The dark history of IQ tests - Stefan C. Dombrowski
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- Explore the history of IQ tests; how they measure a person’s intelligence and the ways they have been used to justify scientifically baseless ideologies.
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In 1905, psychologists Alfred Binet and Théodore Simon designed a test for children who were struggling in school in France. Designed to determine which children required individualized attention, their method formed the basis of the modern IQ test. So how do IQ tests work, and are they a true reflection of intelligence? Stefan C. Dombrowski explores how the tests have been used throughout history.
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“Our potential is one thing. What we do with it is quite another.”
― Angela Duckworth
Goodness of this thought varies as if u are talking about potential that is predetermined or something other
The first thing to do is to find its gradient
But the IQ test isn't about measuring one's potential.
@@vasudevraghav2109 Potential is unknown. So no one can tell you what you can be, what you can achieve. It's up to you what you will be.
@@djayjp yeah that's true. Even Alfred binet believed IQ is not fixed or ones potential isny predetermined.
3:01
That poor soul with 3 IQ...
What about the guy with 3 IQ 😂
He got 3 points for getting his name right.
LoL
He has the mental capacity of plastic.
@@johnsalchichon777 nope. Probably spoke some other language other than English and only knew very basic English.
Everyone saying the IQ test is flawed but would love to tell everyone that they got a 140 on it.
Thats because we know we ain't a genius
I got a 136 on a Mensa test, this is probably the 3rd time I've ever mentioned it.
@@allovdem lol
@@allovdem You got 136? That's it?
@@dentatusdentatus1592 unfortunately
IQ test makers: Makes test to know which children need help in studies
Humans: Nice, a new tool I can use to discriminate
@marco conti you know the help is also offered to white immigrants right?
We like to be special. To be special, we need others to be less special than us.
@@AM-we8hj damn that's....true
THANK YOU!
@@AM-we8hj but I like to be me, a living being
I wish school was more like this. If i was taught things with this much passion, detail and importance then I would’ve always paid attention
Agreed 🙌
Agreed
More like teachers and not schools themselves. I used to love physics until high school. Before i had a teacher that would explain things almost like telling a story and with a bunch of curiosity facts; that made want search more about the subject and consequently study more. When high school arrived, the teacher was so boring that I lost complete interest; probably the only reason I still had good grades was because of solid physics foundations from the previous teacher.
Teachers are people. That’s the sad truth. They don’t love what they do, and they don’t get paid much to do it. Especially effecting is this: there is no competition. There isn’t a surplus of teachers competing for the best, but in fact not enough
I agree yet at the same time I have a very charismatic college math professor and I'm still not understanding jack. But that's probably another issue haha.
I love this animation style!!
@Austin Martín Hernández lol
have you ever heard of something named kurzgesagt?
Nice animation, but very misleading. The Nazis BANNED IQ tests, after they discovered Jewish-German children scored consistently higher than German children.
Q-Q rlly???
jconjello me too!
"Famous quote"
― famous person
@Sabina Gupta no
wow how inspiring
That was inspiring
wow that was so deep, thnks to the famus person, my life will change for the best
I'm crying
"people who keep copy pasting my "iq quote" everywhere are assholes"
- Stephan Hawking
How can i copy this comment? Asking for a friend
Or is just triggering to someone who brags about their IQ.
*Stephen
5:41 "Individuals can't be categorized by a single numerical score" please someone say that to the school system!
Literally no one from the school system thinks that people are categorized only by IQ. Grades in school are a very useful tool, not only to determine a student's conscienciousness, but also to find who has difficulties learning. BUT WAIT, that is not to say that it is the sole factor for the value of an individual, as there are many other aspects that make someone unique. You are simply misrepresenting the school system, which I don't find to be noble.
@@henrilemoine3953 I think that everyone is born in a different way therefore not everyone has the same type of intelligence. For exemple a brilliant writer that has a very good creative type of intelligence might be bad at math because despite his creative genius he has a lack of logical type of intelligence which is the type of intelligence that (for some reason) is privileged at school. This system doesn't measure emotional intelligence either, for exemple as long as a person with low emotional intelligence (like for exemple a bully) is good at solving problems this person will be rewarded by the school system anyway. This can be easily explain by the fact that "creativity" and "kindness" can't be objectively graded, so the system put a number on the only thing that it can put a number on which is "problem solving". This is an extremely unfair system that I definitely did not misrepresented in my comment.
@@stevesoprano8113 very true........ But they don't put a number on ' Problem Solving' they put it on ability to gain marks by screaming every detail they can......
See in real life when u want to calculate u can just look it up in books or computers thats why we have them......
