When we give someone an IQ test we give them a made up set of problems to solve. We hope that if someone can solve these made up problems they will be better at solving problems that real life throws at them.
When we look at the research we find that if we know someone's score on an IQ test(how well they solve made up problems) we find they tend to do a little better(on average) at life then people who aren't as good at solving made-up problems. This is not meant to be the full measure of a man, or supposed to tell us the answer to what intelligence is.(This is probably a question a bunch of tenured philosophers could argue about until the end of civilization :) ).
When we look at the research we find that if we know someone's score on an IQ test(how well they solve made up problems) we find they tend to do a little better(on average) at life then people who aren't as good at solving made-up problems. This is not meant to be the full measure of a man, or supposed to tell us the answer to what intelligence is.(This is probably a question a bunch of tenured philosophers could argue about until the end of civilization :) ).