planet puma wrote:Sort of unrelated, but when do they give IQ tests to kids? Is IQ still regarded as the foremost method of scoring intelligence?
IQ tests are popular, but they really haven't been seen as a reliable method of determining intelligence for give or take 80 years.
IQ refers to the Stanford Binet tests and these were used in the early part of the 20th century. They were biased in all sorts of nasty ways.
There have been many different ways to measure intelligence and different tests after that one (Wechsler; US Army Tests). They all share the problem that there aren't singular methods of measuring something as complicated as human intelligence. It just is way too complicated to reduce to a single number.
If you are interested in this you might check out Stephen J Gould's Mismeasure of Man. It is a history of measuring intelligence and human ability.
The biggest part of measuring intelligence is defining it. What is it? The traditional view is that person that understands some complicated math problem or what not, but I think it's pretty clear that's just one small part of it. Intelligence allows you to understand and control your environment, and you can do that in many ways - alot of them not measurable by standardized tests.
For the past idk 3 months or so, Mrs aw has been staying home during the week with aw jr and working Saturday and Sunday while I watch him. Without a doubt we both say staying home is harder and while I have a cush job she's an er nurse dealing w a bunch of [expletive].
Thankfully, that schedule is ending, and we'll both be working m-f and aw jr is off to this little montesorri preschool which is cheaper than daycare. Don't know if it's better for him than continuing this for anoth er r few months though.
AWvsCBsteeeerike3 wrote:For the past idk 3 months or so, Mrs aw has been staying home during the week with aw jr and working Saturday and Sunday while I watch him. Without a doubt we both say staying home is harder and while I have a cush job she's an er nurse dealing w a bunch of [expletive].
Thankfully, that schedule is ending, and we'll both be working m-f and aw jr is off to this little montesorri preschool which is cheaper than daycare. Don't know if it's better for him than continuing this for anoth er r few months though.
Get ready for A LOT of colds and respiratory viruses. The first winter at daycare is a rough one. Nothing better than that phone call on a busy day telling you your kid has a fever, so someone has to go pick him up.
