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'''IQ''' or '''intelligence quotient''' is a measure of a person's cognitive ability. IQ is measured with tests that contain cognitive tasks that are very general and do not require specialization/schooling to answer, thus overlap with common sense. It is assumed no training has taken place for the IQ test, but modern IQ tests are also fairly sturdy i.e. resist the training effects by only teststing untrainable | '''IQ''' or '''intelligence quotient''' is a measure of a person's cognitive ability. IQ is measured with tests that contain cognitive tasks that are very general and do not require specialization/schooling to answer, thus overlap with common sense. It is assumed no training has taken place for the IQ test, but modern IQ tests are also fairly sturdy i.e. resist the training effects by only teststing untrainable abilities such as processing speed, bandwidth and logic. | ||
Performance on different IQ tests correlates somewhat (r = ~0.5) which means IQ tests can assess someone's ''general intelligence'' (''g''), i.e. someone's ability to act intelligently in ''any'' cognitive task, even those which haven't been tested. A task in which people's performance correlates with g is said to be ''g-loaded''. | Performance on different IQ tests correlates somewhat (r = ~0.5) which means IQ tests can assess someone's ''general intelligence'' (''g''), i.e. someone's ability to act intelligently in ''any'' cognitive task, even those which haven't been tested. A task in which people's performance correlates with g is said to be ''g-loaded''. | ||