Today in class we took multiple intelligence tests. Hunter and I worked together. We started taking the first test and we were like ohh yeahhh! We've totally got this! This is easy! We're so smart! Go us! And then we continued on to the rest of the tests and realized we had spoken too soon. We scored a solid 7 out of 10 right on the first test, but our scores continued to decrease as the tests went on. The hardest part about the tests was the vocabulary they used and they way the questions were written. Towards the end, there were all kinds of words and sayings that neither of us had ever heard of, which made it difficult to answer the questions. It was actually really frustrating trying to answer the questions on the Australian, Chitling, and Reddon-Simons test because they were from different cultures. I have never really been exposed to any of those cultures before, which made it even more difficult.
At home tonight, I read the article You Can't High Jump If the Bar Is Set Low. I thought this article was really interesting, and it made good points that I really had not thought about before. I thought it was interesting that when they conducted experiments on different stereotypes the different results they were able to find. It almost seems as if the test results that they received were more based on a mental attitude than actual intelligence. When they were asked about their race they tended to score close to the stereotypical score, rather than what they were actually capable of. I also never really thought about the fact that there are gender stereotypes, not just race stereotypes. Overall I thought the article brought up some really interesting points.
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