Published on 12, July, 2020
does anyone else feel this because i feel like out of anyone i know that i'm the dumbest and that i can never be as smart as everyone else and that i won't be able to get a good career because of this. i just feel like my IQ doesn't measure up to others.
A posh fee paying school had an entrance exam consisting of three papers - English, maths, and general knowledge. There was nothing particularly special about the English and maths papers but the general knowledge paper was interesting because it contained many questions that could only be correctly answered by kids who came from culturally upper middle class backgrounds unless by chance they happened to know the answers. There were even questions relating to opera and varieties of wine.
Hah. Think I was put in for one of those scholarship exams and flunked the creative writing as I didn't want to go anyway.
Cultural bias has long been a criticism of IQ tests. I also recently looked at the 'faux pas' test by Baron-Cohen and another. I though they should really have called it the MCQ or 'how middle-class are you?' If two bottles of prosecco and and avocado cost...