The “intelligence” test that I performed on my selected subcultures were persons from the United States Air Force and people who where civilians. People who did not belong to this Air Force subculture did horrible on the test. In this type of “intelligence” test, I have come to the conclusion that intelligence cannot be measured with a basic knowledge based test. The people belonging to the subgroup did an outstanding job because they had been taught the information through out their Air Force career. In the other hand, civilians are not exposed to such material in everyday life. The results of this test shows that people in the Air Force got a higher score compared to the civilians. However, this does not mean that the Air Force personnel are more intelligent. As a matter of fact, I know that everyone in the military is not all that bright and civilians in the world are not that dull. Exposure to the material and interest in the material p
Through this test, I have realized that there is no one who is more “intelligence “ than someone else, but only that he can be taught. People belonging to my subculture were not born with such knowledge nor knew everything about the Air Force before they had joined. There is no fault proof way to measure intelligence for every human being had a different personality and preference. With such a variety of different people talented in their own way, it is difficult to say who is intelligent and who is not.
Many people define intelligence as a form of problem solving. Although most of my questions had little to do with problem solving, it nevertheless rated what where able to recall. The questions that I came up with are basic knowledge questions that all Air Force personnel are required to know; therefore all of the people belonging to the subculture received and average score of ninety-five percent. On the other hand people outside of this sub
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