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Of course, IQ only weakly correlates to the intelligence that people actually refer to colloquially. It doesn't test for most behaviors that people do consider

Of course, IQ only weakly correlates to the intelligence that people actually refer to colloquially. It doesn't test for most behaviors that people do consider intelligent, and it tests a bunch of stuff completely unrelated to intelligence (e.g. cultural trivia).

jejeyyy77 2y ago
this isn't accurate at all.
- adamisom 2y ago
  Remarkable that it starts with "Of course"
  - darby_nine 2y ago
    I mean, who takes IQ seriously? It's a business metric.
- darby_nine 2y ago
  How do you figure?
tacitusarc 2y ago
No legitimate IQ test involves cultural trivia. It’s pretty much all Raven’s Progressive Matrices though that has it’s own issues.
- darby_nine 2y ago
  > No legitimate IQ test involves cultural trivia. It's often under the label "verbal comprehension".
- hirvi74 2y ago
  That is blatantly false in my experience. I once was administered an in-person WAIS-IV IQ test, which has been called the "Gold Standard of IQ Tests," from a licensed clinical psychologist for the purposes of diagnosing a medical syndrome. On the verbal reasoning portion, I distinctively remember being asked two questions that sat wrong with me (paraphrasing): 1. "Who was Sacagawea?" 2. "Who was Catherine the Great?" There were also vague questions in the word definition/comparison section. I distinctively remember one of the questions being (paraphrasing): "Compare and contrast the two words 'Practical' and 'Pragmatic.' What do the two words have in common and what are their differences?" My issue, especially with the latter question, is what type of answer is acceptable? I could say something like, "'Practical' and 'Pragmatic' both describe being concerned with reality or feasibility vs. theory." But what about the differences? What if I said something like, "Well, there is no such things a 'Pragmatic' joke." Would I have been correct, wrong, a smart ass, or at the mercy of the psychologist's opinion? Would I be marked wrong because it wasn't what the test authors' intended answer despite me being technically correct?
dtech 2y ago
IQ is only a narrow specific type of intelligence biased to western education indeed, but it certainly isn't a pop quiz like you make it our to be
- tristor 2y ago
  > IQ is only a narrow specific type of intelligence biased to western education indeed I see this claim a lot, but what is even meant by "western education" here? IQ tests show similar results in most countries that have /any/ form of formal compulsory education. It's clear that education or lack of education can affect IQ scores, but not so much that IQ tests are biased by the specification type of education. The best research I've seen on the matter concludes that education biases the results because in order to receive and participate in an IQ test you need to have some base level of language understanding of the terminology used in the IQ test itself, which implies that you've received some minimal amount of education. The most common IQ test used in the United States, the Stanford-Binet (SB5) generally recommends not administering it to people under the age of 8 years old for this reason, and there are specialized tests for children that show reduced bias for education when used on non-educated populaces. Or, in summary, it seems standard IQ tests bias for /any/ education, not specifically "western" education. In other words, there's no cultural bias as claimed.
  - philipov 2y ago
    > what is even meant by "western education" here? IQ tests how good of a computer you are.
- darby_nine 2y ago
  It certainly seemed like a pop quiz the last time I took it. I just can't imagine it's useful outside ranking people arbitrarily for the purposes of shrinking a hiring pool or some similar need.
Workaccount2 2y ago
>unrelated to intelligence (e.g. cultural trivia). When you think those facebook "test your IQ!" tests are actual IQ tests....
noch 2y ago
> IQ only weakly correlates to the intelligence […] it tests a bunch of stuff completely unrelated to intelligence (e.g. cultural trivia). These are unfortunate myths. See the following on IQ testing, relationship of various tests to general intelligence, and the absence of cultural bias in testing: - Standardized exams measure intrinsic ability, not racial or socioeconomic privilege https://milkyeggs.com/society/standardized-exams-measure-intrinsic-ability-not-racial-or-socioeconomic-privilege/ https://milkyeggs.com/society/standardized-exams-measure-int... - Fair and Square: A Conclusion on IQ Test Bias https://menghu.substack.com/p/fair-and-square-a-conclusion-on-iq-test-bias https://menghu.substack.com/p/fair-and-square-a-conclusion-o... "Generally, the most commonly used IQ tests aren’t biased or only minimally biased as to be of no practical value." - Bias is Often Unpredictable https://www.cremieux.xyz/cp/140810182 https://www.cremieux.xyz/cp/140810182 "Bias does not simply mean that a measure gives different scores to different groups. This is one of the most common misunderstandings about “bias”. What it really means is that members of different groups obtain different scores conditional on the same underlying level of ability." - The Relationship Between the Scholastic Assessment Test and General Cognitive Ability https://sci-hub.st/https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.0956-7976.2004.00687.x https://sci-hub.st/https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... "Furthermore, empirical evidence suggests a substantial relationship between the SAT and g. In a study of 339 undergraduates, Brodnick and Ree (1995) used covariance structure modeling to examine the relationship between psychometric g, socioeconomic variables, and achievement-test scores. They found substantial general-factor loadings on both the math (.698) and the verbal (.804) SAT subtests." - Systemwide Review of the Report of the Academic Council’s Standardized Testing Task Force (STTF) (2020) https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/underreview/sttf-report.pdf https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/underreview...
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- darby_nine 2y ago
  Intrinsic ability to what, cram for a test? Doesn't seem that useful to measure.

