How to Think Like a Genius 45-Robust
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Rick Rosner)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2018/05/22
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Have these gone through any peer-review or scientific processes that can be considered robust?
Rick Rosner: I highly doubt it.
Jacobsen: Okay, those can be put under heavy doubt.
Rosner: People can publish IQ tests online. Most of the more conscientious amateur IQ test makers do try to do or go to great lengths to try to correlate their scores with other peoples scores on difficult tests. There are tests that are more reasonably normed. They call it norming, or coming up with standard normal values for various scores. Some of them are people’s wild guesses. When you take a really — there are some IQ tests that are professional written or created or normed that have been around for 100 years now, the Stanford Binet is one of these venerable professional IQ tests.
If you want to take that, at least in LA, you have to pay a psychologist 500 bucks to be administered to you or your kid to get your kid into a high-end school.
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