1. I think the 2 most important aspects of intelligence that should be measured in an IQ test are the ability to solve real world problems - Practical Intelligence and the ability to understand our emotions and others - Emotional Intelligence. We all live once for what, less than a hundred years? Who wants to be intelligent because they spend their whole life studying and wasting their life away not learning anything but a bunch of numbers and definitions. I think practical and emotional intelligence are important because it is all about the real world - the world we live in. Being practical intelligent helps you to solve everyday problems. Emotionally we all want to live happy and stable lives, that is why I think emotional intelligence is so important. Both emotional and practical intelligence is important no matter what culture, age, or gender.
2. To totally eliminate cultural differences? I think - impossible. No matter what type of test you use their is always going to be one type of culture where it is more familiar to them than others. I think though that there are many ways to almost eliminate it or greatly diminish the differences. One way is to use geometrical patterns having to pick out the last pattern. This test is called the Raven's Progressive Matrices. Another way is to design culture-fair tests that totally eliminate the language- giving no culture a greater advantage because of familiarity of language. In reality, we all know that different cultures are better at different areas of intelligence just by the way their culture acts and behaves.
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