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This actually confirms that IQ measures intelligence, just not merely innate intelligence. Which we already knew.
by lemonfreshman 13y ago
This actually confirms that IQ measures intelligence, just not merely innate intelligence. Which we already knew.
- mc-lovin 13y agoWell the article claims IQ measures the capacity for abstraction, which isn't necessarily the same as intelligence: the best programmer isn't the one who always starts with a UML diagram.
- iopq 13y agoHuh? Programming is basically abstraction taken to the extreme. It's writing repetitive code and then going "you know what would make more sense? If I could abstract this repetitive part into another construct and then reuse it". A programmer who has bad abstraction skills will just copy paste a few times and modify the necessary parts. And forget to change stuff in a few places probably.