Do you think IQ tests truly refelct intelligence?

no. numbers dont define your intelligence.

NO - if you practice you can become good at IQ tests because they all seem to pose similar types and styles of questions. The more you do them the better you become and this certainly does indicate that you are smarter or more intelligent. You are just better at doing IQ tests. If you don't believe me just try it you self. According to the last one I completed I was a genius. I'm no idiot but I'm certainly not a genius. I just like IQ tests as I enjoy crosswords and Sudoku.

Uhhh no I don't, because it is possible to learn how to do the questions quickly and easily on those tests. If you are out of practice then you will do worse than somebody who has been trained the fastest ways to work things out. I know this because I sat the police exams and before that I attended a prep course and there were some pretty thick people in that class but they learned how to answer the questions and they all passed. Besides that people can be intelligent in other ways such as artistically.

A well-designed examination intended to measure a person's compentencies in logical organization of things, current events, abstract reasoning, etc. is a reliable indicator of individual intelligence. There is probably very few exemptions or arguments to the contrary. The common flaw of IQ test is when the same set of examination is administered to the same group of people in short interval that the examinees tend to memorize the answers. Another is when a well-designed battery is administered among a wrong (by reason of education, age, nature of work, etc.) set of individuals. In the final analysis, the design of an IQ test and its administration are two different but complementing activities requiring careful planning.

IQ tests can be very good at measuring the ability to adapt to new stimuli quickly, which is one kind of intelligence. The biggest problem with them though is that they measure your abilities as compared to your age group, so they are essentially meaningless for adults.

A certain type, yes. There is however different kinds, that I do not think it reflects. Also if the person has ADD, or another illness I do not think it can truly show their I.Q through a test you need patience to sit through.

I think they're pretty accurate on overall intelligence, but they can't just anyones wisdom.

I strongly feel IQ testing and intelligence corrrelate but do not equate to one another. Luck and thinking strategies influence. I also feel that confidence influences results given the more confident one is with their initial answer ( which is more likely to be correct than not) the higher the results of the tests are. I don't know much about this so thats my educated guess. hope It helped!

It reflects the agreement of hypotheses collected from those who created the test.