They aren’t IQ tests (or any actual test of intelligence), they are an indicator of whether or not students perform a task at the same level as historical or cross sectional groups as a proxy for aptitude. This is the same way BMI is a proxy for body composition.
Neither are great models, but they are useful for describing a population based on just a little information.
In both situations, sometimes you don’t fit the mold because youre an edge case… and sometimes you’re actually just on one of the special side parts of the bell curve.
Which acts as a statistical… standard.
They aren’t IQ tests (or any actual test of intelligence), they are an indicator of whether or not students perform a task at the same level as historical or cross sectional groups as a proxy for aptitude. This is the same way BMI is a proxy for body composition.
Neither are great models, but they are useful for describing a population based on just a little information.
In both situations, sometimes you don’t fit the mold because youre an edge case… and sometimes you’re actually just on one of the special side parts of the bell curve.