during summer vacation, Japanese students have to go to school many times for their school club/team practice. Also, Japanese students must do a lot of homework during summer vacation.
South China Morning Post Publishers Ltd.
School pressure to blame for Chinese youth suicides, official study finds
About 93pc of students who killed themselves did so after arguments with teachers.
China’s high-pressure, exam-driven education system is responsible for the vast
majority of suicides by schoolchildren in the country, state media said today, citing a study.
Suicide of Japanese Youth - Iga M.
Abstract
The uniquely intense stress due to the Examination Hell (shiken jigoku) not only generates a basic drive for Japan's economic success but also contributes to a high rate of young people's suicide. This paper discusses the major factors in the intensity of Japanese stress on both institutional and psychological levels. The social structural factors which convert stress to suicide are analyzed in terms of weak ego; restraint on aggression; a lack of social resources; and views of life, death and suicide. Japanese views of life, death and suicide are treated in terms of Absolute phenomenalism, the original form of Shintoism, to which Buddhism and Confucianism have been adjusted in Japan.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7233479
South China Morning Post
August 30, 2001
AMY TAN of Reuters in Singapore
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Student, 10, jumps to death over school workload
LYSHER Loh left her home in Singapore early one day but never made it to school. The 10-year-old, a top student with a cheerful personality, had confided in her father about pressure from mounds of homework and joked with classmates about what she would do if her Chinese-language grades did not improve. With her parents still in bed, she asked the maid if she could skip class that day - the start of the new term after the mid-year holidays. Minutes later, dressed in a school T-shirt and shorts, Lysher went up to the fifth floor of her apartment block and leapt to the pavement below.
Like similar incidents in Hong Kong, this suicide has highlighted Singapore's pressure-cooker schools and society's demands on children to strive for success from a tender age.
http://www.singapore-window.org/sw01/010830sc.htm
These are sample test questions from IQ Test Labs 2015
http://www.intelligencetest.com/questions/
Each question is designed to test various aspects of your mental abilities. Explanations are included where appropriate.
1. Verbal
2. Mathematical
3. Spatial
4. Visualization
5. Classification
6. Logic
7. Pattern recognition
1. Rearrange the following letters to make a word and choose the category in which it fits.
RAPETEKA
A. city
B. fruit
C. bird
D. vegetable
Correct answer: bird (parakeet)
2. Find the answer that best completes the analogy
people: democracy: wealthy:
A. oligarchy
B. oligopoly
C. plutocracy
D. timocracy
E. autocracy
Correct answer: plutocracy
3. Find the answer that best completes the analogy
languages: meaning: philology:
A. erudition
B. philosophy
C. ethics
D. semantics
E. grammar
Correct answer: semantics
4. Which one of the sets of letters below can be arranged into a five letter English word.
A. A T R U N
B. P O D E B
C. R N A S L
D. M O H A T
E. E T L R N
Correct answer: R N A S L (snarl)
1. Which number should come next in this series?
25,24,22,19,15
A. 4
B. 5
C. 10
D. 14
Correct answer: C
Explanation: The pattern decreases progressively: -1, -2, -3, -4, -5
3. Which number should replace the question mark?
17 8 5 5
13 7 5 4
6 12 6 3
10 6 4 ?
A. 4
B. 5
C. 6
D. 7
Correct answer: A
(For each row the sum of the first two columns is equal to the multiple of the last two columns)
Doing well on this test does not require a good knowledge of mathematics, because it follows none of the basic “functional” problem solving utilities of mathematics i.e. addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions: as a matter of fact, the logical mind would be whirling, trying to understand the purpose of the illogical problem as presented. These are contrived problems, they represents no real-life situations to solve, which is what mathematics were developed for. So what is necessary to do well with these tests, is an understanding of their purpose, so that the brain can accept the illogical presentation, and proceed with the logical steps to use in solving the problem. Once again, intelligence is not at issue, only familiarity with a culture which uses contrived problems to gauge intelligence.
1. Which diagram results from folding the diagram on the left?
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None of these shapes are naturally occurring in nature.
So do you think these people of the natural world, have ever
even seen shapes like the test shapes above and below?
Of course not! Yet according to the Albinos, their inability
to mentally manipulate them, means that they're stupid.
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1. Pick the piece that's missing from the diagram below
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A B C D
Correct answer: A
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1. Which word does not belong?
apple, marmalade, orange, cherry, grape
A. apple
B. marmalade
C. orange
D. cherry
E. grape
Correct answer: B
2. Which number does not belong?
4 32 144
17 28 122
18 64 188
322 14 202
Correct answer: 17
Explanation: 17 is the only odd number.
In the real world, a true test of Classification intelligence would be knowing
that this lovely plant could kill you. Would a high I.Q. child in London or New York know that?
