دانلود کتاب The Complete IQ Test Book - How to Understand and Measure Each Aspect of Your Intelligence

Our IQ (intelligence quotient) is essentially a measure of our own intelligence against that of the rest of society, but it can also be a measure of our self-esteem. Many people have been pleasantly surprised to discover, after doing an IQ test, that they were more intelligent than they had thought. With this updated measure of their abilities they can gain a new confidence in life. If you discover that your IQ puts you in the top — say, 20 per cent, when you had thought you were merely average, you are likely to reassess your life and to adjust your personal goals. The knowledge that you are more intelligent than 80 per cent of those around you can give you the incentive to go for promotion, or to quit your job and start on your own. Perhaps you will go for that degree that until now you never thought you were capable of? Perhaps you will just hold your head higher and value your own judgement more. Whatever the case, you are unlikely to remain the same.

Fortunately it is unlikely that any reader of this book will discover their intelligence to be below average. Many people who will buy this book already suspect that they are not using their full potential. Only those of above average intelligence tend to show any curiosity as to their intellectual abilities. Perhaps you have picked up clues to your intelligence — do you have an understanding of abstract concepts that baffle others? Have you always felt different, and had trouble fitting in? Are you more sensitive, or more aware than your peers? Perhaps you are not satisfied to believe what others tell you?

Paradoxically, the more intelligent you are, the greater will be the tendency to underestimate your ability. The greatest personal value of IQ tests therefore, is to correct this problem and give us a real idea of our own ability. Only when we know ourselves can we go on to fulfil our true potential.

The tests in this book are designed to measure the five main aspects of intelligence — the ability to recognise and decode visual patterns — visual-spatial cognitive ability; the ability to recognise numerical patterns and solve problems, numerical ability; the ability to use our native language, verbal-linguistic ability; the ability to come to true conclusions about stated facts, logical deduction; and the ability to put all these other skills to practical use, creative ability. Each test is complete in itself, and may be used to determine a score for a specific subject, but all the tests need to be taken into account to determine your overall IQ. The procedure for this is on page 109, together with a graph on page 110 that converts your test results into an IQ score.

If the procedures for completing the tests in this book are followed carefully, they will give a fair estimate of your IQ, within the limits imposed by non-standard test conditions, and the space restrictions of this book. However, no IQ test can claim to be definitive, and you are likely to find that each test you take evaluates your IQ in a slightly different way, producing a different overall score.