00:01
All right, so we are asked here to pick one of these two statements.
00:04
One is that iq testing should be considered only when a child has demonstrated some kind of difficulty with learning or appears to be exceptionally bright.
00:11
And the other statement being that using a routine iq testing as a means of screening children for possible learning problems and for identifying gifted children is a good idea not to be done in schools.
00:21
And so while this is a very personal question, we can sort of lay out the pros and cons of each of them.
00:30
So with the pros for the first situation, we sort of have more, let's call this privacy in respect to, with respect to children's iq scores.
00:47
And while, you know, one could make the argument that in the other case, we could sort of keep things secret, it's pretty hard to keep things secret when you're sort of dividing people into, we would assume, into different classes and in different learning environments based on these scores.
01:00
And so you would very obviously sort of have this understanding that the brighter students, as demonstrated by a higher iq score, should go into a different class than others.
01:13
And there's sort of a stratification thing that occurs that we can avoid by only testing sort of the extremes here.
01:20
That would be the biggest pro.
01:22
Sort of the con, i suppose, is we need to wait for a sign, essentially...