Teenagers are better behaved and less hedonistic (2018)

Re:Teenagers are better behaved and less hedonistic (2018) by sfkdjf9j3j on Sunday April 26, 2020 @05:24PM (#22990385)

IQ testing gets a lot of flak because its usefulness is misunderstood and overstated, and because historically it has been used by adherents of scientific racism.

I get the sense from the comment about BMI and "axe grinding" that you're really trying to make a dig at what conservative leaning people might call "SJWs". If that's the case, you're doing yourself a disservice by letting ideology obscure the very real scientific problems with IQ testing.

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Re:Teenagers are better behaved and less hedonistic (2018) by dodobirdlord on Sunday April 26, 2020 @07:12PM (#22991171)

I don't broadly have beef with "SJWs", though I wouldn't use that term. BMI happens to be an easily recalled second metric that is useful for population statistics even if it's not necessarily always useful for an individual. Without some measurement like IQ we would miss things at the population level like the Flynn effect, or the massive improvements in intelligence brought about by the introduction of iodized salt.

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