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It's sort of like getting a computer's performance. All sorts of things goes into a measure. Central processing speed, memory, memory access speed, cache size

It's sort of like getting a computer's performance. All sorts of things goes into a measure. Central processing speed, memory, memory access speed, cache size, software optimization and cache build up. I think some people really WANT IQ to be only about central processing speed, but since that's not measurable we're trying to tease out what it is from the end performance metric. But really everything is important to intelligence, and something like software optimization and cache build up is really just education. IQ measures things that are useful to other people when thinking about a person's as-is work-value, but is fundamentally flawed and useless when applied to a person's potential value or moral value. But since the former is true it will continue to be a thing that people care about.

mjburgess 4y ago
There is zero research to show IQ tests count as valid and reliable measures of anything associated with intelligence. Your hypothesis as to what properties minds have, what those properties give rise to, and how IQ tests count as measures *has no scientific backing*. This description of IQ tests is, imv, an extremely unlikely account. If you want to show IQ scores are measures of these properties, please provide (1) a theory of the mind in which these properties appear as experimental variables; (2) experiments in which these variables are controllable; and (3) evidence that IQ correlates with the expected controlled outcomes. Note, the above has never been done. Making the assertion that IQ measures intelligence circular. It is simply, asserted.
- Jensson 4y ago
  > There is zero research to show IQ tests count as valid and reliable measures of anything associated with intelligence. It is the opposite, IQ correlates with basically every measure and score people have came up with that they think could represent intelligence in some way. This concept is called G.

mjburgess 4y ago

There is zero research to show IQ tests count as valid and reliable measures of anything associated with intelligence. Your hypothesis as to what properties minds have, what those properties give rise to, and how IQ tests count as measures *has no scientific backing*. This description of IQ tests is, imv, an extremely unlikely account. If you want to show IQ scores are measures of these properties, please provide (1) a theory of the mind in which these properties appear as experimental variables; (2) experiments in which these variables are controllable; and (3) evidence that IQ correlates with the expected controlled outcomes. Note, the above has never been done. Making the assertion that IQ measures intelligence circular. It is simply, asserted.

Jensson 4y ago
> There is zero research to show IQ tests count as valid and reliable measures of anything associated with intelligence. It is the opposite, IQ correlates with basically every measure and score people have came up with that they think could represent intelligence in some way. This concept is called G.