Being somebody who was always labelled as “smart” growing up - I was in the “gifted” program in elementary school, so there’s that - in a way, I want intelligen

Being somebody who was always labelled as “smart” growing up - I was in the “gifted” program in elementary school, so there’s that - in a way, I want intelligence to be something that can be quickly, easily, and objectively measured, even if it turns out I'm actually not as smart as I’ve been led to believe I was. I can understand why this would make a lot of people uncomfortable, though. If IQ tests were ever shown to be perfectly correlated with that nebulous quality we label “intelligence”, it’s also not something you can improve. Your IQ, and likely your income level, are going to stick with you forever, just like your height will. Still, from what I can tell about this Taleb guy (other than that he seems like a difficult personality) is that he’s just trying to figure out how accurately IQ tests correlate with actual intelligence; he’s not railing against the concept of trying to measure it in the first place, as many others do.