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    4 days ago

    IQ doesn’t measure intelligence

    We don’t even have agreed upon definition for intelligence so that seems like a weird claim to make.

    • The ability to acquire, understand, and use knowledge.
    • the ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations
    • the ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one’s environment or to think abstractly as measured by objective criteria (such as tests)
    • the act of understanding
    • the ability to learn, understand, and make judgments or have opinions that are based on reason
    • It can be described as the ability to perceive or infer information; and to retain it as knowledge to be applied to adaptive behaviors within an environment or context.
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      2 days ago

      The Intelligence Quotient, a way of measuring your score on a test based on score percentile among the population.

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        2 days ago

        That doesn’t answer the question “what is intelligence” no more than a thermometer explains what is heat energy.

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          2 days ago

          But do our tests measuring IQ adequately measure

          The ability to acquire, understand, and use knowledge.

          the ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations

          The ability to learn, understand, and make judgments or have opinions that are based on reason

          ?