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Re:How to Become a Pure Mathematician (Or Statistician) by lordnacho on Friday September 12, 2025 @06:22PM (#45227422)
But why would you do an IQ test, when you could just do a math test? Surely a math test is a better indicator of math ability than a test that is merely correlated?
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Re:How to Become a Pure Mathematician (Or Statistician) by hiAndrewQuinn on Friday September 12, 2025 @06:27PM (#45227467)
That approach would work too, but generally (not always) math tests require you to already know a fair bit of math to do them. IQ tests can and have been designed with don't even require the use of language, let alone any conceptual machinery that strong.
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