What is the point of pattern-recognition questions IQ or Visual Spatial IQ test?

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But IQ tests don’t predict who will do well at drawings, illustrations, sketch drawings, paintings, art work and architecture drawings, or carpentry.

IQ tests, at this current time (but have not always) attempt to test for the ability to make generalizations from incomplete data and to deduce new information from abstract rules. They do this by measuring aspects of visual-spatial processing and auditory processing, as well as short-term memory and processing speed.

We might further predict that people who are good at this might be good at the occupations and hobbies listed, but that’s an extrapolation, not what an IQ test tests for.

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If I understand Visual Spatial IQ test deal with shapes and being able to flip, move and manipulate shapes in your head. This may come into play more some one looking at 2D image and being able to visualize how looks at different angles or in 3D.

Where some one really good at Visual Spatial may play more into architecture, builders or some one putting some thing together.

Where some one really good at Visual Spatial may NOT help with drawings, illustrations, sketch drawings if all you doing is copying from some thing!!:eek::eek: And it is not coming from your memory and visualize how it looks at different angles say the person, face, car or building or what ever you trying to draw.

If you doing drawings, illustrations, sketch drawings and not copying some thing being able to Visual how it may look say the face, car or house at different angles may help better.

I’m not sure what IQ test deals with say detail or patterns?

Some jobs and what you doing detail may be important and other jobs and what you doing patterns may be important.

Other jobs and what you doing shapes and being able to flip, move and manipulate shapes in your head may be important.

I think way the IQ test are done there is lot it does not cover like creativity and abstract thinking.

I would think when it comes to drawings and paintings it is what your goal is or what you trying to do. Are you copying from memory or copying from some thing. And what is your drawings and paintings about or showing? People, nature, places, reality base, fiction or other worlds?

You need to also be really good at creativity and abstract thinking if you are doing fiction and other worlds.

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You keep referring to artists “copying” what they see. That’s not what artists do. Why do you think artists didn’t become extinct when photography was invented?

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Just chiming in as an artist. I try very hard not to draw what I see. That’s what we in the business call “borrr-ing” (and what photography is for). I think this is part of the confusion in this thread… some are viewing an artist as someone who is copying down exactly what’s in front of them.

Now, you might find that in artists who try to meticulously capture a landscape or a photo-realistic portrait, but almost everyone hung in a museum is bringing a more unique vision to their craft. And some of them would have made terrible police sketch artists.

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Oh, I was going to mention that I’m very ADHD.

(ButthenIheardanoiseoutsidesoitossedthelaptoponthecouchandracedtothewindow.
AfterIstoppedtomakeapeanutbuttersnadwichdoyoulikethembettertoasted?
That’sthemaillardreactionatwork,turninghteproteinsintosugarsthenIlooked
outsideandsurenuffitwasaSQUIRREL!)

As an art teacher, I have a high percentage of ADD/ADHD students, some of low-IQ, and an increasing number of autistic kids. None of whom are the least slowed down by their non-standard brains.

I’m very interested in how the brain works. So I’d love to read the article that you got that from.