>>12925635>multiple people "made up" the same abstraction on different occasionsI don't think they did, I'm pretty sure that pythagoras' work influenced others and I've seen zero proof that mesoamericans invented any sorts of pythagorean-like work. But even if it is true, then multiple people made up the same conceptions regarding the alpha male in the sky.
>numbers themselves have the exact same set of fundamental axioms in different societies that were isolated from eachother. This is very much not the case, it's well documented that grasping the concept of zero and negative numbers was completely alien for greeks and roman mathematicians and considered "false" or "wrong", and it wasn't until muslim scholars introduced the concept properly in the 9th century that europeans adopted it (although most resisted until the 17th century).
>yet many prominent figures in psychometric and intelligence research advocate for genocide based on these limited IQ tests results.And Pythagoras supposedly drowned Hippasus for discovering irrational numbers and pointing out that not all numbers can be expressed as fraction of integers.
>not to mention unfair policies and the effect of the education system, ask any teacher or professor and they will tell you that putting students on a curve is a bad thingYet students are tested and given credits based on their tests all the time.
>a physiological explanation of intelligence is much more descriptive, hard set and replicable than IQ testsYou're missing my point. My point is that we have no such explanation. So unless you're suggesting that we should make no attempts what so ever to quantify intelligence until we have a complete understanding of life, the universe and everything, I'll say that IQ testing is just fine. It's not perfect, but it is robust enough to serve a purpose.
