IQ tests ‘unconstitutional’

What IQ Tests Test

As we approach the centenary of the first practical intelligence test, there is still little scientific agreement about how human intelligence should be described, whether IQ tests actually measure it, and if they don’t, what they actually do measure. The controversies and debates that result are well known. This paper brings together results and theory rarely considered (at least in conjunctio...

Israeli military IQ tests: gender differences small; IQ gains large.

From 1971 to 1984, the Israeli Defence Forces administered two tests unaltered that qualify as IQ tests. These were the Matrices and the Instructions tests. The former is an adaptation of Raven’s Progressive Matrices, similar to the original in that there are clusters with progressive difficulty and an escalation of difficulty throughout the test. The raw score range is from 4 to 35. The Instru...

Phishing IQ Tests Measure Fear, Not Ability

We argue that phishing IQ tests fail to measure susceptibility to phishing attacks. We conducted a study where 40 subjects were asked to answer a selection of questions from existing phishing IQ tests in which we varied the portion (from 25% to 100%) of the questions that corresponded to phishing emails. We did not find any correlation between the actual number of phishing emails and the number...

IQ tests are not for machines, yet

Article history: Received 29 September 2011 Received in revised form 3 November 2011 Accepted 22 December 2011 Available online xxxx Complex, but specific, tasks—such as chess or Jeopardy!—are popularly seen as milestones for artificial intelligence (AI). However, they are not appropriate for evaluating the intelligence of machines or measuring the progress in AI. Aware of this delusion, Detter...

Could a Constitutional Amendment Be Unconstitutional?