But no no no no!!!!! Lets see their hard drives working.......
Or to china
@@henrilemoine3953 I also disagree with this. Grades do not measure learning deficiencies as you like to believe. And if you watched this video, you will find that trying to grade learning deficiency has no scientific backing and is difficult to measure with consistent results. Tests have to be rigorously designed by industry professionals to produce whorthwhile results and I guarantee no shool makes their staff do this every year for every curriculum. At most they'll do it for the standardized tests, but I refer you to T.E.D ED's video on that subject to learn why that is also ineffective in its current state and why it should change.
I’ve got a low IQ, I’m going to uni in September to study nursing, I was told I would never be able to do my GCSEs, I did them and passed. I’ve been tested loads for “issues” and disabilities, I can however excel at non-verbal reasoning though. 😊
Aww good luck with your journey, don’t let these people discriminate you ❤️
Congrats, this proves that you don't need to get a freaking 140 on a MENSA IQ test in order to succeed in life the way YOU want to succeed.
Work hard, and stop worrying about your IQ. It doesn't matter if you have an average IQ, or a genius level IQ. You can still do whatever you want with your life.
Congrats again!
Honestly, good for you! I hope your future prospects go well :)
@@lunariedawn to some degree, it does, but it isn't the greatest way to mesure overall. no one really knows what is since intelligence is relative
@@mo_7199 I'm not talking about intelligence though, I'm just saying that (especially from my own experience), IQ doesn't measure someone's intelligence, but their ability to see patterns and solve problems
In no way does that make one with a higher IQ smarter than one with a lower IQ
When I was 7 my school forced my mom to take me to an IQ test because they wanted to prove I have a learning disability. I scored 139. They decided on their on I have some sort of mental disability and I had regular meetings with the school psychologist where I just draw and played with a hamster, until my mom figure out what they are doing.
I didn't have any disability, I was just really bored in class so I didn't do any homework or participate that much, and I was a very sensitive kid so when the teachers got mad at me I used to hide under my table and cry.
This treatment caused me a lot of problems later on and some of them still effect me to this day, mostly mentally.
The school system is messed up. They think that if a kid doesn't learn like everyone else, it's because he they have a problem. I learned faster then most of my class, so I was bored of doing things I already knew over and over. Now I find it hard to finish assignments and learn properly because I never had to, and now that I need to I have no learning skills.
If instead of taking me out of class to play with hamsters they let me learn faster, I would most likely do better at uni now.
If I was bored I just drew cartoon characters.Most of my teachers were cool with me so they let me get away with it.After awhile of being bored they let me skip 9th and 12th grade. I just realized how lucky I was thanks to you.
I don't think the school system is the only problem,
From what you wrote i think your parents are also the problem,
@@blackpepper2610 My parents were not the problem. I don't know what I wrote that made you think that, but they are fighting hard for me every day, and they always had. Of course they are not perfect, my twin sister and I were their first daughters and I admit they made some mistakes (which they didn't repeat with my little sister btw), but they are both great parents.
Its challenging to raise twins as your first kids. I think I didn't mention my twin sister in my original comment because I didn't think it mattered, but she went through a similar thing.
Right now my parents and my sisters are my only family, and I couldn't wish for a better one. I'm sure you didn't mean to offend me by your comment but it's very important to me that you'll understand it wasn't their fault. They always supported me and I've seen them yelling at teachers and embarrassing themselves to make sure nothing like what happened at elementary school will repeat itself.
Lol your story seems like my story🙄
סתם ערוץ שלא חיוני לעולם בשום צורה i see, looks like I'm wrong, sorry about that
i wanna show this to my IQ obsessed middle school math teacher for ruining little me's love for math and making bigger me have a panic attack whenever i see something that resembles a math question
Those teachers are the worst, I' m really sorry you had to go through that, really. I went through something similar.
If you feel curious about math, my advice is, dive into it. Her "opinion" is just as valid as yours, you have genuine interest, wich is extremely valuable. Don't let another person's words crush your motivations.
What exactly are you trying to prove? Most of this video is bs. IQ scores have crazy validity, its just that some are good and some are bad.
Relatable
The narrating, the animating, the details and the information included in Ted-ed's videos are very genuine and vivid.
Nice animation, but very misleading. The Nazis BANNED IQ tests, after they discovered Jewish-German children scored consistently higher than German children.
@@21mikeross However, they did still do what was said in the video before banning them
@@21mikeross OMG LOOOL!
