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I'd say the comparison is not quite right, as everyone can be assigned an IQ (however useful that may be), but not everyone aspires to be an NBA player or A-Lis
by auggierose 10y ago
I'd say the comparison is not quite right, as everyone can be assigned an IQ (however useful that may be), but not everyone aspires to be an NBA player or A-List actress.
- zepto 10y agoHow do you assign an IQ to someone who doesn't want to be tested?
- auggierose 10y agoYou don't have to, you can just use basic statistics for that, because the pool of people who have an IQ is everyone. The pool of people who aspire to be NBA players or A list actresses is not everyone though, so you have to estimate first the respective pools.
- zepto 10y agoFalse. Aspiration is a red herring. You can just as easily use statistics to assess whether an individual possesses the traits to become an NBA player or actress as you can assess their IQ without their cooperation. Conversely if someone doesn't want to participate in IQ testing, it is equivalent to them not wanting to play in the NBA.
- auggierose 10y agoThere is no doubt that you can DEFINE this to be equivalent. But then you are measuring something different from what I am interested in.
- zepto 10y agoI'm not doing anything with definitions. You have introduced an arbitrary distinction which is based on no measurable characteristic.