>“IQ” is a stale test meant to measure mental capacity but in fact mostly measures extreme unintelligence (learning difficulties)
>Designed for learning disabilities, and given that it is not too needed there (see argument further down), it ends up selecting for exam-takers, paper shufflers, obedient IYIs (intellectuals yet idiots), ill adapted for “real life”.
>The concept is poorly thought out mathematically by the field (commits a severe flaw in correlation under fat tails; fails to properly deal with dimensionality; treats the mind as an instrument not a complex system), and seems to be promoted by:
>racists/eugenists
>psychometrics peddlers looking for suckers
Discuss,also sauce here:
https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-swindle-f131c101ba39
>Designed for learning disabilities, and given that it is not too needed there (see argument further down), it ends up selecting for exam-takers, paper shufflers, obedient IYIs (intellectuals yet idiots), ill adapted for “real life”.
>The concept is poorly thought out mathematically by the field (commits a severe flaw in correlation under fat tails; fails to properly deal with dimensionality; treats the mind as an instrument not a complex system), and seems to be promoted by:
>racists/eugenists
>psychometrics peddlers looking for suckers
Discuss,also sauce here:
https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-swindle-f131c101ba39
