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5.0 out of 5 stars A good book
It is very interesting and helpful and as a parent of adult and small children, I find it very useful about ME. So many things make so much sense as I work through issues and rebuild more positive patterns.As with all approaches to a subject as complex as human beings, you will probably come across one or two things, as I did, that are 'fru-fru' thoughts, but it does not take away from the overall helpful and positive suggestions and their efficacy.
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Read
Great tools for helping your kids (or in my case, grandkids, who spend quite a bit of time at my house) excel. Easy to read, understand AND put into practice. This book will be an oft used book in our household.
3.0 out of 5 stars You can study for IQ tests.
I had the chance to thoroughly examine the WAIS test right before they changed it a couple of years ago. The WAIS test is the most common IQ test in the US. The problem is that half the test doesn't even measure cognitive abilities. I understand that IQ tests may not be perfect, but this one has salient problems. IQ tests are supposed to determine your mental quickness and complexity, ability to draw analogies, pattern recognition, etc. Most of the WAIS test rewards you for having stereotypical/ inside-the-box thinking.Imagine you are trying to measure how well the hardware works (IQ) and you have many different PC's with a variety of programs installed on them (or no programs at all), you just find the least common denominator, like the Windows operating system, and you use that to check what the hardware can do or cannot do. You do not look for answers from Encyclopedia Britannica if some computers never had it installed on them, and you do not conclude that the ones that give you answers from Encyclopedia Britannica must have superior hardware than the rest.The older WAIS test had questions like, "who'd the 3rd president of the US?", "who's Martin Luther King?", "why is it important to study History?" and "why is it important to pay taxes?" Whether you agree that History or paying taxes are important is a matter of opinion. IQ is not about how broad your general knowledge is or whether you've gone to an American high school and have loyally absorbed the culturally dominant opinion on social issues like paying taxes.For the verbal section it had questions like, "what is "breakfast"?" If you say, "One of the meals of the day" you only get half credit because apparently high IQ people would say, "it's the first meal of the day and it often consists of.....bla-bla-bla" Then they do the same with "what is winter?" You get the idea...if you say, "it's one of the seasons of the year" you only get half credit because apparently, smart people would say, "it's the fourth season of the year and it's the coldest one, and it starts in Dec and ends in Mar." Every more or less intelligent person can figure out that if you say winter is one of the seasons or whether you elaborate on what winter means is a matter of style more than a matter of intelligence.They also seemed to punish you for being a creative thinker. The questions could have many right answers (the questions on the verbal section were NOT multiple choice); however, if you didn't pick the answer the author wanted, you either got half credit or no credit at all. If you responded, "paying taxes is important because you don't want to get in trouble with the IRS" you would get 0 points. They graded you as if you didn't know what taxes were used for instead of recognizing that you were looking at the issue from a different perspective and the question allowed for a broader interpretation.The Math part of the test had one significant issue, it just wasn't clear what exactly was being measured, working memory or Math skills. It goes like this... the administrator reads the Math questions at you and then you are supposed to do the mental calculations. There is also a section where they read a group of numbers to you and you should repeat them backwards, which shows good working memory for numbers. If you cannot visualize/memorize numbers like that, you are sure to fail the Math questions too because you simply won't remember the numbers that you should be calculating in your head. You may have poor working memory but excellent calculating skills when doing math on paper. The test wouldn't be able to tell, though.Finally, the test administrators have too much freedom during the grading of the WAIS test. Some of them give you full credit even if the answer is not on the answer key but is correct. Others stick to the answer key and do not care if it's incomplete. This is a major variable that has been eliminated in the Mensa test and most other IQ tests.
5.0 out of 5 stars Great expirience!
First time that I buy at Bolo, got what I was looking for, for an exellent price, the delivery was quick, and costumer service was formidable, sent a message with a quiestion, got the answer in no time, everithing was super duper definelly is somenthing I will do again!
4.0 out of 5 stars Food for Thought!
This is a book to use, not just read. It has wonderful/helpful information in it and it is certainly worth reading and studying again and again.
5.0 out of 5 stars This is a great book!
The IQ Answer is an excellent book for anyone who wants to understand how the brain works and how to maximize their brain usage!!
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Great info for your children
3.0 out of 5 stars Lucky Dip of ideas with an attention getting title
Nico MacGreif's review is spot on; "...there are more than a few plausible ideas here. You'll just have to sift them from the seemingly silly."Some careless errors raised doubts for me. Lawlis quotes "anima" as male and "animus" as female when they should be reversed. He also says that the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics is due to the consciousness of the observer which is not correct (see Uncertainty Principle in Wikipedia [...]).These errors don't affect Lawlis' ideas, but his casual approach may indicate that his ideas may be supported more by anecdote than provable evidence.But there's good news here for us ordinary folks. Not even the supervising psychologist for the American Mensa Society can get it right all the time, so the rest of us can certainly be allowed to make a few mistakes.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A good book
It is very interesting and helpful and as a parent of adult and small children, I find it very useful about ME. So many things make so much sense as I work through issues and rebuild more positive patterns.As with all approaches to a subject as complex as human beings, you will probably come across one or two things, as I did, that are 'fru-fru' thoughts, but it does not take away from the overall helpful and positive suggestions and their efficacy.
