Well a decade or more ago the idea of an online iq test was in the realms of "maybe iq is pretty dumb but there's no harm in doing this online." Nowadays I thin

Well a decade or more ago the idea of an online iq test was in the realms of "maybe iq is pretty dumb but there's no harm in doing this online." Nowadays I think most of us think more along the lines of "How stupid would you have to be to do an online quiz like this?" Is it phishing? Is it goog-facebrick spying? Can the people serving this keep it secure? Will it screw up a loan application or health insurance in 10 years time? Self selection criteria have changed for the same population. IQ tests are sometimes good at identifying people with very real intellectual problems, I'm told. The bottom tail. Utterly useless for anything else in science. People still love them, much of psychology still acts more like a religious cult than science and still venerates them. For anyone interested in something more than "feelings as evidence" and "bullshit to get a TED talk invite" dismissing any study using iq out of hand with extreme prejudice is likely to save you some time. Are there any at all? The preface justifying iq test usage as evidence in the face of so much junk science would be necessary and something to read. /me waves to the psychologists who believe (believe so hard) they're about to respond with the usual tropes of "you just embarrassed yourself" before sending the link on their slack channels to make sure it's properly downvoted. How's the replication crisis guys? Your 101 textbooks all still full of the stanford prison experiment? The brain is fascinating, psychology is poetry masquerading as science about it. Clean up your discpline's act or just move to liberal arts and stop defiling real science. "Not me, I don't..." Then call it out, loudly. Starting with the 101 textbooks at your institution. Count the discredited studies that make "great stories" for freshmen that have been totally discredited. The correct number you should get to in your count is zero in case that isn't clear. I enjoyed that little rant. Should be more of them about such garbage as iq.