The Psychology of Stupidity by Jean-François Marmion is a great book to realize how stupid one is!
Common stupid people are listed!
One of them are those who press an already pressed button of an elevator! The button light is on and you can see that it is pressed! When you see someone doing it then the author states; ‘Stupid alert!’
Now that leads us to the intelligence! Or measure of intelligence as such!
Apparently the most well known test for intelligence was actually to find the lesser intelligent kids so that special attention could be given to them!
The IQ test was created by French psychologists Alfred Binet and Théodore Simon in the early 1900s.
In 1905, the French government asked Binet and his colleague Simon to develop a test to identify children who might struggle in the new compulsory education system. They wanted to give these students individualized attention, rather than having them placed in psychiatric institutions.
Binet and Simon created a test with a wide variety of questions designed to assess different cognitive abilities like memory, attention, and problem-solving. The questions were designed to be age-specific; a child’s performance was compared to that of other children of the same age.
There was no mention of IQ though which came later. The whole concept of the “intelligence quotient” (IQ) was later introduced by the German psychologist William Stern. The IQ was calculated by dividing a person’s mental age by their chronological (actual) age and multiplying the result by 100!
So you must understand that the average IQ of a population is 100! That is the baseline. High or low is calculated in reference to 100!
The Binet-Simon test was adapted for use in the United States by psychologists like Lewis Terman, who created the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test, and David Wechsler, who developed assessments specifically for adults!
Finally the modern IQ tests are based on the principles of these early versions but have undergone significant scientific development over the last century to become the more complex and scientifically validated instruments used today!
Now do remember that before you call someone stupid or moron!
In the historical system proposed by psychologist Henry H. Goddard and used in the mid-20th century, the term “moron” had a specific IQ range of 50-74 (or sometimes 50-70 or 51-70, depending on the specific scale).
While the term “stupid” was not a formal, technical classification within this historical IQ scale, unlike “moron,” “imbecile,” and “idiot” all of which had ranges!
It was and is a general, non-clinical term of insult. The closest formal term might have been “dull,” which referred to an IQ range of 85-94, but this is less severe than the user’s intent with “stupid”.
So a ‘stupid’ person at that time would be the most intelligent MORON!
Present IQ tests of course do not use any of these terms since no one can be the judge of anyone else being stupid or moron! Just hope for the elevator buttons to be strong that is all!
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