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 play a huge role in calculating intelligence. For example, everyone is exposed to the fact that there are officer grades and enlisted grades in the military. However, most civilians are not aware of the fact that a thirty-year enlistee is lower in rank than a new second lieutenant. (Question: 8) the people in my selected subculture new the answer right away because they have an interest in that certain field. The example the African Indian Chief being the smartest man in his tribe, but the fact that he would score very poorly on an IQ exam proves to be right in my experiment. However, if the situation was reversed, where the president of the Unites States was given an IQ test based on tribal African Indians, he would assumably fail as bad as the chief would fail the modern would IQ test. I believe that this is the same principle that took precedent in my IQ test. If a military personnel was questioned about something outside of their interest, they would most likely be unable to do as good as they had done in the questionnaire that was given to them previously.
