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It always struck me as crazy to represent all that is intelligence in one number. Also AFAIK many things such as "social intelligence" are not tested at all. I

• DoreenMichele 9y ago
  I usually cringe.
• Banthum 9y ago
  The crazy thing you think people are doing is not actually being done. IQ is not intended to represent 'all that intelligence is'. It is simply one way to measure a cross section of particular capacities that are valuable in a modern society and are easy to test. E.g It doesn't attempt to measure the ability to track an animal, or remember the face of a person you met once last year. This test is of interest because it is strongly predictive of other things we do care about, like educational attainment, criminal behavior, economic outcomes, etc.
• 0xcde4c3db 9y ago
  > Also AFAIK many things such as "social intelligence" are not tested at all. As far as I've read about it (not an expert; I've just seen this debate more than once before and tried to educate myself on the basics), that's because every time someone proposes an actual objective test for one of the "other intelligences", it turns out to either be primarily dependent on training (i.e. measuring conditioned behaviors) or to correlate so strongly with IQ that the test is effectively an IQ test.