Motivation "key to high IQ score"

Intelligence tests are as much a measure of motivation as they are of mental ability, says research from the US.

 I belong to the crowd that insists that the most intelligent person in this world is probably illiterate and living in the slums somewhere. The culture you live in together with the possibilities you have in life, such a s schooling, creates unfair differences when you take an IQ test. Any one who has taken the test (not online) know there are  factors of the test that expect that you have basic knowledge about certain things. If you don't have that knowledge you will struggle with figuring out what the hell it's all about. It's almost as taking a historic person from 200 years ago, telling them to send a text message and handing them a turned off cellphone. Chances are that no matter how intelligent they are, they will not understand what a text message is or how to use that "thing" they got to create it. You will have to give them clues.

 Motivation is just another aspect of it all. If you will learn how to do something or not, is determined by how motivated you are. It is true that you won't go far if you give up before you take the first step.