Nowadays, mothers and fathers pay much more attention to their children than their fathers did, and some of them have contracted “allergies”: if their children are slightly different, they worry that there is something wrong with their intelligence, or they are secretly happy that their children are more intelligent than others, and they have to go to testing institutions to find out. This is a good or bad thing for your child. Nowadays, there are many institutions that measure the IQ of children in China, but not many of them are really authoritative, and their scientificity and seriousness are greatly reduced. This is because measuring IQ is not as simple and mechanical as checking eyesight or measuring height and weight. And a survey has proved that in a large number of outpatient clinics, children with abnormal intelligence and mental retardation only account for a small percentage of children. Therefore, although it is understandable that parents want their sons to become dragons and daughters to become phoenixes, due to the lack of knowledge in this area, some parents fall into misconceptions because they cannot treat the IQ test results objectively, thus bringing adverse effects to their children’s growth. Today, let’s take a look at the four major misconceptions that exist in IQ testing! Myth one, high IQ is “genius”, low IQ is “mediocre” Some parents hold the identification of their children is “genius” or “mediocre “This is obviously absurd. The IQ test is only a scientific or therapeutic assessment tool in child counseling, and the IQ index alone does not indicate whether a child is a “genius” or a “mediocrity”. Parents and teachers should understand that, in addition to natural talent, a child’s development depends more on his or her education. You can’t think that a child with a high IQ index should focus on training; a child with a low IQ index should be left to “fend for themselves”. Myth 2, IQ is equal to intelligence The current IQ test usually consists of 3 parts: language, numbers and images, which is the internationally accepted method. But in fact, the whole connotation of human intelligence is much more than these items, usually, people have music, language, space, mathematics, sports, interpersonal relationships, psychological regulation 7 kinds of intelligence, and the current IQ test is not possible to measure all of them. In addition, the IQ index is a statistically derived number for a certain population, and although it has a certain relationship with intelligence, it is not equal to intelligence level. Myth 3, every child needs to be tested for IQ The information shows that in China, children with abnormal intelligence and mental retardation account for only a very small percentage of the population, and more than 90% of children are in the normal range of intelligence. Therefore, experts generally believe that the IQ test is only applicable to those children suspected of being abnormal, mentally retarded or psychologically challenged, the general children do not need to measure IQ, readily let the child do IQ test will bring adverse effects. Myth four, a measure of lifelong In the psychological community there is a famous experiment, a psychologist in the name of doing IQ tests, selected a number of students, without revealing the real situation in advance, the students were arbitrarily divided into two groups, and then arbitrarily pointed out that a group is a good intelligence, the other group is not good. Six months later, it was found that the intelligence of the group of students called good intelligence really good, and the other group really became bad. This shows that people’s intelligence is changing, and an IQ test can only explain the state of his intelligence at the moment, but not as a guide to predict future intelligence. The results of this experiment cautioned parents not to “make up one’s mind” about their children’s intelligence.