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I think this is required reading on IQ and g: http://bactra.org/weblog/520.html http://bactra.org/weblog/520.html http://bactra.org/weblog/523.html http://bac

• tptacek 3y ago
  Cosign on those, especially the second one, which is a deep dive into why it might be hard not to come up with a "g-factor" even if you deliberately made up bullshit tests (which is not what people did). Ned Block also has an excellent, deep, and very accessible piece --- more targeted to a lay audience than Cosma Shalizi's pieces, which are very much "about" statistics --- on what it is "heritability" means (tl;dr: it does not mean what most comments on HN seem to think it means): https://www.nedblock.us/papers/heritability.pdf https://www.nedblock.us/papers/heritability.pdf