You're not listening. It's fairly successful for measuring intelligence in subjects whose socio-cultural experience is similar.
Very. But it doesn't necessarily tell us they are less intelligent. It tells us they are underperforming. Like Einstein did at school.
No, apparently it hasn't been explained well enough and needs reiterating till it gets through some people's skulls.
It has little to do with native language - it is about cultural concepts. You can ask an African child in his own language a question that relates to something alien to his culture and he's going to still misunderstand. In the 30s, children from tribal areas on coastal east Africa were shown black and white photographs of European scenes. People thought these children were stupid not to be able to comprehend anything in the photos until they discovered that they had no experience with mentally converting B&W shades into images and could not therefore see what the Europeans saw. All they saw were various shades of unintelligible grey. Were they stupid? No. Some people find it impossible to interpret those holographic images produced by steroscopic photos. Are they stupid? No. It's beyond their experience. Many things in IQ tests are based on buttumptions about what people understand by what they are being told, and that isn't always the case. Therefore, IQ tests can easily fail to measure intelligence variations across cultures.
..which may mean a difference in the way they interpret data, not that they are stupid. When an east Asian designs a set of instructions for how to set a digital watch, they put the watch at the centre of the picture and point instructions at it. In the west, we would write a list to follow. This parallels the way east Asians read - ideographically, not serially. Again, this affects comprehension in a test and speed at interpreting the data.
Exactly what I am saying.... you can't devise a universal IQ test!
Then you better read what I said above. The difference in interpreting data may be subtle, but significant. Combined with differing socio-economic experiences in the home and school, the IQ (NOT intelligence!) gap is widened.
A rose by any other name in this case. Tell me why a representation will have a different impact from a symbol for IQ testing.
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