IQ Is A Myth

Ah, the ever feared, respected and false Intelligence Quotient score. We have all lived our lives under its tyranny and for no other reason except that we have. Now comes a study shedding light on something I've always known.

Intelligence cannot be scored like a football game with winners scoring higher and losers scoring lower. A study published in the journal Neuron on Wednesday, determined that three factors — reasoning, short-term memory and verbal ability combine to create human intelligence or “cognitive profile."

The study’s senior investigator, Dr. Adrian Owen, who is the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience and Imaging at the university’s Brain and Mind Institute says, “When we looked at the data, the bottom line is the whole concept of IQ — or of you having a higher IQ than me — is a myth. There is no such thing as a single measure of IQ or a measure of general intelligence.”

If you'd like to read the study's abstract, it's HERE. If you'd like to take the test from the study, click HERE.