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"If you tried to claim that a person's physical strength could be measured with a single number" Its consistently measured as a single number by the US militar
by madeuptempacct 8y ago
"If you tried to claim that a person's physical strength could be measured with a single number"
Its consistently measured as a single number by the US military - it's just a combination of your performance on several exercises - traditionally pull ups, distance run times, swim times, number of crunches, etc.
So, again, fitness is consistently measured as a single number by one of the world's largest organizations. Don't postulate it's absurd. The same aggregation can be done for intelligence.
- bloak 8y agoYes, you can do that: you aggregate the results from some arbitrary tests, using some arbitrary weights, and out comes an arbitrary number. The trick must be to give that number a catchy name, so that people think it's something highly meaningful, almost akin to mass, distance or time.