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MD: Challenges of figuring out IQ levels among people in different regions, different types of intelligence seen in urban and rural areas.

If you live in Suffolk or anywhere in the surrounding urban area, you probably feel like there is a significant difference between you and your circles versus people in the countryside. This can include many types of factors, and IQ is certainly one of them.

Now, it can be argued that there are different types of intelligence, and that they manifest themselves in different ways (we urbanites know what it’s like to try to milk a cow…). And there are legitimate reasons for this. Let’s take a closer look at how this subject can be approached from a scientific point of view, and how we might extract common elements to accurately compare people from different regions.

What is IQ?

Intelligence quotients are made up of diverse components. While there might not be specific genes that govern cow milking ability and urban savviness per se, it is the case that our cognitive functioning is more complex than people used to realize.

This is why early IQ tests were so difficult to get right. The first official IQ test that is widely acknowledged among the general public was the Binet-Simon Intelligence Test. It focused mostly on people’s verbal abilities, asking about such things as the difference between “boredom” and “weariness.” While the ability to discern things like this is, indeed, one function of IQ, we have since learned that there is much more to a given intelligence quotient than this.

Subsequent tests have improved upon these early efforts, but they still don’t quite hit the mark. We’ve all seen how much criticism standardized tests like the SAT get for unrightfully favoring certain types of socioeconomic groups over others. So people continue to wonder, is there a truly efficient way to gauge IQ levels without taking culture, language, and related factors into consideration?

What are the stereotypes in urban and rural areas?

If you live in Suffolk, you probably have certain stereotypes about IQ levels in areas like yours versus those of people “out in the sticks.” When you live in the city, of course, your mind has to work faster because you are constantly confronted with new stimuli. You have to make frequent decisions about where to go, what to order, how to respond to people, etc. And globally, people who live in urban areas feel similarly (and even more so in really big cities like New York or London).

This doesn’t mean that people who live in the countryside are dumb. Folks who live out in Tappahannock have their own issues to contend with. Learning to work the soil is not as easy as it seems. You need to have an acute understanding of different crop needs and the conditions in which things grow best. If you get this even slightly wrong, you could risk losing an entire season’s worth of crops. And the same goes for taking care of livestock; many urbanites would be hard pressed to know how to handle a flock of chickens.

What is the answer for determining IQ?

Given all of this, you are probably wondering what the answer is in terms of the ability to gauge IQs accurately. Well, there is a groundbreaking new way of IQ testing online that offers a remarkably accurate way to test people. It is called Cerebrum IQ, and it works by providing test takers with a series of multiple choice pictorial questions of increasing levels of difficulty.

The program breaks down cognitive functions into five different areas: memory, reaction, concentration, logic, and speed. When a person completes the test, the program offers useful and interesting exercises that help build up precisely those areas that he or she was lacking in. People all over the world report doing these exercises on a regular basis and building on them.

The other great thing about Cerebrum IQ is that you can take the test as many times as you want, and you can watch your score go up as you build upon weaker areas. If you feel you need a bit more help in certain areas than others, work on them for a while. If you see your strengths shifting, you can shift your focus accordingly. The program works for people of all ages in every part of the world.

Divides will remain

Different people will always continue to tell jokes about their neighbors, foreigners, and those who live in different regions; it is simply human nature. But the fact is that there are common threads that run between us all. And with the help of Cerebrum IQ, you can target these elements and build upon them to improve your fundamental cognitive abilities.