Maybe they were just salty because the Jewish-German children scored higher lmao.
this video is telling what people want to hear by sugar coating the truth, IQ is the best modern indicator of intelligence we have until today. This is backed up by a lot of sicologist and professors like Jordan poterson himself. But people don't want to believe it cause its not a pretty thing to believe
@@enriquesuarez7113 Very true mate
Yeah I had to do an "IQ test" for part of my depression diagnosis; it actually tracks visual problem solving, audio comprehension, short & long term memory, and comprehension. The point is to look for underlying factors that may contribute to my depression and past. As it happens, instead of having average values across the board, I have wildly high scores in some places, and average scores in others. As a consequence I take and process in more sensory data than most people, but my memory is slightly uneven, resulting in a learning deficit. It also explains why I tend to think out loud and notice a lot of random details. Sometimes I enjoy taking off my glasses just to give my brain (and eyes because eye strain sucks) a rest.
That's really interesting
Wow
ok
Oh cool! I know depression can affect memory and cognitive function. I have depression too and when it's really bad my grades at school plummet. I can't focus, I feel like I'm in a fog, and it's harder to remember things. I do worse at work as well.
100% me
This reminds me of the Gifted program my elementary school had, in which some kids who scored high enough on IQ tests got to leave the classroom and do fun stuff like make books and have parties. Many parents and teachers hate this program. All the students can enjoy and benefit from fun learning activities, not just the ones who score highly on IQ tests. Besides, it's damaging. The kids in the Gifted program often get inflated egos while other children feel as though they are not "gifted," all because of a flawed test that neglects to measure many other important qualities.
@@Jordan_Dossou It's alright. You were just a puppy.
I feel so much more luckier now...
I've been in a gifted program during school and I don't think what you're saying is fair at all. While yeah, some of the kids there were assholes and the program gave them an unnecessary ego boost, this really wasn't the common trend. Most of us were just nerds who were bored at school and wanted to do something else for a change. These tests weren't useless, they did an excellent job at sorting out the exact kids fitting for the program - fast learners who enjoy learning and aren't reliant on school. You're neglecting to mention the reason these programs exists in the first place - to help people connect. It was an opportunity to finally meet and interact with people similar to me, in an environment where I wouldn't get bullied just for asking the teacher questions or for having good grades. As a result most of my friends at the time were from that program, and it was extremely important for my mental health. Yeah, obviously having fun learning activities is always a good idea for anyone, but cancelling these programs won't help with that. It's just going to give intelligent kids even more of a socially miserable time at school.
I never liked the "gifted" program for the very reasons you mentioned. My best friend was in that program. They went on monthly field trips, played games and participated in a lot of fun activities. They were able to leave class early to do this. Their curriculum challenged their intelligence, further allowing them to grow. This doesn't happen with "average" children. Theyre not challenged or praised for the gifts they have. They're not recognized. It's wrong. So many people are geniuses in disguise.
My best friend always considers me being as gifted as she...however, I was never in a gifted program.( I did land in an advanced reading classes only to get shoved into remedial math classes, lol) I can reason, deduct and predict like no else I know. I.Q tests only test a certain type of intelligence; there are many types of intelligences. The IQ test doesn't take this into consideration. Consequently, a lot of gifted children are left behind because some test said they didn't deserve to be challenged.
@@Niccole-oq8wo I fully agree that the average student should be pushed forwards and challenged more, but how is cancelling the gifted programs going to help with that? Stopping someone from achieving their potential isn't going to help anyone else achieve theirs. All you're doing here is addressing jealousy. If you closed down these programs the budget they use up would just go back into the regular boring school system and everyone would lose. If you think others should have similar opportunities, then open up new programs built for different types of intelligence - don't close the current ones.
Again, you're forgetting to consider the reason these programs exist in the first place - they aren't there because of some nonsensical superiority complex, they're there because people with high IQ tend to be challenged less by school, want to learn more and seek connections with others similar to them. You can argue that this doesn't correctly measure intelligence all you want, but the social environment there is vastly different from what would have happened if they opened it up for everyone.
I was in an awful social situation in school at the time. That was the only place where I actually got to meet similar kids without worrying about bullying all of the time, and I know that I'm not the only one who had that experience. That's a really important thing to consider, especially when talking about younger ages. It sucks that not everyone gets to have an experience like that, but it doesn't mean nobody should.
im glad this is finally pointed out. i used to consider myself as a "smart" person since i did a great job academically. but i started to change my mind and i dont think that im brilliant anymore cause in fact there are so many friends of mine who have a lower academic score are incredibly intelligent than i am. so.. that's amazing dude
Man, the thing that makes Ted-Ed Stand out is its unique way of explaining and analyzing curious topics no one thinks about, and turning it into an amazing video for us to enjoy. Thank you Ted-Ed and continue dazzling our Imagination
Their actual secret sauce is to tell you things that you wanted to hear whether there’s truth to their claim or not. People like to “learn” things that they already believe.
and uses whatever studies they can find to prove their point without a hypothesis
Every time I watched Ted-Ed I can feel that my IQ increase.
