Best-selling introductory psychology books give misleading view of intelligence

Re:Best-selling introductory psychology books give misleadin... by ggggtez on Thursday March 08, 2018 @07:51PM (#16549035)

For that line of reasoning to work, you'd have to prove that the IQ test only presents novel challenges unrelated to practice tests. I think that's a much higher bar than you are thinking, and I'd be interested to know how they would prove it.

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Re:Best-selling introductory psychology books give misleadin... by laretluval on Thursday March 08, 2018 @09:13PM (#16549373)

Obviously in the limit every test shares something with some other test. But it's not like it's hard to find cases where practice on one task fails to generalize to another task: in fact it's the norm, and it's exactly this empirically observed lack of generalization that motivated the concept of IQ and g in the first place. For example, see https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27474138

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