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Originally Posted by brecklundin
Interesting 'tests' did the first at 780wpm @ 100%. But those were not tests of comprehension.
So called "comprehension" is a misnomer on these tests. Comprehension, to my thinking, implies a deeper understanding of topics and concepts. These tests measure memorization and regurgitation. Better to read slowly and once then to read fast, memorize, as say for a test in skool, then never actually know what the stuff you memorized really means.
I have a big chip about the quantization of everything, including 'intelligence'. Learning is a joy and should never have been led down the dark path of measurement. Quantization also detracts from truly learning a subject for a large majority of people. The goal is no longer learning the goal becomes "the grade".
Sure some people absorb more then others but timed testing and the way we grade (otherwise known as culling) in the US is appalling and detrimental to learning. Better if testing was used to guide students into areas which they excel rather than simply cast them aside if they do not fit into the predetermined 'right thinking' mold our PTB's want.
Some form of grading is inevitable but for every regurgitator there are the ruminators who take a topic in, then over time, on their own, process the information into something which exceeds those who can simply take tests well via route memorization.
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The thing about so-called "Intelligence Testing" is that only measures your ability to take the tests, nothing more. IQ derives from an attempt to combine varying data points into a single quantifiable factor and there's evidence some of those points may have been the product of falsified data.