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Meaningless to whom? Do we have a better intelligence metric these days? ... or is this satire?
by asguy 7y ago
Meaningless to whom? Do we have a better intelligence metric these days? ... or is this satire?
- jjeaff 7y agoMeaningless to everyone except for those that care about IQ.
- tsimionescu 7y agoThe fact that we don't have a good metric of intelligence doesn't make iq a useful measure of intelligence. IQ is only useful in determining pathologies, at the lower end, where any test is usually helpful. For anything else, it's almost entirely snake oil. If you want to know whether someone is good at something, the best way to test that is to do a test for that particular thing. A test for general inteligence, based on the assumption that general intelligence aptitude is normally distributed in the population, is just not good for anything, and is unlikely to be a reflection of reality, it's pure scientism (instead of science).