Intelligence

I'm going to talk about expert cognition. This is kind of what I started to talk about in my discussion post yesterday. I talked about how employers shouldn't be able to test the IQ of their applicants because of expert cognition. People can have a low IQ score, but be very handy in a specific area. Employers should base their hiring over their communication and people skills, and the skills necessary for their job. If a person is applying to be a translator with a company and are very skilled in language abilities and language comprehension, they shouldn't need to see their IQ tests or test math skills. I know personally my uncle knows everything to know about cars. He knows different types, parts, how to make them and put them together and anything else you could think of. However, if I were to ask him an english question or to help me write a paper, he would be unable to help me whatsoever. Another example of this that was partially talked about in the text was our parents and penmanship. My step mom can write grammatically correct and in perfect cursive because of how she grew up and what schooling she took place in. I couldn't write a legible paper in cursive for the life of me because it wasn't taught after second grade.