I was curious about my IQ (everyone tells me that I’m one of the smartest most intelligent person they know) so I bought a standerdized IQ test from the bookstore. What I discovered was that the test was more about what you knew and remembered than how intelligent you were. One question I remember had a list of book titles and asked which title was not a novel Charles Dickens, the only way I could have known the correct answer was to have all his book titles memorized.
I was curious about my IQ (everyone tells me that I’m one of the smartest most intelligent person they know) so I bought a standerdized IQ test from the bookstore. What I discovered was that the test was more about what you knew and remembered than how intelligent you were. One question I remember had a list of book titles and asked which title was not a novel Charles Dickens, the only way I could have known the correct answer was to have all his book titles memorized.