"Test The Nation" results....
http://badpsychics.com/thefraudfiles...hp?storyid=512
But what do IQ tests really measure ... ?
From the page......Originally Posted by MRT
But what do IQ tests really measure ... ?
and includes questions on logic, perception and visual reasoning as well as testing your powers of observation and memory.
I think it's widely accepted that they principally measure the ability to do IQ tests.But what do IQ tests really measure ... ?
I have a friend who got a 1st class honours degree in biochemistry, a Masters degree then a PhD, then worked up to become senior R&D manager for a major chemical/pharmaceutical company. But he couldn't do an IQ test to save his life.....
But going back to the "Test the Nation" results, the article says that the average IQ in the UK is 100, but the winning group (surgeons) only averaged 101, and every other group was below the notional national average. It's difficult to comment on this without seeing all the individual scores, but it would seem that either the tests/results were not properly "normalised" (for which read "fiddled"), or they just happened to pick a bunch of thickos to do the tests.
But anyway, the clairvoyants came last, quite a bit below the next group (removal men).
Q.E.D., I think.
M.
Indeed, in this instance, let us not worry about the method, let's just laugh
Just what I was going to put!
We can't take this result seriously in any way but it is highly amusing.
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Either that or it vindicates everything physicians say about surgeons.
Nurse, this patient needs a skeptidectomy...Either that or it vindicates everything physicians say about surgeons.
Whether the figures are "normalised" or not, the clairvoyants would still come out bottom, I presume. But wouldn't they have known the questions before they were asked, as they are Cvs, and wouldn't they have known the answers too?I think it's widely accepted that they principally measure the ability to do IQ tests.
I have a friend who got a 1st class honours degree in biochemistry, a Masters degree then a PhD, then worked up to become senior R&D manager for a major chemical/pharmaceutical company. But he couldn't do an IQ test to save his life.....
But going back to the "Test the Nation" results, the article says that the average IQ in the UK is 100, but the winning group (surgeons) only averaged 101, and every other group was below the notional national average. It's difficult to comment on this without seeing all the individual scores, but it would seem that either the tests/results were not properly "normalised" (for which read "fiddled"), or they just happened to pick a bunch of thickos to do the tests.
But anyway, the clairvoyants came last, quite a bit below the next group (removal men).
Q.E.D., I think.
M.
But, don't tell me, it doesn't actually work like that
Now now, you know they're not allowed to ask their spirit guides anything which might result in personal gain. Like lottery numbers...Whether the figures are "normalised" or not, the clairvoyants would still come out bottom, I presume. But wouldn't they have known the questions before they were asked, as they are Cvs, and wouldn't they have known the answers too?
But, don't tell me, it doesn't actually work like that
They knew the answer to one the questions started with a 'J' or it could have been a 'T' though
Absolutely. It might expand or contract the range of results, or shift the frame up or down, but the relative positions would stay the same.
Perhaps they deliberately gave the wrong answers, to throw everybody off the scent.
M.
Well, I have to say, I never thought of that oneAbsolutely. It might expand or contract the range of results, or shift the frame up or down, but the relative positions would stay the same.
Perhaps they deliberately gave the wrong answers, to throw everybody off the scent.
M.
Who deliberately would have given the wrong answers though - the psychics or their spirit guides?Well, I have to say, I never thought of that one
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