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Read
Great tools for helping your kids (or in my case, grandkids, who spend quite a bit of time at my house) excel. Easy to read, understand AND put into practice. This book will be an oft used book in our household.
3.0 out of 5 stars You can study for IQ tests.
I had the chance to thoroughly examine the WAIS test right before they changed it a couple of years ago. The WAIS test is the most common IQ test in the US. The problem is that half the test doesn't even measure cognitive abilities. I understand that IQ tests may not be perfect, but this one has salient problems. IQ tests are supposed to determine your mental quickness and complexity, ability to draw analogies, pattern recognition, etc. Most of the WAIS test rewards you for having stereotypical/ inside-the-box thinking.Imagine you are trying to measure how well the hardware works (IQ) and you have many different PC's with a variety of programs installed on them (or no programs at all), you just find the least common denominator, like the Windows operating system, and you use that to check what the hardware can do or cannot do. You do not look for answers from Encyclopedia Britannica if some computers never had it installed on them, and you do not conclude that the ones that give you answers from Encyclopedia Britannica must have superior hardware than the rest.The older WAIS test had questions like, "who'd the 3rd president of the US?", "who's Martin Luther King?", "why is it important to study History?" and "why is it important to pay taxes?" Whether you agree that History or paying taxes are important is a matter of opinion. IQ is not about how broad your general knowledge is or whether you've gone to an American high school and have loyally absorbed the culturally dominant opinion on social issues like paying taxes.For the verbal section it had questions like, "what is "breakfast"?" If you say, "One of the meals of the day" you only get half credit because apparently high IQ people would say, "it's the first meal of the day and it often consists of.....bla-bla-bla" Then they do the same with "what is winter?" You get the idea...if you say, "it's one of the seasons of the year" you only get half credit because apparently, smart people would say, "it's the fourth season of the year and it's the coldest one, and it starts in Dec and ends in Mar." Every more or less intelligent person can figure out that if you say winter is one of the seasons or whether you elaborate on what winter means is a matter of style more than a matter of intelligence.They also seemed to punish you for being a creative thinker. The questions could have many right answers (the questions on the verbal section were NOT multiple choice); however, if you didn't pick the answer the author wanted, you either got half credit or no credit at all. If you responded, "paying taxes is important because you don't want to get in trouble with the IRS" you would get 0 points. They graded you as if you didn't know what taxes were used for instead of recognizing that you were looking at the issue from a different perspective and the question allowed for a broader interpretation.The Math part of the test had one significant issue, it just wasn't clear what exactly was being measured, working memory or Math skills. It goes like this... the administrator reads the Math questions at you and then you are supposed to do the mental calculations. There is also a section where they read a group of numbers to you and you should repeat them backwards, which shows good working memory for numbers. If you cannot visualize/memorize numbers like that, you are sure to fail the Math questions too because you simply won't remember the numbers that you should be calculating in your head. You may have poor working memory but excellent calculating skills when doing math on paper. The test wouldn't be able to tell, though.Finally, the test administrators have too much freedom during the grading of the WAIS test. Some of them give you full credit even if the answer is not on the answer key but is correct. Others stick to the answer key and do not care if it's incomplete. This is a major variable that has been eliminated in the Mensa test and most other IQ tests.
5.0 out of 5 stars Great expirience!
First time that I buy at Bolo, got what I was looking for, for an exellent price, the delivery was quick, and costumer service was formidable, sent a message with a quiestion, got the answer in no time, everithing was super duper definelly is somenthing I will do again!
4.0 out of 5 stars Food for Thought!
This is a book to use, not just read. It has wonderful/helpful information in it and it is certainly worth reading and studying again and again.
5.0 out of 5 stars This is a great book!
The IQ Answer is an excellent book for anyone who wants to understand how the brain works and how to maximize their brain usage!!
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Great info for your children
3.0 out of 5 stars Lucky Dip of ideas with an attention getting title
Nico MacGreif's review is spot on; "...there are more than a few plausible ideas here. You'll just have to sift them from the seemingly silly."Some careless errors raised doubts for me. Lawlis quotes "anima" as male and "animus" as female when they should be reversed. He also says that the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics is due to the consciousness of the observer which is not correct (see Uncertainty Principle in Wikipedia [...]).These errors don't affect Lawlis' ideas, but his casual approach may indicate that his ideas may be supported more by anecdote than provable evidence.But there's good news here for us ordinary folks. Not even the supervising psychologist for the American Mensa Society can get it right all the time, so the rest of us can certainly be allowed to make a few mistakes.
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