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FWIW https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-swindle-f131c101ba39 https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-...

• scarmig 8y ago
  Taleb is unreadable. I have to wipe my forehead of the vituperative spittle after every paragraph. Cosma Shalizi has a much better critique, although it too has some flaws: http://bactra.org/weblog/523.html http://bactra.org/weblog/523.html
  • war1025 8y ago
    I've largely stopped following Taleb, mainly because he seems to have taken "don't be a pushover" and misconstrued it to mean "be an ass". He has some good points though.
    • icebraining 8y ago
      I find him much less of an ass in interviews, at least those with Russ Roberts (of Econtalk), whom he likes.
  • barry-cotter 8y ago
    If by some flaws you mean the same logic proves barometric pressure does not exist. https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2019/p_a_statistical_myth.html https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2019/p_a_statistical_myth... > Anyone following Nassim Taleb's dissembling on IQ lately has likely stumbled across an argument, originally created by Cosma Shalizi, which purports to show that the psychometric g is a statistical myth. But I realized that based on this argument, not only is psychometrics a deeply flawed science, but so is thermodynamics!
• adamisom 8y ago
  That piece is emotional AF. That doesn't necessarily mean it's wrong, but here is a concrete sign that it is extremely biased "and salary earners in structured jobs that resemble the tests" Ha! Haha! Is Taleb wilfully ignoring that most people work salaried (or wage) jobs?!? Most do not become hedge fund managers, entrepreneurs, independent authors.