> we use IQ to select for success, then say IQ is correlated with success. We don’t, though. The most financially successful people in the world are sports st

> we use IQ to select for success, then say IQ is correlated with success. We don’t, though. The most financially successful people in the world are sports stars, movie stars, and business owners, none of whose success has anything to do with IQ scores. He bangs on IQ, but nobody actually uses IQ to select for anything – it’s actually prohibited by law in the US (https://www.britannica.com/event/Griggs-v-Duke-Power-Co https://www.britannica.com/event/Griggs-v-Duke-Power-Co). We do use SAT scores to determine admission to college, and SAT scores correlate pretty well with IQ scores, though, so I guess he’s indirectly complaining about SAT scores being used for college admissions? There’s nothing particularly new about this, though – people have complained for eons that measuring people’s test scores only tracks how good they are at taking tests. The problem is, true or not, tests are the only objective way we’ve ever come up with to figure out if somebody actually knows something.