I would be careful with the interpretation of your results.
Well, what I wrote was banter.
There are many kinds of intelligence. The test measures a particular kind, one that could probably be simulated (AI) with relative ease (I’m not saying it’s easy, but that what is involved is a series of tests, trials, of possible transforms, and then a checking of transforms that work for simplicity. It’s looking for an aha! pattern.
I know that I’m not as good at this now as I was when younger. A related example: I’m looking for my black waist pack, in my office, a room full of stuff. I walk through and don’t see it. We are in a hurry to leave, so I ask my 9-year-old daughter to check. She sees it immediately. It’s in plain sight. I have “tunnel vision.” Not literally. I still have peripheral vision. But I don’t interpret the full field, as I used to, only a narrower field, more central. I have to actually look at the bag to recognize it.
I trust the test as a reasonable one, that would measure a certain kind of intelligence that is highly useful.
Damn! I’m used to thinking of myself as really smart, for almost sixty years. Time to move on. Yes, I’m still smart in some ways, but I already knew that there are many ways in which I’m not, maybe never was.
What I’ve been told by doctors is that the cognitive impairments I’ve noticed are normal. People learn to compensate for them.
As age progresses, we also see a natural shift of intelligence from “fluid” to “crystallized” intelligence. The first kind is fast, adaptable and more creative, good for problem-solving, learning new things and pattern-recognition. The second kind is concerned with facts and knowledge, but also implicit knowledge/skills like how to drive a car.
IQ tests really measure fluid intelligence, less so the crystallized kind. Some IQ tests have a few questions that probe your crystallized intelligence as well, like “What was the name of the ship Charles Darwin sailed on to the Galapagos islands?” (often with 4 answers to choose from). But usually you get very few questions like those, if any at all.
Those two “kinds” of intelligence aren’t completely independent though, as one would expect your fluid intelligence has a high impact on your crystallized knowledge.
Interesting, Friendly-HI. I was pointing to something distinct from both. In the Wikipedia article, “crystallized intelligence” is not about “knowledge,” per se, but is something integrated. What has shifted for me is “fast,” when it comes to a series of new analyses of my sensory input. I’m not that kind of fast any more. However, “depth” appears to have increased.
To me, it’s important that I distinguish my accumulated experience from “truth.” It’s just my accumulated experience, my past. The present and future remain open, as long as I’m alive.
The test measures a particular kind, one that could probably be simulated (AI) with relative ease (I’m not saying it’s easy, but that what is involved is a series of tests, trials, of possible transforms, and then a checking of transforms that work for simplicity. It’s looking for an aha! pattern.
Here’s a 2010 Master’s Thesis that does pretty well on it. I remember someone came up with a better algorithm in the last year, but I’m not finding it quickly.
Well, what I wrote was banter.
There are many kinds of intelligence. The test measures a particular kind, one that could probably be simulated (AI) with relative ease (I’m not saying it’s easy, but that what is involved is a series of tests, trials, of possible transforms, and then a checking of transforms that work for simplicity. It’s looking for an aha! pattern.
I know that I’m not as good at this now as I was when younger. A related example: I’m looking for my black waist pack, in my office, a room full of stuff. I walk through and don’t see it. We are in a hurry to leave, so I ask my 9-year-old daughter to check. She sees it immediately. It’s in plain sight. I have “tunnel vision.” Not literally. I still have peripheral vision. But I don’t interpret the full field, as I used to, only a narrower field, more central. I have to actually look at the bag to recognize it.
I trust the test as a reasonable one, that would measure a certain kind of intelligence that is highly useful.
Damn! I’m used to thinking of myself as really smart, for almost sixty years. Time to move on. Yes, I’m still smart in some ways, but I already knew that there are many ways in which I’m not, maybe never was.
What I’ve been told by doctors is that the cognitive impairments I’ve noticed are normal. People learn to compensate for them.
As age progresses, we also see a natural shift of intelligence from “fluid” to “crystallized” intelligence. The first kind is fast, adaptable and more creative, good for problem-solving, learning new things and pattern-recognition. The second kind is concerned with facts and knowledge, but also implicit knowledge/skills like how to drive a car.
IQ tests really measure fluid intelligence, less so the crystallized kind. Some IQ tests have a few questions that probe your crystallized intelligence as well, like “What was the name of the ship Charles Darwin sailed on to the Galapagos islands?” (often with 4 answers to choose from). But usually you get very few questions like those, if any at all.
Those two “kinds” of intelligence aren’t completely independent though, as one would expect your fluid intelligence has a high impact on your crystallized knowledge.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystallized_intelligence
Interesting, Friendly-HI. I was pointing to something distinct from both. In the Wikipedia article, “crystallized intelligence” is not about “knowledge,” per se, but is something integrated. What has shifted for me is “fast,” when it comes to a series of new analyses of my sensory input. I’m not that kind of fast any more. However, “depth” appears to have increased.
To me, it’s important that I distinguish my accumulated experience from “truth.” It’s just my accumulated experience, my past. The present and future remain open, as long as I’m alive.
Here’s a 2010 Master’s Thesis that does pretty well on it. I remember someone came up with a better algorithm in the last year, but I’m not finding it quickly.