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Re:Rural purge by zionic on Monday May 03, 2021 @11:16AM (#27026165)
Is this true? Plenty of IQ tests are extremely simple pattern recognition. The science of measuring human cognitive performance is plagued by cultural taboos more so than process issues.
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Re:Rural purge by lostcolony on Monday May 03, 2021 @12:10PM (#27026878)
Sort of; even the non-verbal portions have different means across cultures, AND the neuropsychological abilities that predicted higher scores differed across cultures as well.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24055883/

So what exactly an IQ test is measuring differs between cultures (though it certainly is measuring -something- since there are other correlations), since even the separately identifiable and measurable abilities that lead to someone doing well on an IQ test differ across cultures.

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