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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

We know this, the issue is until a more comprehensive test comes around, the IQ test is the best we have, also measuring general pattern recognition can be pretty useful as a "quick and sweet" measure since pattern recognition is the base for all other forms of intelligence

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Why do we even need such a test? It seems like you shouldn't place people into arbitrary categories. Intelligence can't really be defined. A test that looks for intelligence is always going to be biased and discriminatory.

It reminds me of social scoring and even of ethnic cleansing in the worse case. People shouldn't have there lives defined by a test.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I can see where your coming from but i have to say, intelligence is definitely not arbitrary, it's just very wide and can be difficult to define exactly. Kind of like consciousness, we know it exists but we can't really place a finger on it

Some people are 100% stupider than others and some are definitely smarter than others. I'm sure we can all agree Einstein is smarter than a hair stylist, and while yes thats an extreme example, it's necessary to get the idea across

The real issue of measuring intelligence (in my opinion) is that there's so many different types of intelligence which is why the IQ test is flawed, it boils down hundreds of different spaces into a single number

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I actually disagree with that. Why would Einstein be smarter than a hair stylus?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is stupid. Noting that there is a bell curve of some innate talent we label intelligence is like noting there’s a bell curve on a person’s height.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My point was what makes a person intelligent? Einstein is a particularly interesting example as he failed school. He also had a very bad sense of style and to my knowledge was not good at cutting hair. In that respect, a good hair dresser is far superior. They are way better at being a hair dresser than Einstein.

We all have talents. It just is a matter of finding what we love. Also it helps to we willing to learn as you can be as smart as can be but still be lazy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

The reason for testing is that people on either end of the bell curve need to be educated differently to the people in the middle and to each other