Does IQ Change Over Time? - Stephen Murdoch

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/04/16/Stephen_Murdoch_Discusses_IQ

Author Stephen Murdoch discusses the impacts of IQ testing on sentencing for convicted murder Daryl Atkins, and describes how IQ test results can change for individuals over time.

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Stephen Murdoch, author of IQ: A Smart History of a Failed Idea, discusses the invention and history of the IQ test and its applications from the past to the present.

Stephen Murdoch has been working as a journalist and writer since 1999. He has written on a wide range of subjects—from legal policy and psychology, to travel and topical commentary. In 2006, Murdoch was a weekly columnist for the Santa Barbara News-Press. He has also contributed to Newsweek, Marketplace (a radio show carried by many NPR stations), The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Lawyer, The Boston Globe and other publications.

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[dmansme]

If hes retarded and doest know any better dont execute him then, instead take him to prison and tell him its the Holiday inn resort.

[aveng006]

Or maybe the criminal knew that below 70 he wouldn't be executed and so did poorly on purpose, but not too poorly cause otherwise it would be noticed

[superhamzah85]

@zezimafan99

I suggest you learn the concept of a paradoxical last laugh in humour.

Like an amputee who lost a leg and is suing an organization for compensation, then in court being told by the defense lawyer "he has no case, it was his own carelessness, frankly he doesn't have a leg to stand on!"

Then he says "Actually I do, so there!"

Is that simple enough? Or do you need more examples of a paradoxical last laugh...

[superhamzah85]

@zezimafan99

Based on that comment, you're just below an extended response to an obvious joke.

[superhamzah85]

I would fail...I'd score the highest I could, and show them I'm 145, smarter than the Judge probably, I'll get executed, by I can call almost everyone in the room a dumbass, and that I've got paperwork to prove it. I'll get executed, but THEY will be pwned. ^_^

[roge69charger]

Maybe, The Murderer was very Intelligent to score very low on an IQ Test.

Like "Claudius" The Dimwit. Who became the Emperor of Rome.

[AkainuAokiji]

@Jihunn because the madness is similar with the high intelligence or eith the very low intelligence 

[skatebboard]

Or he could have tired to fail the test???

[Hellsconsort]

Who wrote Hamlet? That's stupid. Most people would know the answer worldwide but it's still culturally biased and knowledge based. Nothing to do with reasoning or intelligence, pure knowledge.

[Alwin2007]

@TooMuchGass

I forgot about those! Thanks for reminding me.

[TooMuchGass]

@Alwin2007 Yeah , thanks to them , we got computers that crashes, printers that mixes up pages, tons of wireless encryption problems, and burned out people trying to remember 20 passwords.