Children, Patterns and Patterns
Children can be very strange and surprising sometimes, right? Every once in a while, you see questions asked of children on websites, television, or social media, and the surprising answers given to these questions that no one would ever think of. “Aren’t these kids wonderful?” We grumble (I don't grumble, I don't find it great either).
Today, a memory from my childhood came to mind. I don't remember which subject it was, but I was in an exam for one of the subjects. “What are Atatürk’s accomplishments?” (it was a similar question) I distinctly remember answering the question, "What is the meaning of this?" Of course, I write down everything we've been taught beautifully, but I don't stop there. I can't remember why, but I start throwing it out there. I list police officers, traffic police, television, and anything else that comes to mind, claiming Atatürk invented it. I guess, with my childish mindset, I thought I didn't know enough, so I wrote down whatever I could find. My teacher saw this interesting answer and made me take the same exam twice more, but I stubbornly continued doing the same things. I don't remember if she warned me or informed me.
One of the things that provoked these reactions was the interesting answers given to exams. Today, these memories and what I'm writing about came back to me, and I smiled. What I'll write next will be about patterns I've connected to—patterns I've seen.
We all know there's an IQ test. It's one of the standardized tests claimed to measure intelligence. The fundamental reason people are different is the relationships they can form in their environment and the patterns and patterns they can see. In my opinion, this is actually the foundation of our intelligence. Whether there's more to it than that, I can't yet answer.
Consider a cat. When we play with a string with a ball attached to it, the cat can't grasp the relationship between the ball and us, and therefore can't see the pattern. Therefore, it plays with the ball until it gets bored, unaware that we're moving it. They can't understand that we're moving it. Because our ability to grasp the relationships in our environment is so advanced, we can see much more complex patterns. With Newton's theory of gravity, we realized that galaxies spin faster than the stars at the edge should, yet they haven't broken away from the galaxy, and we saw a relationship. Later, we see a very complex pattern and propose the idea of a dark matter that must exist. We see that almost all the galaxies around us are moving away from us, and we grasp a relationship, suggesting that the universe must be expanding. Not content with this, we realize that a phenomenon called the Big Bang (the pattern) must have occurred, and we understand that if this happened, there must be radiation. Of course, we discover all of these things after a while. I could talk about a lot more than I can fit here, but I realize I'd get bored just writing.
Anyway, back to our main topic. IQ level isn't a fixed number. Don't worry if you score low. It means you're just an ordinary person who hasn't paid enough attention to relationships, doesn't observe their surroundings, and doesn't even truly see the street they walk on. Questions like these are sometimes shared on social media, and you'll find varying answers. Let me tell you something: all of them are correct. If you examine these questions closely, you'll find multiple relationships and patterns. I can always see at least three. Sometimes I find other patterns I don't see in others' answers. In short, what determines what's right is determined by the patterns we see. You can apply this to human societies.
As I said, don't worry about your IQ; it can be raised. Before I got involved in software and science, I had a normal score (around 90), but after specializing in software and pursuing science as a hobby, I found I could easily score around 130. As a natural consequence of my profession and hobbies, it's allowed me to detect more relationships, patterns, and patterns. I think you're noticing the connection between this and your analytical side.
The bottom line is, I see no problem in attributing this to children's surprising and unusual responses and behaviors. As we learn, grow, and observe, we develop a solid pattern that we accept for everything, and this pattern becomes our standard of living. Because children lack a standardized pattern, they can give unusual answers and exhibit behaviors we can't quite understand. It's not a big deal, is it?
Actually, there are other things to exaggerate, but that would be the subject of a different article.
