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thats just being butthurt because we chose to call it intelligence, and somehow not being classically intelligent is understood as a personal insult. the IQ si
by wayn3 9y ago
thats just being butthurt because we chose to call it intelligence, and somehow not being classically intelligent is understood as a personal insult.
the IQ simply doesnt measure creative genius. if it was called "the test that measures how good a persons brain is at pattern recogniton", you wouldnt care. you'd simply state that you're not particularly interested in logical reasoning.
intelligence, in terms of IQ, is a more or less well defined metric. in popular language, its conflated with "not being a mouthbreather". thats why people get pissy when they dont score above average on an iq test. its kinda pointless, really. people only care about iq tests because of the name.
- lolbutthut339 9y ago"butthurt" is such a rigorously defined term. thanks. what value is there for me to use some "standardized measure of intelligence"? i'm more interested in being around people that are capable of helping solve problems we are mutually interested in. if they can do that, why should i give a shit where they rank on some "standardized scale"? thus that score has no value to me, and it's perfectly legit for me to mock it's supposed "worth". makes me think of Goodhart's law.
- soVeryTired 9y agoIt's possible to be a very able, erudite person and not do well on an IQ test. Conversely, it's possible to score highly and be incompetent. Intelligence is an ill-defined, nebulous quantity. IQ is a precisely defined quantity. Since intelligence is hard to measure and IQ is easy to measure, it's tempting to use one as a proxy for the other. But I, and the other posters above me, just don't find that very convincing.
- wayn3 9y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFgXF0a_Yw4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFgXF0a_Yw4
- soVeryTired 9y agoNot even a little. But you won't get much respect on HN with that attitude.