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> Having a high IQ is kinda hard to verify directly. No it isn't. You literally just give them an IQ test. That costs at most 2 hours and maybe $150 at most.
by daymanstep 2y ago
> Having a high IQ is kinda hard to verify directly.
No it isn't. You literally just give them an IQ test. That costs at most 2 hours and maybe $150 at most.
Ironically, having a high IQ is a much more easily verifiable claim than any of the other claims on your list ("pleasant to work with", "practical" etc)
- DanielHB 2y agoI worked in two companies who did IQ tests for hiring, the people in those companies were very knowledgeable engineers. Not necessarily good engineers, but they knew their shit. Being cracked at something doesn't make you a good engineer by itself, but it did skew the average up.
- JackSlateur 2y agoThe older you are, the more useless are IQ tests Because the whole thing of those tests is to test intelligence, not knowledge. And the older you are, the more knowledge you got. When I was like 7, I passed an IQ test. I did it again, for fun, at 30yo. I then noticed things that I now know: for instance, XOR (as in the boolean operation). When I did it at 7yo, I had to understand XOR. When I was 30yo, I had time to learn XOR. Doing IQ tests for adult is how you have people with 165 IQ everywhere. What a joke.
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- golly_ned 2y agoThat is -- it's hard for one to directly verify the IQ of a peer besides submitting them to an IQ test, since we're trying to assess whether an engineering peer is good by means of some proxy.
- BrandoElFollito 2y agoAll my IQ tests show results between a chair and a fly. The testers were horrified, and so I was. I am still wondering over all these years if this is the test or if this is me :)