Post by Acer on Jul 26, 2005 23:10:44 GMT -5
Do you believe that your school grades show how smart you are? If someone's grades are low do you believe them to be less intelligent? Lets open this debate.
First off, The definition of "grade":
1. A stage or degree in a process.
2. A position in a scale of size, quality, or intensity: a poor grade of lumber.
3. An accepted level or standard.
4. A set of persons or things all falling in the same specified limits; a class.
5. A level of academic development in an elementary, middle, or secondary school
Numbers 1,3,4 and 5, relate to this topic.
It is nothing more than a level of standard. There is no way to determine someone's level of intelligence by reviewing their grades.
Many might argue that the IQ test that the educational system requires children to take is an accurate measure of someone's overall intelligence.
(They make you take that test to decide weather or not you are "GT" material)
That is not true.
IQ - The ratio of tested mental age to chronological age, usually expressed as a quotient multiplied by 100.
An IQ test, as stated above is a ratio of tested mental age to chronological age. Children learn at a slower pase. Thus it doesn't measure your overall intelligence, it only measures the rate in which you learn at, or how "fast you learn" some might say.
A perfect example would be myself. This may be shocking but I apparently have an IQ that is considered "normal". Since the test (1st grade) I have expanded my vocabulary past what most would consider the "normal standard of speech" and I know HTML 4, VB 6, VB.net, C++, XML 2, Flash 3, as well as some other languages. Which since it is a personal reference will not be used as a valuable resource in this debate just as an example.
This debate is open.
First off, The definition of "grade":
1. A stage or degree in a process.
2. A position in a scale of size, quality, or intensity: a poor grade of lumber.
3. An accepted level or standard.
4. A set of persons or things all falling in the same specified limits; a class.
5. A level of academic development in an elementary, middle, or secondary school
Numbers 1,3,4 and 5, relate to this topic.
It is nothing more than a level of standard. There is no way to determine someone's level of intelligence by reviewing their grades.
Many might argue that the IQ test that the educational system requires children to take is an accurate measure of someone's overall intelligence.
(They make you take that test to decide weather or not you are "GT" material)
That is not true.
IQ - The ratio of tested mental age to chronological age, usually expressed as a quotient multiplied by 100.
An IQ test, as stated above is a ratio of tested mental age to chronological age. Children learn at a slower pase. Thus it doesn't measure your overall intelligence, it only measures the rate in which you learn at, or how "fast you learn" some might say.
A perfect example would be myself. This may be shocking but I apparently have an IQ that is considered "normal". Since the test (1st grade) I have expanded my vocabulary past what most would consider the "normal standard of speech" and I know HTML 4, VB 6, VB.net, C++, XML 2, Flash 3, as well as some other languages. Which since it is a personal reference will not be used as a valuable resource in this debate just as an example.
This debate is open.
