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Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
The problem is that it is written by a particular type of mind, and therefore dismisses different kinds of mind. So other forms of intelligence are ignored by it.
Reminds me of the interviewee who gets attacked by crows and says "Oh no, I need to use my non-marketable skills to deal with this situation" and lasers them all down with his eye-lasers, whilst still worrying about getting the job.
NB IQ also measures the ability to think in analogy.
no
If I ran a company that needed people with a certain amount of intelligence, I could do one or all of these
Let's not throw the baby out with the bath water, do we have something better than IQ tests?
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
I've interviewed well over a hundred people, and some are convincing bullshitters, some undersell themselves. Some places I've worked for or applied for have used assessment tests as part of recruitment. sometimes I've used them when recruiting , they are very useful. No one would ever offer a role without also interviewing the candidate
Why refuse to accept the utility of these tests? They are the most scientifically valid and useful tests we have yet to devise. If you wanted apprentices, or choose people for specific training - they could be ideal.
Of course, as people get older, for some roles, tests for job-specific skills are more useful
:-??
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
There are a lot of reasons why the corporate world insists on doing thing a certain way, and you'd like to think that logic applies but it often doesn't.
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
The problem was intellect was not enough (domain knowledge was greatly superior and it required age and experience).
It's been shown that bonuses on creative processes actually inhibit the creative process. Also a person who's self-identified as being intelligent is less likely to take risks (to their own reputation) - there are things to be known for, like being hard working and honest... being known for being intelligent is a bit crap, because that is only proved if you get results (which if you look at most genius, isn't the case - what is needed is a robustness of ego for the inevitable mistakes).
So in the instances where the rising star got his bonus, he'd identified a short term win that got him his bonus and out of that team... leaving behind a legacy for someone else to clean up.
You've heard this though.. Bear Stearns and various other US banks took unacceptable risks with monies and people asked why there were no protocols to ensure these things didn't happen... no departments to watch out for these things... there used to be but systemically the "rising stars" had disabled and hobbled department at a time to serve their own ends creating a void and irresponsibility.
Even when this has been identified, the same processes are used ... because noone's gone beyond the existing mind-set and identified a better solution ... and 99% of the time people will keep doing the wrong thing if they don't know what else to do.
and if an IQ test is only 90% accurate, it's probably best to not bother and go for what you learn in an interview?
OK if you don't mind taking the extra risk I suppose
Is an interview not also based on science and psychology, in an unstructured form? How can intelligence be "unmeasureable"
Were there no clues at his interview?
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02072/TomRAINMAN_2072348i.jpg
An insensitive and inaccurate cliché
The vast majority (i.e. over 98%) of people with very high IQs are not autistic
The vast majority of autistic people do not have "special gifts", this notion is a cruel misunderstanding, caused by people thinking "Rain man" was a documentary.
Parents of autistic kids spend their lives trying to explain to people confused by this misinformation "no Johnny cannot play concert piano or do degree level maths in his head, he just eats cow poo when he finds it and can't communicate"
That's bloody brilliant !
That's bloody brilliant !