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gadders • today at 3:25 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

>>@avazhi Intelligence is a highly multidimensional thing. IQ as a general measure of intelligence is an antiquated concept.

Yeah, this isn't remotely true. It's probably the most reliable trait in all of behavioural science.


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tombert • today at 3:40 PM

Are you sure? It always seemed pretty reductive to me to try and take something as complicated as intelligence and reduce it down to a single-dimensional number. Most people consider me "smart", but that's only because I'm pretty good at math. I'm pretty much an idiot at anything else. Even the SAT breaks things down into different categories.

Also, given the fact that you can study for IQ tests, I don't really think I agree at all that it's some immutable and objective fact of behavioral science.

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