week 15 lab

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I really enjoyed the first video about human intelligence. I am a psych major and I really vibed with the video, especially with his journey to get into psychology, mine was not at all like his, but it was also similar in many ways. We do measure intelligence in a particular way that lets some fall between the cracks and that's not good, but I also think that we realize that. IQ is a way to test people's intelligence and it often separates and put people in a negative light if they have low IQ scores. The person who invented the IQ test said that they should never be used in this manner and they ended up getting used in the exact way that he was that made him hesitant to make them public. They were supposed to be used as a way to identify kids who may be at risk of falling behind and give them special help so they can stay even with everyone. There are also tests of intelligence besides IQ that look at all sorts of skills and let people shine in different ways. Standardized tests can be a problem, but they do have high predictive validity and there are systems in place to help those with disabilities, so it is not all bad but it is not perfect. it does help that the application process has many facets besides just scores, and people bad at tests of intelligence can shine on the rest. 


I really only got one message from the second video. copyright is dumb. it really does not help anybody and only really hinders creativity.

Link to the videos: two more TED talks about the creative life

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