What does "grade level" really mean, and does it still make sense in today's classrooms?Dr. Russell T. Warne sits down with Dr. Karen Rambo-Hernandez from Texas A&M University to discuss new research showing that millions of students perform above or below their assigned grade. They explore how COVID-19 changed achievement in math and reading, why classrooms can span five to seven grade levels of ability, and what teachers can do when the system itself is not designed for such diversity.Should schools keep grouping students by age, or shift toward readiness and ability instead?Read Dr. Rambo-Hernandez’s paper: Millions of Students Are Still Above Grade Level : https://doi.org/10.1177/01623532241277840Watch the full video version on YouTube and subscribe: https://youtu.be/SenIUvVpLTQLearn more and take a free sample of the RIOT IQ Test → www.riotiq.comFind all our links here: https://linktr.ee/riottest
What does it really mean for an IQ test to be “biased”? In this episode of The Human Intelligence Podcast, Dr. Craig Frisby, author of Essentials of Assessing Bias in Intelligence Testing, explains why bias is not about score gaps but about measurement error.We explore how psychologists detect and remove biased items, why landmark cases like Larry P. and PASE v. Hannon changed the conversation, and why breaking standardization or using “dynamic” assessments and race-norming models like SOMPA failed to improve fairness.Read Craig Frisby’s book: Essentials of Evaluating Bias in Intelligence Testing → https://amzn.to/4pUDh8TWatch the full video version on YouTube and subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@RiotIQTestFind all our links here: https://linktr.ee/riottest
What does it really mean to be intelligent, and can we say the same for AI? In this episode of The Human Intelligence Podcast, Dr. Russell T. Warne speaks with Dr. Gilles Gignac from the University of Western Australia about two of his influential papers on defining and measuring intelligence.Together they explore why intelligence is about solving novel problems at our maximum capacity, how “achievement” differs from true intelligence, and whether artificial systems like large language models can ever be meaningfully compared to humans. They also discuss how psychometric methods can improve AI benchmarks and what both psychologists and computer scientists can learn from each other.If you are curious about human intelligence, artificial intelligence, and the future of measuring both, this episode will give you a fresh perspective.Referenced articles:Defining Intelligence: Bridging the Gap Between Human and Artificial Perspectives → https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2024.101832Psychometrically Derived 60 Question Benchmarks, Substantial Efficiencies, and the Possibility of Human AI Comparisons → https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2025.101922
Are our tests of intelligence really measuring universal abilities, or are they shaped by schooling and culture? In this episode, we explore how environment influences executive function and why that matters for the science of intelligence.In the first episode of the RIOT IQ Podcast, host Dr. Russell Warne, Chief Scientist at Riot IQ, talks with Ivan Kroupin, a cross-cultural cognitive scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Ivan is the lead author of The Cultural Construction of Executive Function, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.Ivan shares stories from his fieldwork in Namibia, Angola, and Bolivia, where children often show impressive real-world skills that standard tests fail to capture. Together, they discuss what this means for psychology, anthropology, and intelligence research, and why it is so important to understand the cultural side of human cognition.If you are curious about how people think, learn, and adapt in different environments, this episode will give you a fresh way to look at intelligence.Read the open-access article here: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2407955122