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Foxglove
1. At the end of a banquet 10 people shake hands with each other. How many handshakes will there be in total?
A. 100
B. 20
C. 45
D. 50
E. 90
Correct answer: C
2. The day before the day before yesterday is three days after Saturday. What day is it today?
A. Monday
B. Tuesday
C. Wednesday
D. Thursday
E. Friday
Correct answer: E
3. Select the number that best completes the analogy
10: 6: 3: ?
A. 2
B. 1
C. -1
D. 12
E. 4
Correct answer: -1
4. Which number should come next in the series
1, 3, 6, 10, 15.
A. 8
B. 11
C. 24
D. 21
E. 27
Correct answer: 21
5. 165135 is to peace as 1215225 is to
A. lead
B. love
C. loop
D. castle
Correct answer: love
6. Library is to book as book is to
Binding Copy Page Cover
A. page
B. copy
C. binding
D. cover
Correct answer: page
3. Please enter the missing figure:
4, 5, 8, 17, 44.
A. 80
B. 125
C. 112
D. 60
E. 84
Correct answer: B
Explanation: The difference between the numbers follows the series 1,3,9,27,81
In the real world, a true test of Pattern recognition intelligence would be noticing that there is a
"Copper Head Rattlesnake" coiled in the leaves right in front of you.
Would a high I.Q. child in London or New York notice that?
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Clearly what the Albinos did was to "Stack the Deck": they established what was common and normal in their environments, and made that the world standard, regardless of local cultures and realities. Then they rated all others as to how well they accepted and "MIMICKED" the Albino normalcy. The Asians being naturally predisposed to Group-think, Group-action, and the mimicking of successful procedures: quickly excelled at the European Albinos newly instituted acceptance test - but at the cost of further deteriorating their ability to be true individuals, note the suicides.
Happily, no Black nation anywhere in the world, has shown any interest in copying the Asian model: that may be because the Brains of Blacks contain adequate amounts of the Melanin "Neuromelanin" which is essential for proper Brain function, and which may keep Blacks from thinking irrationally in trying to catch up to the Albino economic advantage. An advantage that was gained NOT by academic excellence or intelligence, or even work ethic. Rather, it was gained by five centuries of Armed Aggression and use of Force. Clearly the Albinos are trying to sell another line of self-serving Bullshit here. But even if a Black government tried to implement the Asian model, Black citizens would reject it. Free thought and individual expression is too important, and too ingrained in the Black mind, to do otherwise. It should also be remembered that the Albinos ways, methods, and orthodoxies, are all merely the copied and corrupted dogma of the ancient Black people who created Mans first civilizations. In matters of the mind, Black people lead, they do not follow.
The idea that intelligence can be measured by a single number — your IQ — is wrong, according to a recent study led by researchers at the University of Western Ontario.
The study, published in the journal Neuron on Wednesday, involved 100,000 participants around the world taking 12 cognitive tests, with a smaller sample of the group undergoing simultaneous brain-scan testing.
“When we looked at the data, the bottom line is the whole concept of IQ — or of you having a higher IQ than me — is a myth,” said Dr. Adrian Owen, the study’s senior investigator and the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience and Imaging at the university’s Brain and Mind Institute. “There is no such thing as a single measure of IQ or a measure of general intelligence.”
Rather, the study determined three factors — reasoning, short-term memory and verbal ability — that combined to create human intelligence or “cognitive profile.”
IQ testing is used by many educators to measure intelligence, including in public schools in Ontario.
The researchers advertised their tests through New Scientist magazine and on discovery.com. Word quickly spread around the world, far surpassing the expectations of researchers, who expected only a few thousand participants. It became the largest online study on intelligence, allowing them to gather data across demographic, age and gender lines.
The scientists also used brain-scanning (fMRIs) on some of the subjects. “If there is something in the brain that is IQ, we should be able to find it by scanning. But it turns out there is no one area in the brain that accounts for people’s so-called IQ. In fact, there are three completely different networks that respond — verbal abilities, reasoning abilities and short-term memory abilities — that are in quite different parts of the brain,” Owen said.
Among the study’s other findings:
• While aging has a detrimental effect on reasoning and short-term memory, it leaves verbal abilities “completely unimpaired.”
• Smoking has a negative impact on verbal abilities and short-term memory but does not affect reasoning skills.
• People who play video games performed “significantly better” in terms of both reasoning and short-term memory.
• Products that are advertised to improve brain function aren’t effective. “People who ‘brain-train’ are no better at any of these three aspects of intelligence than people who don’t,” Owen said.
People can still take the tests at cambridgebrainsciences.com/theIQchallenge. Owen said he hopes that 1 million people across the globe will eventually participate.
http://www.thestar.com/life/2012/12/19/iq_a_myth_study_says.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/04/education/edlife/james-r-flynn-on-rising-iqs.html?_r=0
https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=72
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_immigration_to_the_United_States#Educational_attainment
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