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IQ doesn’t measure intelligence so for all we know this just shows that IQ tests measure how little lead you’ve been exposed to

gordian-mind 5y ago
Adding this to the list of things IQ tests accurately predict: 1) school performance 2) job performance 3) income 4) crime rate 5) health and mortality 6) quantity of lead exposed to 7) NOT intelligence
- throwaway-m3232 5y ago
  >3) income Hm, I know some obvious contradictions. Just saying.. not interested in discussing this.
  - imoverclocked 5y ago
    every rule has its exception(s)
  - gordian-mind 5y ago
    Individual cases do not invalidate statistical trends...
catchclose8919 5y ago
That's one hard to parse sentence there... or maybe I've been exposed to too much lead as a child :) In all seriousness, IQ is an important component of intelligence, mainly "fluid intelligence" that correlates well to learning speed in science and technology field, so for anyone that needs to do lots of learning/unlearning and career/domain hopping like we're all going to do more and more in the future it matters a hell of a lot! I a world where someone could pick a job/domain and stick to it for life, IQ would matter but less... but it's not the world we're living in, everything is accelerating and our kids are likely to go through quite a few career changes / professional re-conversions etc.
ascii_pasta 5y ago
Genuinely curious, Where are you learning this from?
throwyawayyyy 5y ago
Seems a reasonable assumption that lowering IQ is a decent proxy for other damage lead does to the brain, right? It would be weird if it just damaged the bits associated with doing well on IQ tests, and left the rest alone. E.g. it happens that IQ is something we measure, and EQ much less so. That lead leads to measurable reductions in IQ is strong evidence that it damages EQ too. (As its association with crime would suggest.)

gordian-mind 5y ago

Adding this to the list of things IQ tests accurately predict: 1) school performance 2) job performance 3) income 4) crime rate 5) health and mortality 6) quantity of lead exposed to 7) NOT intelligence

throwaway-m3232 5y ago
>3) income Hm, I know some obvious contradictions. Just saying.. not interested in discussing this.
- imoverclocked 5y ago
  every rule has its exception(s)
- gordian-mind 5y ago
  Individual cases do not invalidate statistical trends...

catchclose8919 5y ago

That's one hard to parse sentence there... or maybe I've been exposed to too much lead as a child :) In all seriousness, IQ is an important component of intelligence, mainly "fluid intelligence" that correlates well to learning speed in science and technology field, so for anyone that needs to do lots of learning/unlearning and career/domain hopping like we're all going to do more and more in the future it matters a hell of a lot! I a world where someone could pick a job/domain and stick to it for life, IQ would matter but less... but it's not the world we're living in, everything is accelerating and our kids are likely to go through quite a few career changes / professional re-conversions etc.

ascii_pasta 5y ago

Genuinely curious, Where are you learning this from?

throwyawayyyy 5y ago

Seems a reasonable assumption that lowering IQ is a decent proxy for other damage lead does to the brain, right? It would be weird if it just damaged the bits associated with doing well on IQ tests, and left the rest alone. E.g. it happens that IQ is something we measure, and EQ much less so. That lead leads to measurable reductions in IQ is strong evidence that it damages EQ too. (As its association with crime would suggest.)