[quote]on edge wrote:
mrw173 wrote:
on edge wrote:
LiveFromThe781 wrote:
streamline wrote:
How do you IQ test someone who’s brain is still developing. Since brains do not develope the same way in any two individuals. I am very interested in child psychology, this is a waste of time.
If you go to the interview. I would suggest you question the validity of the test. Who designed it and who sponsored it. As well as the reason for administrating it in the first place.
The retards that give these tests have zero idea what they are doing. Very few parents will understand the insignificance of these tests. Many however will start to treat their childern differently and this is not a good thing.
you expect him to walk in and question the validity of the test…by what means? he doesnt know a thing about these tests. im sure these “retards” who desgined it know a bit more about it than he or you do.
Absolutely I’m going to question the validity of it, or at least the way it was administered. When they see a huge drop off from one section to another, especially with a young child whose attention span may be short, they should stop the test and resume later. Stopping the test was an option. I know it was because the woman administering it said “we’ll see if we can get through it in one session”.
Also, I’m not certain, but my impression is the first section was the 92 and each section got lower. That may be just a coincidence but it looks like diminishing interest to me.
Do you know the name of the test they administered?
Wechsler Intellegence Scale for Children[/quote]
Okay, well I can tell you that it’s generally a valid test. What may be invalid is administration of the test or interpretation of test results.
Someone who is well-trained and knows what they’re doing would be well-aware of the possible alternate explanations that you’ve mentioned (losing interest in the test, fatigue, lack of attention, etc.). The problem is that a score is a score, and any interpretation of why someone obtained a score gets very subjective. Like I said, all one can say is what score someone obtained, which represents how they did to the general population of others the same age.
I’d also be interested in hearing, as someone else suggested, if there’s a pattern of strengths/weaknesses on the test that make sense, like a strength with verbal information and memory but weakness in perceptual reasoning and processing speed. Scores that discrepant are very rare, but who knows.
Did you go to a reputable place to get this done? Was it done at school? There are so many unqualified people out there doing this stuff. I’d also second the concern about how much evidence there is out there about biofeedback. Learning and school stuff is not my specialty, but in my field, biofeedback is generally regarded as a joke. I don’t know if it differs in other areas, though.