Topic: Intelligence tests bring more harm than good
these give us a baseline for the abilities of people and let us know how best to help them
these tests are valuable to educators
these tests can help sort out children in primary school in order to cater to their specific learning needs better.
these tests can provide a great advantage on a college application or job application.
these tests need to be stopped until they are able to properly assess intelligence in a variety of forms, currently they are discriminatory
they allow students to be sorted and taught at their own level.
they are a good way of assessing whether a person has the necessary intelligence and problem solving skills.
they are a great tool for teachers to gauge a child's progress.
they are a great tool for teachers to see where their students stand.
they are gender and race biased.  they often do not measure true intelligence.
they are not always correct and should not be used
they can be a useful tool, helping to target education and opportunities to those who would most benefit from them, wherever they fall on the scale,  making scarce resources go further.
they can be used to help put children in the correct classes with people in their intellectual group.
they can help diagnose and treat learning disabilities and difficulties.
they can help in finding the best candidates for certain jobs
they can lead to a feeling of insecurity
they do because some of the questions are irrelevant.
they have been shown to be ineffective in gauging ones intelligence.
they help to identify gifted children and help parents to develop their children talents
they make people feel inadequate if they mess up.
this is beneficial only to the people who go to good schools and aern't living in poverty.   these tests are unfair to kids in low income poverty areas.   we should not have them.
this is just testing, it doesn't prove anything
this isolates those who already do not feel as smart as their peers
this type of test helps to exploit the natural abilities of children
Using IQ tests, educators can identify children who need more stimulation and are capable of learning faster, and offer them a richer educational experience
we need a benchmark to assess which candidates would be suitable in particular jobs and positions.
we need to have some measures in place to be able to help students.
we want to know who's clever, we need these tests
When anyone, especially a child, is labeled with a number which is considered an accurate measure of his innate potential may suffer from the low expectations, lack of stimulation and damaged self-esteem
without intelligence tests to use as a benchmark, it would be impossible to assess someones capability and provide them with appropriate level tasks.
without intelligence tests, everyone would be stuck at the same level with some people consistently completing work and others consistently struggling.
yes people are frightened by such useless questions