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More fundamentally, I would imagine that “intelligence” is an ill-defined concept unless one is willing to define it through the propensity for good performance
by ssivark 5y ago
More fundamentally, I would imagine that “intelligence” is an ill-defined concept unless one is willing to define it through the propensity for good performance in a certain kind of activity. At that point, the relation is tautologically true. If it isn’t, it can be argued that the wrong/useless measure of intelligence is being used.
- paulpauper 5y agoIt is defined and is predictive. For example, educational attainment , job performance, income and wealth. The DOD considers it real enough that all recruits must pass a cogntive screening test, the AFQT, which is like a proxy for measuring IQ.
- nradov 5y agoHow then do you explain people like Donald Rumsfeld? He was highly intelligent by any standard measure, yet managed to make consistently bad decisions as Secretary of Defense.
- bmeski 5y agoThat’s what he wanted us to think.
- kbelder 5y agoMarx was very intelligent, but so was Adam Smith. William F. Buckley was very intelligent, but so was Gore Vidal. There are many, many topics where increasing intelligence does not mean increasing convergence of conclusions. The further away you get from hard science, the easier it is to diverge... building (intelligently) upon incorrect and hard-to-falsify foundations.
- magicalist 5y ago> It is defined and is predictive Somewhat predictive. > The DOD considers it real enough that all recruits must pass a cogntive screening test, the AFQT, which is like a proxy for measuring IQ. The DOD also often requires polygraph tests, so not the best endorsement.
- civilized 5y agoDecades of intelligence research has found that people with high IQs have the propensity for good performance in just about any cognitive task you set before them.
- robbedpeter 5y agoThere is a bit of a circular definition there - people with high iq are good at what people with high iq are good at. IQ is a predictor of success in almost any particular metric for which it's reasonable to measure (so things like success in visual art and music don't correlate as well. ) In finances, career paths, academia, social status, politics, writing and so on, IQ strongly correlates to relative performance. IQ may be a poor proxy for some strictly well derived fundamental of cognition, but we don't have that quite yet. Maybe we'll be able to ask gpt-9000 and get a sensible answer?
- McNuts 5y agoMaybe this is just a tiny exception, and maybe it is even wrong, but I've read that ADHD has no correlation with IQ. Yet, people with ADHD are clearly bad at some cognitive tasks.