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I have heard that IQ measurements correlate very well with general success in society. Peterson says they correlate better than any other measurement in human P

I have heard that IQ measurements correlate very well with general success in society. Peterson says they correlate better than any other measurement in human Psychology. (Paraphrasing and I can't validate it) Peterson also says that it doesn't matter which questions you use. People with hi scores on one test will typically have high scores on the other tests. It seems to be a hard thing for intelligent creatures to hear: There are some smarter that you and some less smart and you are most likely in the middle range somewhere.

technothrasher 4y ago
> There are some smarter that you and some less smart and you are most likely in the middle range somewhere. This always seemed to me like an important piece of social intelligence. I've noticed that people who are intelligent enough to be smarter than most around them, but who take that to mean nobody else is as smart as they are, end up getting played a lot by other folks who recognize this failure.
anm89 4y ago
I'm not disagreeing at all. I'm just saying that isn't what IQ is. It correlates with all sorts of stuff and understanding those correlations is useful. But IQ isn't its correlations. I definitely believe those correlations exist and are pretty strong. It isn't "Mental Horsepower" though. If something called "Mental Horsepower" or "General Intelligence" exist which I don't personally buy, IQ probably correlates with them but it isn't them. IQ is a location on the point of a normalized distribution of scores on a specific set of tests. Nothing more, nothing less. Correlations don't guarantee things to be true. If IQ correlates strongly with "Mental Horsepower" it could still be very possible for a specific individual to have high IQ with low "Mental Horsepower" although it is statistically less likely.

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I have heard that IQ measurements correlate very well with general success in society. Peterson says they correlate better than any other measurement in human P

by lebuffon 4y ago

technothrasher 4y ago
> There are some smarter that you and some less smart and you are most likely in the middle range somewhere. This always seemed to me like an important piece of social intelligence. I've noticed that people who are intelligent enough to be smarter than most around them, but who take that to mean nobody else is as smart as they are, end up getting played a lot by other folks who recognize this failure.
anm89 4y ago
I'm not disagreeing at all. I'm just saying that isn't what IQ is. It correlates with all sorts of stuff and understanding those correlations is useful. But IQ isn't its correlations. I definitely believe those correlations exist and are pretty strong. It isn't "Mental Horsepower" though. If something called "Mental Horsepower" or "General Intelligence" exist which I don't personally buy, IQ probably correlates with them but it isn't them. IQ is a location on the point of a normalized distribution of scores on a specific set of tests. Nothing more, nothing less. Correlations don't guarantee things to be true. If IQ correlates strongly with "Mental Horsepower" it could still be very possible for a specific individual to have high IQ with low "Mental Horsepower" although it is statistically less likely.