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Anybody who knows a little about testing and IQ eventually figures out this is not a perfect rating. Sometimes there is an outlier that makes the whole thing s
by fuzzfactor 2y ago
Anybody who knows a little about testing and IQ eventually figures out this is not a perfect rating.
Sometimes there is an outlier that makes the whole thing seem suspect in some way or another.
If a truly intelligent person were to achieve only a mediocre score on a test like this, the article could very well be a "measured" response to that discrepancy alone. "Extensively" measured really, this is quite technical and not a short blog post.
To the degree that it can be measured of course . . .
- netdevphoenix 2y agoWhat does a "truly intelligent" person even mean? Intelligence doesn't have an objective actual definition that is reliable and not contradictory. It is so odd, that in science, you wouldn't make tests for something you haven't defined, but for some reason everyone believes to have an objective, reliable and consistent definition of intelligence. People just rush to come up with tests for some reason. It is really odd