Battle of the Brains
Can you think of 100 different uses for a sock? How would you cope with glasses that turn everything upside down? What's your emotional intelligence? Can you create a work of art in 10 minutes? Horizon takes seven people who are some of the highest flayers in their field: a musical prodigy, a quantum physicist, an artist, a dramatist, an RAF fighter pilot, a chess grandmaster and a Wall Street trader, and puts them through a battery of tests to measure their intelligence. Who is the most intelligent?
The principle way that we measure intelligence, the IQ test, is based on research done before even Einstein was in his prime. Because these tests label us with a single number they are still a popular and convenient way to divide people into clever clogs and dunces. But most psychologists agree that they only tell half the story, at most. Where they disagree is how we measure intelligence, for the very good reason that they still don't know exactly what it is.
Horizon looks for evidence of intelligence in the brain, in our genes and in our upbringing and tests some of the latest theories using them to see which of the seven has the highest intelligence. Wall Street Trader, Nathan Hasselbauer has an IQ of 167, but is he creative? Artist Stella Vine left school at 13 how would she know the distance from London to Hong Kong? Dramatist and critic Bonnie Greer has got a great vocabulary, but what's she like at inductive logic?
who are the top three contestants
really interesting and was shocked at the end
learned alot about iq that i didnt know
i hope i am intelligent
Very fascinating video
I thought this video was very fascinating and it helped me learn a lot about IQ differences among people.
Good way to measure the difference of IQ with different people with different jobs, interesting way too
Very fascinating video, I wonder how well I would do on those tests
I found it very interesting and informative.
I agree with Gardner on the circumstantial and cultural significance of intelligence. Overall, I thought it was a very insightful video that provided a new perspective of things that I might not have considered before
Interesting topic that I've never thought about before.
I thought the different series of tests were interesting
This was really interesting to watch!!
this documentary was very interesting because if the different tests that they ran
Very interesting
I would have never thought that getting a cork out of a bottle would be a test given to someone, so cool!!
I was so interested in how intelligence can be measured.
Pretty cool and very interesting
super interesting to learn more about this topic
I aspire to be like Seth
very interesting to see how each person did in the different sections
Very interesting, I liked Gardner's comment on football player and how IQ is more dependent on our society.
I thought the tests were very unique and interesting.
I thought that it was really interesting to compare people of different professional backgrounds and see what influence that had on their intelligence.
I thought it was very interesting to learn about