Conversation with Bob Williams on Public and Professional Definitions of Intelligence, General Intelligence, National Intelligence, Age 16, and Validity and Reliability of Alternative Tests: Retired Nuclear Physicist (2).

Bob Williams is a Member of the Triple Nine Society, Mensa International, and the International Society for Philosophical Enquiry. He discusses: intelligence in the public consciousness; consciousness within those who spend more time thinking about it, in professional circles; the scientific constructs; the majority opinion definition of general intelligence; other peripheral, though respected, definitions of general intelligence; most noteworthy and prominent names in psychometrics history; arguments for national intelligences; the form of data gathering on the national intelligences; age 16 as a capstone; tests measure g; scores extrapolated beyond their highest range; and the range of validity and reliability of these alternative tests. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]