Complicated Quote by A. N. Wilson

Historically, absolute IQ scores have risen substantially as we've changed our environment so that more people go to school longer.

— Alison Gopnik

Because IQ tests favor memory skills and logic, overlooking artistic creativity, insight, resiliency, emotional reserves, sensory gifts, and life experience, they can't really predict…

— Diane Ackerman

What needs to be debated is whether IQ tests, as currently designed, are fit for purpose, and capable of measuring the changing nature of…

— David Olusoga

Some of the problem with IQ tests stems from the inescapable reality that human intelligence is staggeringly complex and multifaceted.

— David Olusoga

We're in an era in which we want to believe people have roughly equal potential. IQ gives the lie to that.

— Marty Nemko

IQ is equivalent to chip speed, and superior chip speed will enable certain things that inferior chip speed will not enable. The same is…

— Charles Murray

I can well imagine that certain writers, even writers that we'd consider today very great writers, may not necessarily have tested highly on IQ…

— Daniel Tammet

IQ is a very important predictor, not just of academic success, but of economic success.

— Charles Murray

The effectiveness of a group of people is not determined by their IQ but by how well they communicate.

— David Brooks

There was a survey done a few years ago that affected me greatly. it was discovered that intelligent people either estimate their intelligence accurately…

— Harvey Pekar

Even though a high IQ is no guarantee of prosperity, prestige, or happiness in life, our schools and our culture fixate on academic abilities,…

— Daniel Goleman

“Adaptive decision making is the quintessence of rationality, but the items used to assess intelligence on widely accepted tests bear no resemblance to measures…

— Keith E. Stanovich