@@kushal1137 you literally copied and pasted the same thing at least 4 times
Increases*
~~~
Me too
@@DCBfanboy imcreqes*
i have bad news for you, thats not how IQ work
Honestly, most people just brag about their IQ score and never really do anything brag worthy with it
They just talk about it
Turns out no one wants to talk about it because there are 0 replies 😝
Honestly, you just made that up and just assumed that that's true cause it makes you feel better
@@enriquesuarez7113 You're the other side of this coin. Congrats
@@enriquesuarez7113 have you gone to quora?
@@lezanji1884 do they brag a lot there? Don’t give me wrong I hate people who brag about their IQ as well
I am glad that the video makes the point that even though IQ testing has been used incorrectly in history, it isn't something that is useless. We may never have a perfect iq test, but we can use it (and other tests) to learn how to benchmark the human mind. Just as we have with physical tests. However, there will always be exceptions.
One day, my lecturer taught us, when suddenly our topic changed dramatically from prostitute's psychological well-being to IQ test.
I remember when he said this to us
"Only fools believe in IQ test. Your future ain't bound to mere numbers and calculation. Your life is better than that. You determine your own life, not those numbers."
Still, his words make huge impact upon my life.
Your IQ score predicts your income level better than your grades, parent's education, parental income, or socioeconomic index. (Strenze 2007, n=58,758)
@@glassplotful but still numbers can not control your life or your future
@@ronaldmendez9205 unless you are dead?
Clear evidence shows that they do and its not just number it is the score of your ability
@@ronaldmendez9205 Yes it does. Literally just watch a classroom. You can observe how people learn faster than others. Yes there are factors such as higher income aka extra education but IQ determines how quickly you learn a new thing. If people in the real world can absorb certain skills significantly faster than others, then they will be more successful in life. It's simple logic, and the concept that everybody has absolutely equal potential and that there are no biological factors that affect the way you interact with the abstract world is like putting your head into the sand.
3:50 I like how the graph line transitioned into Earth's outline..
I LOVE THIS ANIMATION STYLE !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Scientists: Nooooo, you can't just use this test we designed for a very particular population at a specific point in time to test everyone for everything
The entire world: Haha test printer go brrrr
More like "Liberalism and Colonialism" (instead of the entire world)
@@MiroMayne Why liberalism?
I am from Italy and none does IQ tests here, sadly because I would have liked to be in a class with similar IQ but couldn't
@@Michael-jq1hl You are the country of the great Maria Montessori
@@user-kw8ff9ne8l yes but sadly she didn't run the finances of the country 😂 (I know she died in the 50s)
This is very relevant Info.I also love this animation style - its great for teaching facts of these kinds - the bright primary colors, geometric shapes and movement styles continually morph amongst themselves, yet accordingly to an intrinsic design scheme. And its consistent throughout the entire piece. It makes the learning so easy and it's like going on just a great fun ride!
My goodness, my teachers doesn't even know what IQ stands for.
That's one bad teacher. Although it could be a momentary problem in recall . . .
You just learned it here.
Based on the grammar in that sentence, that comes as absolutely no surprise.
Intersexual quotient
@@elliottbrown1329 Oh look, here's another one, he who thinks English language is supreme and it forms the criterion of ultimate judgement of a person.
I just learned what I would’ve learned in online school for a whole week compressed into 6 minutes.
Your school is spending a whole week on the history of IQ testing?
@@thebatonmaster 40 students. One teacher. 6 minutes?
Wisest 1 I truly respect your opinion. You think that. Everyone thinks differently and you thinking Ted Ed isn’t the best is 100 percent fine. On the other hand, I think that Ted Ed is teaching me all that I need to know for now. Maybe in the future it won’t be the best teaching resource. It seems that you need something a bit more on the deeper meaning side. I agree with you though, the IQ test is great and Ted Ed didn’t cover that in the video. They didn’t necessarily cover everything about the history of IQ in this video, but I think it covered enough for us to know the basics of the history. If you want anything else to be covered just let me know. Also Ted Ed explains it in a more fun and colourful way. That may help students pay attention more and learn more from Ted Ed than what they’re learning in school.
