blog 1 chapter 9

i had chapter 9 for my first blog and it talked all about intelligence and IQ. this chapter was super fun to read because at the beginning of my college experience i had alot of trouble with this subject. there is a section in this chapter that talks about the ACTs and SATs. i remember preparing for them and taking them in hopes that i would do well even thou normally on tests im about "average". i ended up not doing to hot both times i took the tests. i thought schools would think i was stupid even thou i have a really good GPA in high school. i though it wasn't fair that a school would just drop my application because i did bad. so reading the section about how colleges around the united states are not taking these tests real serious now really helped bring closer to this experience. it talked about how college now a days can't use these tests as good indicators because on average they only predict the first year of grades, how the test tends to fair on the wide scope of things.
another thing it talks about it how intelligence should really be broken up into multiple sections such as: linguistic, logico-mathematical, spatial, musical etc. (they used taylor swift as an example for musical which i thought was a bit funny.) this entire chapter gives us many examples of how and why these tests are just like any other scientific theory. they are constantly changing and we all need to keep an open mind.
one last fun fact that this chapter brought about was how environment can change some ones IQ such as summer vacation. thats probably why our books are constantly reviewing things we learned the semester before.