Did they ever explain how Mallory got a genius-level score on an IQ test?
Or did they just leave it as a plot hole?
The episode is called "Designated Hitter", from the fourth season:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0577302/reference
Iq tests measure how well you conform and how well you follow the company's directions. They don't measure how 'smart' you are.
shareYou don't know what you're talking about. IQ tests aren't a perfect measure of intelligence, but they are good enough that Mallory would never score genius level on one, nor would she ever come close to Alex's score on the same test. They contain math questions for example, and we know that Alex was good in math and Mallory wasn't. They also contain problems pertaining to logic, classification, visual, spatial, analogies, pattern recognition, etc. None of these things have anything to do with "conformity" or following "the company's directions" (not that I have any idea what "company" you're referring to).
sharesure I do my brother is horrible academically but he does excellent @ testing. He is a male version of Mallory.
share"sure I do"
No, you don't. See above.
"my brother is horrible academically but he does excellent @ testing."
Even if I accepted your anecdote as fact, there's not enough information for it to be relevant. For example, is he "horrible academically" because he doesn't understand the academic concepts, or is it because he's lazy? Mallory obviously didn't understand the concepts, which was demonstrated in various episodes, i.e., she was stupid (low ability to understand/learn), which means she would inevitably do very poorly on an IQ test. Her getting a genius-level score on an IQ test was a plot hole.
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"Iq tests measure how well you conform"
yeah right on!
Damn the man , save the Empire!