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RE: An introduction to Steemit, communism, and the big picture.....#1
Why so?
There is no other empirical test that is as accurate.
It may not be perfect but when you have a nail to knock in, and all you have is rock, it becomes the best hammer available...
Mainly because the test is statistically flawed.
Taleb wrote a rather harsh critical article on this topic: https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-swindle-f131c101ba39
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/iq-tests-are-fundamentally-flawed-and-using-them-alone-to-measure-intelligence-is-a-fallacy-study-8425911.html
Nonetheless, I think there are some realities in this world which can be explained by the IQ values, e.g. wealth differences within countries and between different countries.
A postmodernist word salad, imo.
Here is a good rebuttal of his dodgy logic.
(and there is some very dodgy logic...)
Thanks for this video. I will watch it this weekend.