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Re:'Cancel Culture' Comes to Science? by alach11 on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @02:42PM (#22057690)
> [IQ] rigorously shows how well you will do on IQ tests. That's a real useful metric, now isn't it?

Surely IQ is measuring something useful if it correlates so well with things like job performance, school performance, income, and crime? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient#Social_c...

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Re:'Cancel Culture' Comes to Science? by ianleeclark on Thursday January 16, 2020 @01:56AM (#22062222)
> Surely IQ is measuring something useful if it correlates so well with things like job performance, school performance, income, and crime?

It might be just correlating to zip code. We know poorer neighborhoods in the US have vastly higher rates of lead which has negative effects against IQ and violence. I've seen far more evidence against the concept of a general intelligence than for.

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