IQ and Critical Reading

humanities2014
Sun, 31 Mar 2013 10:13:56 +0000

I have a high IQ (a little less than 140) but I’m still struggling in CR, so your statement definitely has exception. Maybe it’s because English is not my mother tongue (but I’ve told that I have a great analyzing ability and mind from my teachers at boarding school), maybe it’s lack of practice… I don’t know. I don’t know the truth, but I really hope people do not use this to make an assumption of other people. But I really do think, it’s more about strategy once you hit certain point. If you get unusually low score, then it primarily means you haven’t read good books to enhance your reading ability, or your range of vocab is rather limited, rather than your IQ is low. My bro’s IQ is 147, and that’s what he got from the legit test when he was 7. Still he had to practice to get better score in CR. I really think it’s all about practice. Well, I guess IQ may affect a little bit, but most of it is about practice. I don’t know what your cases were, but I saw many kids who raised CR score from the mediocre (500, 600) to the top (750 or more) just by practice.

With your logic, OP, all of the school and college matters (i.e. education) should be unfair, because people with higher IQ are faster understanding. They might be excel and study further and further, when people with low IQ are stagnant in the course of study. But nobody says education itself is unfair, because effort actually takes the most part to be a successful student. I think if somebody says “CR is unfair because my IQ is low,” it’s just a pure excuse of their laziness. If you tried hard already, try harder. Why not?

And your experimental group is way too small to make such generalization. From your students? From CC members? Come on, aren’t you better than that? Why don’t you start the study with at least 5000 students and then post something like this in public? Is it due to my high IQ that I understand that you need a bigger experimental group? Haha