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Peter Todd · 48w
IQ correlates quite well to overall life success. Obviously, that correlation won't be as good if the tests become a target that people intensively practice for. But that's true of any measure. IQ be...
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They're not worthless but I guess it depends on what you're rmtrying to measure. Treating the result as a measure of innate ability that can't change is wrong I think.

A lot of it is a function of how much time a person has been trained in certain kind of abstract reasoning, which for the majority is a proxy for how much (not completely dysfunctional) education have you received.

(Not talking about super high IQ scores, just 'this person is normally intelligent' scores)
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Peter Todd · 48w
People who tolerate being trained in abstract reasoning are the people with high IQ... No amount of training is going to make dumb people understand abstract thinking. People have different intellectual capacities. That's just the ugly reality.