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I have no idea what you think this is supposed to prove. People with a weird brain condition have weird results on brain tests? >Does IQ measure general compet
by Houshalter 9y ago
I have no idea what you think this is supposed to prove. People with a weird brain condition have weird results on brain tests?
>Does IQ measure general competence or does it measure something else?
It's an Intelligence Quotient. It measures intelligence. No one said anything about "general competence", whatever that even means. I imagine intelligence is an important part of "general competence" though.
- DoreenMichele 9y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15889035 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15889035 You are contradicting yourself.
- Houshalter 9y agoNo, I'm not.
- brailsafe 9y agoLucio in one of the parents proposed that IQ is highly correlated with general competence.
- sydd 9y agoNo, this is one of the biggest misundertandings about the IQ tests. It does not measure inteeligence, it measures something which we tagged with the name "IQ". We cannot measure intelligence, since we cant even define it properly (in a way that we attach a measurement unit ot it).
- Houshalter 9y agoIt is called an intelligence test. Actual scientists talk about it and use it as such. It is a combination of measures of many different cognitive abilities. Which seems like a pretty good definition for intelligence to me.