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Re:IQ Test Made by Mensa Norway by version_five on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @02:14PM (#31251557)
I don't mind research or clubs. If people want to have their own little puzzle club or whatever, that's entirely their right. And research into human intelligence is interesting wherever it goes.

What I'm skeptical of is applying stereotyping - and that's what this is, it's s predictive model that's based on averages, not the individual - to any kind of real decision that's any more weighty that letting you into a club. Like education decisions for example.

Re:IQ Test Made by Mensa Norway by PKop on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @03:27PM (#31252430)
Ok, but individuals can all take these and other tests no? It is not only stereotyped assumptions around group averages applied to individuals.

It is also aversion or even policy regulation against even giving tests and acting on the results towards individuals, as this entails inevitable discrimination when the natural and unavoidable hierarchy of human abilities is observed.