Know I couldn't qualify anymore. Tried some of the on-line equivalents, and wasn't too pleased. Last time I took the WAIS was in 1989 when I wasn't sure I was going to make retirement, and wanted to change professions, since my previous job was no longer there, and I wasn't too happy in the field.
At the time, there was a huge push towards comprehensive testing, not just of Iq, but temperament, general knowledge, aptitude, and historical success correlations. As I was recovering from cancer, with time on my hands, I took what was then a $200 battery of tests. Recently found the folder of results, and think that the test s might have been predictive for the happiness factor. Was happy then to find that the WAIs 145 was close to the SB tests some 30 years before @ 137 and 139, and that the interest aptitude results really proved that my original field was indeed a bad choice, and as I suspected, should have pointed in the opposite direction.
Water over the dam, but a learning experience where I would counsel younger people to be much more careful in deciding a future field of endeavor. The second part that I'm not so sure of, is whether innate intelligence is long term (as with successful people who seem to go on forever), or if a loss in test results comes from degenerative disease or just plain age. I attribute my failure to dementia onset.
Apparently the jury is still out on the predictive validity of intelligence/aptitude testing. For anyone who has children or grandchildren, my thinking is that a great deal of time and effort should be spent in discovering a suitable field of effort and educational direction. The old adage of "let him find himself" isn't going to work in today's competitive marketplace.
Here's the article... for the most part negative, but with more recent encouraging results.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4557354/
Son and daughter-in-law have spent endless hours in preparation for two grandsons and one granddaughter... first of all getting them in to the right schools, and then through testing and personal counseling...to direct the course of study. Will know more in two years when grandson #1 gets his doctorate. The others are in excellent schools, doing well, and very optimistic. Youngest has a a "Stamp" scholarship.
Yes... I know I went on too long, and maybe too narrow minded, but believe it's a matter that receives too little attention. As we head towards Ai, it will be more difficult to fit round pegs into square holes. Not just a matter of personal success, but for the good of the nation and the world. What won't be changed by genetics or pharmaceuticals, can be accomplished by nurture.
