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Re:The Science of Why We Don’t Believe Science by SiVal on Friday July 19, 2013 @03:56PM (#6072536)
"Outside the ability of science to test"? Nothing has been so thoroughly tested throughout the the world as IQ, and the measurements of climate data don't come close to IQ differences in terms of predictability. Whatever fuzziness there is in IQ measurements pales in comparison to the fuzziness in climate measurement, yet an outfit like Mother Jones would declare the former "unsettled" and the latter fully proven except to wacko right-wing "science denialists".
Re:The Science of Why We Don’t Believe Science by Alex3917 on Friday July 19, 2013 @04:00PM (#6072568)
IQ is not synonymous with intelligence, nor is IQ a measurement -- it's normalized by definition. In fact IQ itself isn't even a 'thing', since there are dozens of different tests.
Re:The Science of Why We Don’t Believe Science by SiVal on Friday July 19, 2013 @04:29PM (#6072769)
And yet there is a high and repeatable correlation among all those tests indicating that they are all proxies for some real "thing". Call it by whatever name you like--g, intelligence, IQ, whatever--but there is a real "thing" that causes these proxy tests to have highly predictable results.