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Re:IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle (2019) by JamesBarney on Thursday May 07, 2020 @11:44AM (#23104306)
The first real IQ test (the Binet iq test) was created to help identify special ed kids so they could receive special tutoring.

The question about IQ is does it measure anything? Is it predictive? And can that be useful? And the answer all three of those questions is obviously yes.

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Re:IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle (2019) by foolrush on Thursday May 07, 2020 @02:08PM (#23106119)
And if you actually read Binet, you’d know that he explicitly warned against its usage beyond what he designed it for.
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