Measuring raw intelligence, like measuring any other subjective three-dimensional entity, challenges scholars to an eternal conundrum. What is it? Who decides?
Nevertheless, science keeps trying, refining its wandering methodology, keeping up with the times.
My siblings and I, and others, got tested for our supply of intelligence in grade school. The results were withheld, ostensibly because someone thought we were better off not knowing. But child mythology holds that my sister Linda was somehow able to break through the ropes and holds a unique knowledge of them.
The discredited questionnaires and problems are heavily skewed to the European culture, and therefore give questionable results, but just enough to provide ammo for a garden-variety white supremest. So, like the bygone skull-measuring techniques, I’ve never given them much credence.
But, 60 years later, it would be fun to know the results of that grade school test, at least to compare myself to other privileged white folks of European culture, who took the same quizzes years ago.
So Linda, is it true that you got a look at those scores and squirreled them away or is that just a family myth? It doesn’t change anything, our lives are what they are. But, with the internet holding forth on everything, it would be entertaining to know, just so I could enter the number into some nonsense internet comparisons.
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Postscript: Indeed, she has the numbers. She graciously but cautiously shared mine, and inkled others. I promised not to tell. So let the fun begin, and let the internet soothsayers and gurus tell me the inner-hidden-deeper-secret-meanings to all this foolishness.
Thanks for the info, Linda. Sorry about your score. Just kidding.
