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IQ is not a useful metric (both as far as most prospective employers, and myself, go): what matters more to the bottom-line is total ability to-do-the-job, wher
by DaiPlusPlus 3y ago
IQ is not a useful metric (both as far as most prospective employers, and myself, go): what matters more to the bottom-line is total ability to-do-the-job, where soft-skills and EQ matter just-as-much, if not far greater than, a dimenionless scalar that simply indicates' one's ability to do well on IQ tests.
I'm glad IQ tests are banned for employment purposes.
- obviouslynotme 3y agoIQ is an incredibly useful metric and why we sort our society on SAT scores. It's just not the only useful metric.
- snowwrestler 3y agoWe do not sort our society on SAT scores.
- polski-g 3y agoI'm certain you have heard phrases similar to the ones you just wrote before, by people just as clueless about the predictive validity of IQ, as you are.
- DaiPlusPlus 3y ago> predictive validity of IQ I'm not disputing that. I just think it's dehumanising to reduce someone down to a single number, especially when so many other factors about a person need to be taken into consideration. My moral-outrage here is my impression that the OP thinks IQ is all that matters, or that it's valid to make significant life-impacting and (business-impacting) decisions based solely on that number. To me, it's same bad-idea as the UK's "11+" exam system (fortunately now long abandoned) that practically determined someone's entire life based on a single exam taken at age 11. --- Also, I find it somewhat amusing that the more someone cares about high IQ scores, the lower their EQ scores tend to be.