Thank you very much for your opinion. This helped me and it will help Ted Ed get better in the future
@Wisest 1 but the title of this video stated "the dark history of IQ" so expect this will be in a negative standpoint of view... but they still managed the video to be light at the conclusion of this course... you should have been more understanding, not the other way around...
Equestrian _Mickey&Casperfan schools primarily goal is not to fill your head with random knowledge
But it uses them as a way to teach you skill like critical thinking which you obviously dont practice by watching passively a video
At least in my country
Video: "Do I.Q tests work?"
Me who got a perfect 10: "Pretty sure they do."
This makes me feel reasonably comfortable about my stupidity and lack of intelligence, until later on when the feelings return.
I had tooken me one of these tests one time. They said I got me a 200 IQ. I knew me was that smrt.
I don't believe in IQ I believe in hardwork
You should start watching Rick and Morty
this comment is underrated
Waiting for that sweet sweet r/woosh
Game up Hard work is very inefficient.
I am currently addicted to this channel. The animation is sublime and smooth. I enjoy every second of each video, that sadly doesn’t last forever. This channel is truly great.
I love that it does topics on anything
A far leftist channel with full of propaganda
i'm embarrassed to admit that i still feel extremely upset and awful about always scoring low on these tests. i've always been considering myself as 'not too shabby' in terms of intellectual capacity, however, when it comes to iq testing i get very, very lost in all those patterns. thank you for the video - i never really knew about the true horrors of such a seemingly trivial thing.
I didn’t take an iq test, but a different type when I was diagnosed with my autism that measured a lot of stuff like memory, processing speed, etc. I cried a lot when I found out I scored below average, but now I’m embarrassed of that reaction, and the fact that I still feel a bit ashamed, but it’s my opinion you also shouldn’t have to feel embarrassed for having a reaction to the strains put on you by society. You can acknowledge something is not logical without beating yourself up about it. Anyway all this to say, if you still feel bad, try not too be too hard on yourself.
To begin with, IQ tests are highly outdated and controversial, and the same person taking it can rank different scores at different days. Not to mention the ignorance and damage that categorizing children based on score numbers of a standardized test that is said to rank “intelligence” does.
It doesn’t score intelligence at all, it only measures a small part of a logical-math thinking. Intelligence is a whole cognitive process that is always evolving, it can’t be measured in a standardized test!
And the fact that nowadays in 2024 people still believe it does is beyond me!
"IQ tests only measure your ability to take IQ tests"
-Smallant1
Lmao people really taking this seriously when I'm quoting a twitch streamer.
@@kevinhodge4730 They don't, though? If you look at a test's biases, like getting a higher score if you go to school, it explains why it is kinda effective. Someone who didn't go to school would probably be less successful than someone who went to school. That doesn't mean the test scores potential accurately. IQ tests generally touch up on creativity, and other intelligence types.
It is correlated, but because of other factors. It isn't even correlated that strongly.
@@asrnyigit4040 Lookup _spurious relationship_ . Another explanation is that those who are smart happen to attend more school and also happen to score higher on IQ tests. Also, IQ tests only measure one "type" of intelligence- general intelligence. IQ tests do not attempt to capture such loosely-defined concepts as "creativity."
k h how? Where are all the high IQ elites
@@kevinhodge4730 Meanwhile Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Guido, Bolsonaro, etc...
Strange how it doesn't. All success earned comes from Emotional Quotient traits. You can be smart as a whip but if you can't control your impulses, aren't resilient in the face of failure, have no discipline, etc. then you'll be a failure in life regardless of how smart you are. The two are completely different things.
It should be noted that both Simon and Binet understood that the test they had created could be used for malicious intent. They cautioned against taking the results too far, but in the end they ended up having little say in how their original idea would be applied
yeah man. governments will always utilize tools in maliciuous ways. gene editing is next
IQ cannot describe u....... It is not even fixed, it varies at different times of a day and depend on many unaccountable factors
@Ashutosh Dubey we don't even know whole brains functioning of various part, let alone full body and we start to measure it with unfaithfull tests....... ' I'm only human after all don't put ur blame on me' ......
The problem is the amount of variation. Sure, if you're hungry, tired, depressed or anxious, ofcourse it is going to play a role in your final result. Other factors do contribute to a fluctuating intelligence range as well. But that does not mean that it is not accurate. The correct manner to observe and analyze such psychometrics (personality tests like big five count as well), is to keep in mind that although the score can and does shift slightly during the day or various mental and physical states, it never results in a dramatic change in IQ score nor does it correspond to a lack of general intelligence.
Unfortunately, we know that while IQ is in part decided environmentally, it is mostly genetically influenced; meaning that it is determined at birth.
