Attention Teachers

[serryjw]

Any study ever done determining if spelling and geography have a correlation to intellect. i have a 125 IQ..and can't do either!

[ulysses]

1. I doubt that there's been a study.

I don't think spelling or geographic knowledge have anything to do with IQ, though.

[MichiganVote]

2. There are many people with high IQ's who struggle w/spelling

The geography gap may be related to spelling or to a weak link in terms of spatial thinking.

Above average IQ's do not mean that one can do everything or everything in an equal way / manner.

[serryjw]

4. You may be right

My eye hand coordination is terrible also. Maybe I just don't see things where they really are...Have a very hard time finding a red state!;)

[MichiganVote]

6. Spatial thinking ability can be realted to eye hand coordination

Stay away from those red states. If it's any comfort I have a so called high IQ and test in the Learning Disabled area for Math.

[serryjw]

9. My father had a PhD in Math

that I inherited. I was great in algebra and sucked in geometry....See I can't remember anything

[MichiganVote]

10. Well there you go....I think we'll be just fine.

So long as you don't sign up for any Lewis and Clark missions and I continue to leave my taxes in the hands of a competent accountant.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

11. Inheriting a PhD sure beats

going to school forever to earn one. :)

I'd like to get a PhD in Mathematics some day, if I ever have the time and money.

[northzax]

3. well, given that there is no real correlation

between IQ and intellect, I guess not. IQ measures your ability to perform on a certain test, one designed to test how well you do on that certain test. That is all. it is generally a meaningless number.

[expatriot]

5. says who?

where the hell do you go to get your iq tested and why?

Your brain is like a computer, if you have an IQ of 125 but can't spell or do geography you have good processing speed but your hard drive sucks.

[serryjw]

8. RFLOL!!!!

probably true..Did I mention I was 55?

[hatredisnotavalue]

7. I took Latin in HS and two years in college

And can spell just about anything. Also am an avid reader, which I think has a lot to do with it.

Also I have a cheap world atlas in my kitchen. I pull it out everytime something happenes in a particular part of the world and show my kids where the incident is happening. (They were, I bet, the only two in their HS who know what Saddam was in Iraq and Osama in Afghanistan even though 70 percent of the rest of this country couldn't quite grasp that fact.

[Davis_X_Machina]

12. When I was in grad school...

...someone put a blank US map in every grad student's mailbox guaranteeing that the recipient had at least one prior degree, mind you -- and asked us to label as many states as we could, and give the 2-letter UPS code for eachs state.

The average number of correctly labelled states -- 40.
The average number of correct 2-letter state abbreviations -- 32.

[serryjw]

13. LOL! Thant's about what I would have gotten

on labeling states...would have done better in UPS abbreviation....

I feel much better,I finally learned how to spell AFGHANISTAN. See bombing the SH*T out of a country helped my spelling

[seabeyond]

14. i have 132 and can do both, wink n/t

[nickgutierrez]

15. Depending on the test, I'm between 130-135

My spelling is ok, but I do have a similar problem with Geography.