Based on some points brought above, I think it’s generally better for people not to get tested for IQ. I agree with Daniel Goleman that standard IQ tests are merely a part of a larger whole in which a person’s entire intellectual makeup is encompassed. A person might seem like a genius based on his IQ scores and yet not know how to express or decipher emotions like other humans. There are a lot of different facets to a person’s intelligence that are unaccounted for in conventional IQ tests. A number on a scale, which doesn’t even show the whole picture, may limit a person’s motivation as well as have him constantly compare himself to others. Why would we want to box ourselves into an ordinal category if we’re so much more colorful and multi-dimensioned than it?
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