> IQ is one of the best understood and well studied metrics in human behavior Not the OP and I don't have any studies at hand, but what I think he/she meant to

> IQ is one of the best understood and well studied metrics in human behavior Not the OP and I don't have any studies at hand, but what I think he/she meant to say was that IQ tests only validate the worldview of said "proctors", which in our case happen to be proctors belonging to a technological society. We don't know if said IQ tests would hold any value in a hunter-gatherer society or in a society based on different things compared to the things that are seen as "smart" by our said technological society (my instinct is that they won't, and as such I agree with OP that IQ tests only serve to validate a certain state of things). Later edit: Come to think of it the request itself of "show me the studies" represents a point of view specific to a certain "world" (that technological society I mentioned), your request would be null in a society "built" on different epistemic stuff (for example in Roman times one might have asked "show me if this is true based on how that crow flies" [1] etc) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augury https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augury