Project 100,000 was a social program started in 1966 that lowered minimum medical and IQ standards for acceptance into the military. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announced the program as a way to train poor men and give them the discipline, self-confidence, and job skills needed to break out of poverty after their military service.…
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After 18 months of test development and web engineering, the Reasoning and Intelligence Online Test (RIOT) has been released!
These results show that it is normal to have some cognitive strengths and weaknesses.
“. . . the Bates and Gignac (2022) studies are the best evidence currently available about the impact of motivation on IQ.”
A person at the 90th percentile in processing speed among people aged 80 or older performs worse than over 75% of people under 30.
For most tests, it is best to have a time limit that is tight enough to be practical, but not so low that the test starts measuring mental speed. The challenge is striking that balance.
The RIOT fills a void in intelligence testing. Coming in Spring 2025.
I have concluded that any currently existing claims of an IQ score for Albert Einstein are not credible.
Illiterate people’s thinking probably remains grounded in their everyday experience. When these people take a test that solely measures abstract thinking, they perform poorly. This does not make them stupid. Instead, it shows the disconnect between their natural mode of thought and the unfamiliar test content.
