Studies have show little correlation between spending and student graduation rates and performance.
Data suggests it is not how much but how that money is spent.
Not sure anyone said lack of spending was the problem. Putting the money in the right places is the key. As I stated - paying STEM teachers more instead of the same pay no matter what you teach is money well spent.
Look at Mississippi - It’s called the Mississippi Miracle. Starting in 2013 to now they had a dramatic turnaround in their public education system. But it wasn’t free. And it wasn’t throwing money at it.
To get back to the title of this thread…
I know my IQ is higher than both of my parents. We were tested. I don’t know about the grandparents. I acheived the highest level of eductation of any of my ancestors or family members.
Am I smarter? Doubtful. My parents and grandparents were pretty clever people that were successful in their chosen fields. We each had significant knowledge of our respective fields.
I think there IS a lack of common sense, however.
Level of education is certainly no indicator of common sense! I have worked with many PhDs that could not pour water out of a boot without instructions on the heel but they could do partial differential equations in their head. I worked with a VP of sales at a former company who never went beyond high school and he was a brilliant salesman and strategist. Two of the best in their respective lanes.
You have to have a certain level of education to even take an IQ test.
Common Sense is an often misused or understood term. Many uneducated people use the term to show how some people don’t understand the most basic things in life. I worked with a brilliant engineer who struggled with how to buy a soda with a credit card at a vending machine. For most of us it was obvious so we look at him like he lacks common sense. HOWEVER - He understood physics and math far better than most of us understood how to turn on a TV and change channels. He’s explaining a complex physics term that many of us were struggling with - but to him it was so obvious (aka - COMMON SENSE). People have different priorities in life. People who are educated do have Common Sense. Just not the same as people who aren’t educated. There are people who still think the world is flat because they can’t understand or refuse to learn something new. They see a world that is flat to them because the world is so large you can’t see the curve. To them, the world being flat is Common Sense albeit WRONG.
An IQ score is one number associated with intelligence. It presumably measures academic ability. However, there are other dimensions to intelligence that are important. As an analogy, suppose I told you that a section of carpet is 72 square feet. This number doesn’t tell you the dimensions of the section of carpet. The carpet section could be 6 x 12 or 8 by 9. The.dimensions are important. The 72 square foot number is important for computing the cost of the section of carpet, but the dimensions are needed for the application.
My first IQ test put me in the dull normal category. This really bothered me, so some years later, I was retested. I was elated by the results which showed that I am dull but not normal. This result proved that I was a perfect fit for a college professor.
I had several dull professors, but then there was Big Al. He had several funny lines in each lecture. I never thought of metallurgy as a comedy genre until I ran across Big Al.
I think an IQ score is like a horsepower rating for a car. I once owned a 1954 Buick Special. tt had a 3 speed manual transmission and a 264 cubic inch nailhead V8 rated at 143 horsepower. Yet, it would outrun a 1954 Buick Super with the bigger 322 cubic inch engine with a much higher horsepower rsting. The Buick Super had a heavier body, the Dynaflow automatic transmission that had a lot of slippage and had power steering which consumed some power. Now horsepower is measured on a dynamometer with nothing attached to the engine. In a similar manner, IQ score is neasured by a test administered under carefully monitored conditions. My Buick Special had more of its engine power applied to the road than the Buick Super with its Dynaflow transmission and power steering that consumed power.
I think about IQ like engine horsepower, it’s more important as to how a person applies his or her intelligence to learning than an IQ score.
It’s rare for someone who scores high on an IQ score to be unintelligent. But there are people who don’t score well on IQ scores that are highly intelligent. IQ score is both nature and nurtured. You can be born with a certain intelligence from your parents and by nurturing it you can IMPROVE that score, or conversely if you don’t nurture it - your IQ score can drop.
I can identify a camel!
But do you know more about Camel’s than anyone else ?
What you described is BHP (brake HP), measured with an engine dyno to determine an engine’s horsepower at the crank… It’s also commonly used after a performance engine build to dial everything in and perform a controlled break-in…
But aside from manufacturer specifications for BHP, WHP (wheel HP) often referred to as RWHP (rear-wheel HP) is more commonly used to get a real-world measurement of the power actually reaching the wheels or hubs…
RWHP/WHP reflects the power lost through the drivetrain, the mechanical energy required to turn the transmission gears, driveshaft (or CV axles), differential, wheel bearings, and the wheels and tires themselves… In other words, it gives you a better idea of how much of the engine’s power is actually making it to the road…
Yes, the doctors told me nobody before could identify a camel like I could. My uncle was a professor of camelology at MIT, that’s why I excelled at identifying camels.
I was curious why MIT would have a professor of camelology on staff and Google gave me this… Granted you are talking about then and the Google reply is AI and it is referencing now… and this is what Google replied…
“While the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) does not have a formal department or official professorship dedicated to “camelology” (the study of camels), it is highly likely you are thinking of one of the institute’s legendary hacks, pranks, or fictional world-building elements.”
So, I guess I have to ask, what is your level of expertise: Boy, Girl, one hump or Two… 
Your choice, one hump or two, but my last post was made on hump day.
It was the same test CoCo the signing Gorilla passed.
And you call me too dense to see a joke, “Boy, Girl, One Hump or Two…” And you missed the “Rolling on the Floor Emoji…”
One Hump, it was the first Hump Day of the month…
Marty Feldman - “What Hump?”
I’m late to the party but as Triedeq noted an IQ score is more about potential than actual intelligence.
Further the SAT, ACT and MCAT scores are less focused on intelligence than on the preparation to actually graduate from a college program. i.e. A HS applicant who’s final Math was Algebra1 or final Language was Grammar will probably have to work harder to graduate in Engineering or Composition. This completely ignores the very important Motivation factor so why are they used anyway?
The simple and obvious reason is because if you are the Admissions Officer at a huge Public University, faced with a hundred applications for each available opening, a simple numerical and defensible cutoff is the easy way to go. Bottom line, these tests have nothing to do with intelligence and little to do with future success or competence, but when you have to “thin out the herd” …
And BTW, at the Highly Selective / Elite schools, where you have 10 extremely well qualified applicants for every opening all of whom could all easily graduate, they typically ignore the tests and GPA relying instead on the “Whole Student” approach. Instead of reliance on a silly numerical test they do an individual evaluation starting with the applicant’s Essay, then an Interview and followed by a group in house discussion of the Applicant’s relative merit.
While currently derided as DEI it actually provides the Public School kid from Hog Wallow West Virginia, Iceberg Alaska, or Ghetto High to compete on their own merits against the Manhattan Money applicants. It ain’t what you come with but what you do with what you got that makes the difference.