Can you manipulate it through environmental means such as nourishment and/or education? Definitely.
Does that mean there is not a fixed cap? No.
So, I would say that each person has a vareity of potentials, abilities and talents, most of which are settled the moment that one is borned. Intelligence (or general intelligence if you'd like) is one of those potentials, and the whole concept of potential is that there is a fixed cap; you can work on yourself and possibly reach your best version, but after that, you hit a conceptual "roof".
@@daedricdragon5976 agreed.....
Don't get angry for not replying equally lenghty answer😅😜
@@daedricdragon5976 also degree of these factor vary differently
Im shaking my head right now...
Where do you get your information from, Vasudev?
I am studying Psychology and therefore confront myself with IQ and tests on a regular basis, and in fact there are many IQ tests with a very high reliability.
That we do not fully understand all components of the brain yet, does not have anything to do with how IQ tests work.
So please, enlighten me where you get your insight from, that IQ tests have low reliability and do not work.
Everyone in comment section: "Those who boasts about their IQ are losers"- Stephen Hawking
Deep Inside: I wish my IQ was higher.
fr
So do we, mate; so do we.
Yups
I wish my IQ was higher
Yeah I know, we all sometimes have a superiority complex.
I'm a 15-year-old teenager, and I took A MENSA IQ test. However, I took it online, so I'm not sure how reliable it is.
I'm assuming it's somewhat reliable. I got 112 on it.
That's average...I think.
I think IQ tests are logic puzzles.
Idk, it could just be me who thinks this way.
0:20 Here in india the education system is like... "hey this kid is super intelligent let's give him all the resources and take the money from the kid who is struggling "
F
This is so true. Help isn't given to those who genuinely need it.
We only learned from the best...the British 😌✌️
or the rest of the world for that matter
@@mrs_morrow318 ye and most of us preach all of our holy texts, but when it finally comes to actually adopting the ideals in your life, then its not your ideals anymore
History is for us to learn from yet we keep repeating the same problems - cyclical occurrence
But THIS time it will be different! Promise!
@@Linus89 true it will be worse..... 😂😂😂😂😂
@@Linus89 but seriously..... We will try our best to be better ☺️
Believing the false history of those that write it is a mistake too
Man, I love this channel! TED- Ed videos are so informative and so instructional. I feel like I always learn new things from their videos.
had a psychology lecture on the topic of "history of intelligence tests" came here for a visual representation. really appreciated the effort put into these lessons!
Beautiful video and super interesting! I'm kinda amazed at how the used color pallet on this video is so small and it came out so pretty and clean
You guys rock! Please keep posting more! Your videos are informative and amazing to watch. I learn something new and exciting with each video and I believe it helps me to increase my capacity to think in ways I couldn't have done alone. Thank you :D
Reminds me of the movie “The Thinning” where you were judged/killed based on your test score.
Don't bring up that cringy film. I get your point though.
Uh oh, logan paul? Def not.
The book was good, idk about the movie. If Logan Paul’s in it it probably sucks
Nah man it reminds of Promised Neverland where 23 kids are stuck in a farm and they don't know it until two of one of the smartest and eldest kids find out.
Go check it out, i don't wanna reveal some spoilers here
Dont tell me its that logan paul movie
This isn't a dark history of a test, it's a dark history of government eugenics.
Intelligence matters
i agree, this is a dark title, also known as clickbait title!
@jesse shaver IQ tests are no indication of intelligence, sorry. There are brilliant and average and below-average people in terms of intelligence in all groups and all tribes.
@@ledam2654 your 2nd sentence is non sequitur to the 1st. you have no clue, sorry.
@@legalfictionnaturalfact3969 And IQ tests only showcase how well someone can take an IQ test. They, again, are no indication of intelligence. Sorry.
Judge people by their actions and accomplishments. Not by a test.
Clicked on a link to an IQ Test
I got Rickrolled
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Can we for a sec just appreciate how TEDed has been improving their animation every episode (not that it wasn't already great)
Entered a private school in 1970 at the age of 11, and took the Binet test.
After two years I took the Binet test again.
I.Q. was 30 points higher.
I was in a classroom with 9 students and two teachers. One had a Ph.d and the other a Masters.
Environment can indeed have a positive effect on one's intellect.
But to dismiss any inherent biological differences on the basis that other things have an effect is dangerous nonsense.
Why is the voice of all Ted ed narrators so soothing
Another interesting and beautifully animated/directed lesson! Thanks, Ted-Ed!
Did you know;
"The longest wedding veil was the same length as 63.5 football fields. ..."
