Name: Wade Zhang
Course name: SEMINR
Professor’s name: Teddy Chocos
Due date: 9/13/2011
How should people face to IQ tests?
IQ tests are just like rapiers. It hurts people to lose confidence, but meanwhile, it
encourages people to catch up to higher achievements. Recently, the IQ tests have caused a huge
influence on people’s routine life. No one can deny the fact that the IQ tests are already waved
the standard of nowadays society that to estimate intelligence or foolishness. The contents which
concern the IQ tests actually are not so pointed and accurate like most of people thought, and the
scores of those tests do not possess any significance.
The contents about IQ tests actually are not so pointed and accurate like most of people
thought. At the very beginning, all of those questions of the IQ tests are created by human beings.
Might be those people are extremely educated, well-read, and intelligent, but they are still not
omnipotent. They always firmly believe that they can test the other people’s intelligence quotient
through using their questions which are created by their intelligence quotient. This is ridiculous
and the tests do not have any scientific basis. An artificial test absolutely cannot estimate all of
the people’s IQ because every person are independent and distinctive. Those who think they are
intelligent and have a very high IQ, cant regard people as machines that to estimate their IQ by
using the same standard. And, there is no any evidences can prove those answers the tester given
are absolute correct. People have their own minds and the abilities to distinguish right and wrong.
No matter how authoritative the tests are, it still cannot toughly put the opinion that the world
which we are living in came from a huge explosion into every person’s mind. All of things
human beings know now are confirmed by those advanced sciences and technologies which are
researched by human beings. There are only those people who get very high scores from the IQ
tests are willing to believe that the test can represent their intelligence are fantastic because they
like use this consequence of the tests to parade how intelligent they are. But what they do not
know is the joyfulness of showing off will not keep for a long time.
The scores of the IQ tests do not possess any significance, and the performances of those
people who participated in such test are completely different with their scores. It is unsure that
the people who got extremely high score from such tests can also catch up to great achievements
in all areas. They are not geniuses because in some areas, they perform just like idiots. For
instance, Isaac Asimov, the author of “What is Intelligence, Anyway?” illustrated that “Because
you’re so goddamned educated, doc, I knew you couldn’t be very smart”. (1) From Asimov’s
perspective, people who are good at academic area, probably not also good at the other areas.
Namely, maybe the academic area which could prove that he is smart is the only one he is good
at in. Therefore, high scores does not mean to a high intelligence. And most of those people who
get absolute success in various areas are not the smartest but are somewhat of fool.
The right way to face to such tests is to do what people originally want to do, and to do it
persistently. Harvard University once made an investigation, and the objects were a group of
young people who were in the parallel situations, as in intelligence, educational backgrounds,
and environmental conditions. It is found that 27 percent of the total people had no objectives; 60
percent of the total people had vague targets; 10 percent of the total people had distinct but short-
term goals; only 3 percent of the total people had the plain and long-term aiming. In after years,
they were going on their own road of life. 25 years passed, Harvard University made an
investigation to those people again. As a result, 3 percent of the total people, were striving
persistently towards a one and only way during those 25 years, became the extreme successful
figures in the various areas of the society; 10 percent of the total people, gradually achieved their
short-term targets, and became the professional people in various career, and lived in the classes;
60 percent of the total people, were living and working in peaceful life, but did not get any
accomplishments, and lived in the lower classes; the rest of the total people, were not only living
in unhappy life and could not find any targets but also always complain to the other people, to
the society and to the “world” which did not give them chance, and to themselves as well. Those
two investigations illuminate that intelligence is not so important for people to get success, but
the goals are. Consequently, the most significant thing for people is that they have to know what
they should do at anytime, and to do that persistently. Thus, people should regard the IQ tests
without any care.
It is cannot be denied that the IQ tests already existed in the world, but it rests with
people themselves to decide that how to face to such tests. In fact, every person can be a talent,
as long as people are not influenced by such tests, but to do what they good at. Thus, now people
should know how to face to those IQ tests—to do what they should do, and do it persistently.