by Art F. Moran

Created on: June 01, 2009   Last Updated: June 04, 2009

In the establishment of tests designed to weigh the intelligence of any individual's capacity for knowledge, it is arguable that the overall calculation is formulated by a populous opinion, moreover that of factual information.

Due to the amount of resources made available for the expansion of one's individual knowledge, there are simply too many subjects to be explored, to ever truly certify a specific acclamation of knowledge or to accompany any realistic measure of truth in totality.

Hypothetically, we can easily conduct innumerable experiments whereby we can weigh one subject against another, and seldom will these results produce exacting results, or share relevance greater than the other.

In the case of mathematics and sciences, certain establishments can be made to prove irrefutable truth's containing only one true conclusion, and even still, such formulas often lead only to the next arrangement of unsolved equations.

Thus, in determining a score relevant to one's cognate intelligence, it is in fact a matter of probability, more than that of scientific or mathematical equation with any resolute or absolute definition.

Perhaps a greater example can be allocated given Napoleon Hill's; "Think and Grow Rich" book published in the early 1900's where he takes philosophical thinking, and weighs it against the sciences of understanding, knowledge, and wisdom, and the actions required to employ one's knowledge.

In chapter 5, Hill speculates that many people undermine the true value of knowledge. Using a wide variety of examples, he stresses that in the case of Henry Ford, the general public challenged his knowledge due to his lack of "schooling."

However, if one is to mimic, or memorize a vast abundance of knowledge, and does not conceive the greater principle for the acquisition to be expanded upon afterward, then the knowledge is no greater than that of teaching an African Grey parrot to recite certain words or phrases. Clearly, it might appear the parrot has a formal gene of sort, or the capacity to do so, but it does not solidify any truth to the parrot's intelligence.

As was in question with Henry Ford, after being publically ridiculed, and even having been rumored as being called an "ignorant idealist, or ignorantly rich," it was implied he was less than intelligent enough to be seen by many as worthy to possess the great wealth he had built and had acquired.

Certifiably, an IQ test can be seen as a great prop, or study tool to increase one's chief

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