Why did they make it that long?
Ah, yes. Football fields. The best measurement unit.
Scrolled down to see this~ well that was random and not too related to the subject, but cool fact ( ͡• ͜ʖ ͡• )( ͡• ͜ʖ ͡• )( ͡• ͜ʖ ͡• )
Thanks for increasing my IQ
Omg
As a novice after effect user, I'm terrified by the amount of layers of the work and the effort the went into this video. Damn.
3:00 everybody gangsta till you get an iq of 3
To think I paid attention to my IQ which made me miserable 🤦🏽♀️
What was your IQ?
IQ does not measure your success, only your intelligence. Best advice is not to look at your results or if better, don't do an IQ Test at all.
(I hope I did not miss a joke or anything. I hope.)
@@ArnieOcfemia There is actually a very strong correlation between childhood IQ and success later in life.
When I took the test it came is 138
Made me feel like a genius for a while but I’m pretty sure it was fake
Juzer Morudwala If an iq test is online, it’s usually fake. But don’t worry about it too much, as people across the intelligence bell curve can all be very successful
Wait for someone comment here to end up in r/imverysmart
Chimi 😂😂😂😂tomorrow. And it’ll be a Reddit user
There are so many 😭
im learning more from ted ed and other educational channels on youtube during quarantine than i did all of this year in high school
Awesome study, well presented. Thanks 4 taking time sharing.
I loved the animation. Big hands of applause for the animation team.
There should be a video on history vs standardized testing
There just try it up..... Go on
There are a lot of different types of IQ tests out there. Some on them I score very high on, some not so high. I have a phd in astrophysics and was always one of the top students in every class without really studying, so I know what I got upstairs. That said, if you ask me to flip shapes and match patterns for an hour, I'm not going to score that high.
This channel has so so much knowledge . Like about almost everything lol
Please Ted ed , make a video about
" JOHN F. KENNEDY" vs history
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Agreed it was so scripted. let me explain two agents chosen a route where the car had to stop.And the street had a lot of buildings with and they didn't put a guard for every window.
*"School exams!"*
I was given my first IQ test in 7th grade in my 2nd year of public school back in 1974. It was administered to select me for the "academically talented" group the following year where they had us skip some years subjects and combine others- enabling us to graduate high school a year earlier. However no one noticed, in all my years of schooling, that I was severely dyslexic. I was diagnosed at age 50 after I commented to my Dr. that I still couldn't spell my brother Brian's name correctly.
"People who boast about their IQ are losers"
~Stephen Hawking
Anyone how boast about anything that would make him feel better than other people is an ashole.
Another amazing video as always :DD
this video is telling what people want to hear by sugar coating the truth, IQ is the best modern indicator of intelligence we have until today. This is backed up by a lot of sicologist and professors like Jordan poterson himself. But people don't want to believe it cause its not a pretty thing to believe
the graphic designer on this did an amazing job!
“A person is always better to be wise than smart , no matter what choices you make your interactions and how u get around things will only determine your life”
-me a non famous person
I don’t know my own IQ and honestly I don’t mind keeping it that way. The number does not represent how capable i am to achieve the goals i set for myself
Yes it does. It's actually a big factor on how fast and easier your gonna get your goals. Although it truly dependant on how much motivation you have to reach your goals
I can understand IQ without testing.
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Well, thats like a A- or sthng. Not to brag but, the best score i ever got was 91 :)
joke btw
@@Juhamakiviita2.0 How is that a joke?
@@Juhamakiviita2.0 I didn't get it tbh
Love the artwork in this video.... there is a nice Hergé feel to the characters.
Love the visual design of this video!
i got to say this channel has helped me alot and my brain is always aching to watch more of this
Of course its works for them,who designed that tests
Science: here’s some proven data and methodology we developed to help people :)
Authority: yesss.... but what if use it to uhm... discriminate?
Science: oh no :(
Imagine if there was a gene that made people psychopaths, would you want to detect it and stop people with that gene from procreating?
@@mouwersor I don't think there is a gene for that
@@mouwersor Fixing a problème is better then removing it
@@mehdiouabas9587 How do you think one fixes such a problem? Removing that gene out of the gene pool of course. What are the drawbacks?
@Improvement Impala He just doesn't think they'd ever come after him
Great animation and educational session as always
This was an awesome video. Thank you TED-Ed!!
IQ tests, if you make good use of it, can help identify natural abilities, interests as well as weakness. They could help save years of struggle and can tell what should one do to be at their best.