jejeyyy77 2y ago

this isn't accurate at all.

adamisom 2y ago
Remarkable that it starts with "Of course"
- darby_nine 2y ago
  I mean, who takes IQ seriously? It's a business metric.
darby_nine 2y ago
How do you figure?

tacitusarc 2y ago

No legitimate IQ test involves cultural trivia. It’s pretty much all Raven’s Progressive Matrices though that has it’s own issues.

darby_nine 2y ago
> No legitimate IQ test involves cultural trivia. It's often under the label "verbal comprehension".
hirvi74 2y ago
That is blatantly false in my experience. I once was administered an in-person WAIS-IV IQ test, which has been called the "Gold Standard of IQ Tests," from a licensed clinical psychologist for the purposes of diagnosing a medical syndrome. On the verbal reasoning portion, I distinctively remember being asked two questions that sat wrong with me (paraphrasing): 1. "Who was Sacagawea?" 2. "Who was Catherine the Great?" There were also vague questions in the word definition/comparison section. I distinctively remember one of the questions being (paraphrasing): "Compare and contrast the two words 'Practical' and 'Pragmatic.' What do the two words have in common and what are their differences?" My issue, especially with the latter question, is what type of answer is acceptable? I could say something like, "'Practical' and 'Pragmatic' both describe being concerned with reality or feasibility vs. theory." But what about the differences? What if I said something like, "Well, there is no such things a 'Pragmatic' joke." Would I have been correct, wrong, a smart ass, or at the mercy of the psychologist's opinion? Would I be marked wrong because it wasn't what the test authors' intended answer despite me being technically correct?

dtech 2y ago

IQ is only a narrow specific type of intelligence biased to western education indeed, but it certainly isn't a pop quiz like you make it our to be

tristor 2y ago
> IQ is only a narrow specific type of intelligence biased to western education indeed I see this claim a lot, but what is even meant by "western education" here? IQ tests show similar results in most countries that have /any/ form of formal compulsory education. It's clear that education or lack of education can affect IQ scores, but not so much that IQ tests are biased by the specification type of education. The best research I've seen on the matter concludes that education biases the results because in order to receive and participate in an IQ test you need to have some base level of language understanding of the terminology used in the IQ test itself, which implies that you've received some minimal amount of education. The most common IQ test used in the United States, the Stanford-Binet (SB5) generally recommends not administering it to people under the age of 8 years old for this reason, and there are specialized tests for children that show reduced bias for education when used on non-educated populaces. Or, in summary, it seems standard IQ tests bias for /any/ education, not specifically "western" education. In other words, there's no cultural bias as claimed.
- philipov 2y ago
  > what is even meant by "western education" here? IQ tests how good of a computer you are.
darby_nine 2y ago
It certainly seemed like a pop quiz the last time I took it. I just can't imagine it's useful outside ranking people arbitrarily for the purposes of shrinking a hiring pool or some similar need.

Workaccount2 2y ago

>unrelated to intelligence (e.g. cultural trivia). When you think those facebook "test your IQ!" tests are actual IQ tests....

noch 2y ago

> IQ only weakly correlates to the intelligence […] it tests a bunch of stuff completely unrelated to intelligence (e.g. cultural trivia). These are unfortunate myths. See the following on IQ testing, relationship of various tests to general intelligence, and the absence of cultural bias in testing: - Standardized exams measure intrinsic ability, not racial or socioeconomic privilege https://milkyeggs.com/society/standardized-exams-measure-intrinsic-ability-not-racial-or-socioeconomic-privilege/ https://milkyeggs.com/society/standardized-exams-measure-int... - Fair and Square: A Conclusion on IQ Test Bias https://menghu.substack.com/p/fair-and-square-a-conclusion-on-iq-test-bias https://menghu.substack.com/p/fair-and-square-a-conclusion-o... "Generally, the most commonly used IQ tests aren’t biased or only minimally biased as to be of no practical value." - Bias is Often Unpredictable https://www.cremieux.xyz/cp/140810182 https://www.cremieux.xyz/cp/140810182 "Bias does not simply mean that a measure gives different scores to different groups. This is one of the most common misunderstandings about “bias”. What it really means is that members of different groups obtain different scores conditional on the same underlying level of ability." - The Relationship Between the Scholastic Assessment Test and General Cognitive Ability https://sci-hub.st/https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.0956-7976.2004.00687.x https://sci-hub.st/https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... "Furthermore, empirical evidence suggests a substantial relationship between the SAT and g. In a study of 339 undergraduates, Brodnick and Ree (1995) used covariance structure modeling to examine the relationship between psychometric g, socioeconomic variables, and achievement-test scores. They found substantial general-factor loadings on both the math (.698) and the verbal (.804) SAT subtests." - Systemwide Review of the Report of the Academic Council’s Standardized Testing Task Force (STTF) (2020) https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/underreview/sttf-report.pdf https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/underreview...

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darby_nine 2y ago
Intrinsic ability to what, cram for a test? Doesn't seem that useful to measure.