It’s a test of pattern recognition. The difficulties come from trying to apply similar measurements between disparate populations, as the questions themselves tend to rely upon common understandings of the world. You can measure two people from two different cultures with two different tests, but then it’s more difficult to claim that the resulting scores are comparable. As long as people understand that it’s a rough approximation rather than something akin to video game stats, then it’s quite useful.
Even video game stats have the same problems though, your W/L ratio in free for all should be a lot lower than in team deathmatch, or if you are playing a support class it’s expected you get less kills per game so comparing a support player vs a fragger will get you errors but if you control for as many variables as possible then IQ can be a not complete shit variable
Ok, but if you’re gonna make a joke like that in a serious thread about actual IQ, you’re probably gonna want to include a little bit more so people are able to pick up what you’re putting down.
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It’s not canceled. It’s just not an accurate reflection of inherent overall intelligence but, instead, a measurement of very specific mental skills.
It’s a test of pattern recognition. The difficulties come from trying to apply similar measurements between disparate populations, as the questions themselves tend to rely upon common understandings of the world. You can measure two people from two different cultures with two different tests, but then it’s more difficult to claim that the resulting scores are comparable. As long as people understand that it’s a rough approximation rather than something akin to video game stats, then it’s quite useful.
Even video game stats have the same problems though, your W/L ratio in free for all should be a lot lower than in team deathmatch, or if you are playing a support class it’s expected you get less kills per game so comparing a support player vs a fragger will get you errors but if you control for as many variables as possible then IQ can be a not complete shit variable
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I learned about the issues with IQ long before “cancelling” was a thing.
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Ok, but if you’re gonna make a joke like that in a serious thread about actual IQ, you’re probably gonna want to include a little bit more so people are able to pick up what you’re putting down.
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Really? I thought I was being pretty cordial… Oh well.