I have a sort of low IQ score. I never went to college. But I taught my self animation and now run my own business. Doing well on IQ tests just means you are good at IQ tests. It has almost nothing to do with your creative capacity.
It actually does have allot to do with your self taught learning and adaptation. Knowing you learned animation on your own and were score to run a business alone, I'm guessing you have a write high IQ
Good for you, you worked hard and you became successful. IQ tests though are probably the best at testing the creativity of a person that isn't either self report or those "think of a use or all of the possibilities" tests. Though there are people who score high in IQ tests who aren't creative at all. It's just that creative people are intelligent. The notion that you're just good at an IQ test and nothing else is false and ignores the century of literature that's been comparing the academic/career success to many tested populations. Is this evidence not enough? Or right, it's also found that IQ correlates to other aspects of cognitive abilities which you might consider as pieces of "intelligence." It's a definitional matter if you want to go down that path, but it's been found that higher IQ people have higher processing speeds (There's a .25 correlation between IQ and reaction time), score generally higher on all aspects of intelligence (ex. spatial reasoning, working memory, logic, verbal intelligence. People with higher IQs are also more capable of keeping more factors inside their minds, which if you think about it makes a huge difference in the real world or on IQ tests.
@@octave11thpianist58 but there isn’t one universal iq test you know, it’s different for different fields lol
@@Entergalactic Yes there is variability between different subintelligences
Iq test only boost people ego. Lmao prisoner in chain actually think they are deep that's why some are desperate in defending there position.
I know it is not related to the subject of the video but your voice is so pleasing
This channel teaches me WAY more then school
As a psychology major, I can say that this topic is explained quite perfectly
*Army Alpha*
*Army Beta*
For a more nuanced discussion of the Flynn effect, see James Flynn's TED Talk.
I love the animation on this one!
Impressed these kinds of videos ...Well explained
It's not the test that's bad, but how people are using it. It should have been kept in its original purpose, to help kids by figuring out where they may struggle. That said, I would have been sterilized in Virginia in 1924.
“Don’t let an iq test determine your success in life”
Thank you for creating this amazing video :D😁
Love the animations, you make Learning fun!
The first thing to know about IQ is that you can increase your score by at least 20 points through training.
The second is that IQ scores increases in countries that improve their school system. (mentioned in the video, along with other factors that improve learning like affordable and available health care)
It works well as a "general knowledge" screening, but that is about it.
I suspect you could use IQ tests to compare different groups in a country and see if there is systematic biases against certain groups, given that we would expect any random grouping not based on academic results to be unbiased. (Things like skin tone or gender comes to mind.)
The best iq test is how many ted ed riddles you get right
Hmm, then. have a very low IQ...
I’ve been hung up on this lately and this video is helping.
When we ASSUME... this presentation certainly explains a great deal about many of our current misconceptions about intelligence.
What do you mean? i AM the dark history of IQ test.
You haven't seen nothing yet 🤣💀💀💀
Alexandra Baker,
So using an IQ test to justify racism, forced sterilization and murder are not dark?
As far as I know it wasn’t a IQ test that was used for the selection of army in US, it was a personality test which is something totally different. The Flyn effect is based on the lack of new norms. A large group of people must be tested to determine the norm. It is highly possible that IQ of 100 is no longer the average and that the distribution has grown larger.
I looooove the color palette used in this video!!!
This channel is gold !!!
Hi ! I did get trough an IQ test (yeah a real expensive one, with psychatrist and all the stuf) so if you came across this video and if you have further questions I may be able to help you.
Should precise that I passed it in France, and in french (because... i'm french) at the age of 13, so my answers could not be absolutly accurate but I'll do my best
How could you take an iq test? Should you have a specific reason to take it, can you take it just because you want to?
Oh. I just thought it would be cool to take one too, but I'm broke...
I come from Belgium and I also did two when I was 5 and then 9, I had skipped a year the first time and we considered skipping another one but it never happened bc too much complications.
Wow you got through it so cool
Amelia Smith how can you pass an iq test
I HAVE GOOD NEWS!
MY IQ TEST CAME BACK NEGATIVE!
me and many friends who are neurodiverse and have learning disabilities were refused support in high school because we scored high on an iq test, i ended up dropping out of school because of it. the systems in place have an incredible detrimental affect on students yet they are still the standard
Then why dont you get help for it. If you dont go out of your way to compensate for any inability, thats your fault. I got ADHD, and atleast put effort to get counselling and medication. How tf were you refused support too. Is your school that underfunded it cant afford another paycheck for an EA?
Thanks Ted-Ed you reminded me of my "below average" result :(. Now i know it shouldnt be compared to other people especially, my classmates.