>IQ is a model. Everything is a model, but IQ is literally the most statistically significant idea in psychology. Your strict resolution that IQ doesn't mean

>IQ is a model. Everything is a model, but IQ is literally the most statistically significant idea in psychology. Your strict resolution that IQ doesn't mean intelligence is just your own opinion not really backed by any fact, just an opinion that people are more complicated than numbers. It's true, people are more complicated than numbers, but nonetheless they can be accurately rank ordered and IQ, as you said, means something. It doesn't say anything about accomplishments, or quality of character. But it does say something about fluid intelligence. Nobody cares if it perfectly matches some arbitrary thing you decided it needs to match to count for you. The mozart comment doesn't even fit into the conversation. Nobody said anything about contributions to anything. Fluid intelligence is a measurable property, even if its not measuring it to your personal satisfaction. The question becomes why are you more of an authority than those mathematicians and psychologists who did the research? You're not. Your opinion doesn't invalidate theirs. It just says you didn't do the research.