Human Quote by David Olusoga

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

IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.

— A. N. Wilson

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

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

IQ tests are routinely used as weapons against Black people in particular and minority groups and poor people generally. The tests are based on…

— Huey Newton

“It's hard to pin down what my actual [IQ] score might be. It's silly to think that people even have one set IQ and…

— Rick Rosner

“Robert Sternberg is a professor of psychology at Tufts University and a past president of the American Psychological Association. He is a long-term critic…

— Ken Robinson

In the real world, very smart people fail and mediocre people rise. Part of what makes people fail or succeed are skills that have…

— Camille Paglia

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

— Marty Nemko

The invention of IQ did a great disservice to creativity in education. ... Individuality, personality, originality, are too precious to be meddled with by…

— Joel Henry Hildebrand

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

— David Brooks

“I agree with John Holt that the true test of intelligence is not what you know or can regurgitate from memory on an exam.…

— John Bradshaw