Is someone's IQ a valid measurement of their intelligence...

Is someone's IQ a valid measurement of their intelligence? It seem to be tailored towards people with very specific talents and skill sets imo.

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> It seem to be tailored towards people with very specific talents and skill sets
Which are ?

That's why it's not.

IQ tests are a meme to make lazy people feel good about themselves without actually accomplishing anything worthwhile.

No its not
Because its measured by tests, where only one option is right.
Geniality is not about solving test you can prepare for. Geniality is about (not only) imagining abstract contructs. You cant measure that with a test.

Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.

Nothing can really measure the superiority of your mind. IQ test really can just test one aspect of your mind's ability, it will not be able to test how good are you in math, decision making or anything else that is not tested in this test. Exactly like a math test can't tell if you are good at anything rather than math.
There is no "global" test to really determine how smart are you.

IQ is as pseudoscientific as the MBTI. Commit it to the flames.

I think trying to assign a numerical value to human intelligence is just inherently stupid. I feel like intelligence spectrum that can't really be defined

Of course not. IQ is racist. All people are exactly the same.

Intelligence.

>Is someone's IQ a valid measurement of their intelligence?
Perfect? No. Valid? Yes.
>It seem to be tailored towards people with very specific talents and skill sets imo.
Talents like... intelligence, maybe?

It measures intellect, but it ends up just being a number moderately intelligent NEETs throw around after taking a Facebook quiz. That way, they can feel accomplished without doing anything.

Success is intellect and the ability to delay gratification. Don't fall for the meme.

Is a 40 yard dash time really a valid measurement of athleticism? It seem to be tailored towards people with very specific talents and skill sets imo.

How do you measure intelligence?

>specific talents and skill sets imo.

Like reading and writing?

Why are people so autistic when it comes to measuring intelligence?

It's like they don't want to admit that some people are inherently less able than other people so they can peddle the "le just work hard bro" bullshit

I know, they'd retreat into bootstrap conservatarians than even fess up.
If it was about athleticism no one would doubt the heredity influence yet we have to entertain the delusion for above the neck.

thats what intelligence is, very specific "talents and skills"

if you want an intelligence test based on your ability to masturbate while screaming, go somewhere else for your self-validation

there isnt only one correct answer in all the parts of the test

IQ tests will give an estimate in your current knowledge of various topics that are frequently used to accomplish or used in the proccess of other tasks. As an analogy, IQ tests are 5, 15, and 30 lbs dumbbells. Depending on which you are able to lift will deternine your "IQ" among the population of other said testers. So while it could determine your ability to lift the "30 lbs iq weight" it does not evaluate your POTENTIAL to life a "130 lbs iq weight" in your lifetime or near future. Not does it evaluate your ability to build a exo-skeleton capable of lifting a "3000 lbs iq weight". This would be equivalent to a person convincing another individual to shoot up on adrenalin and other various enhancers and forcing said individual to finish a math problem for you.

IQ tests are a measurement of a scope of topics, but they are not a measure for inteligience.

(You can figure out cheats, shortcuts, and you can always guess on an iq test.)

That's simply because brain is more complicated than everything below. You can easily measure and understand basic forms of athleticism like strength or endurance but can't really measure complicated things like technique.

Taking retarded stances like ITS 100% HEREDITARY is just as retarded when you don't know your shitty precisely enough. And taking le work hard meme is at least a positive motivation regardless of truth.

Not just the 40 yard dash, but the 40 yard dash on a flat artificial track surface with shoes on.
When you have to send someone to deliver a message on a two day voyage through the woods, sending your fastest guy might make sense.

That is basically how IQ gets used.

That is indeed what ASVABs (defacto IQ test) are for to the military which has made value of the practice for a century

Actually, IQ is a bad measure of general intelligence, as the tests are designed in a sexist way, OP.

>Most mental tests are constructed such that items that show a large advantage to one sex are removed, leaving behind a selection of sub-tests that cancel each other out. All popular IQ tests, including the many versions of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scales (WAIS), Raven’s Progressive Matrices (RPM) and the Wonderlic Cognitive Ability Test (WCAT) are ‘sex normalized’ in this manner.

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Wew.

>Is someone's IQ a valid measurement of their intelligence?
no

A serious answer is: "Intelligence is a word in the English language, not a fundamental property of the physical world."

So try over: Why do you care about measuring intelligence?

Do you want to know whether University is a good investment for you? In that case, I can tell you "IQ correlates very well with SAT scores."

Do you want to know whether you should sign up to a trivia contest? In that case, I tell you: "There is not a lot of science being done here, but IQ approximately correlates with memory, so maybe, but I expect familiarity with the culture will be a better predictor."

Lad.

kek

Only loosely.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect

IQ test

If intelligence is not hereditary does that mean we can integrate chimps into society?

Someone great once said
>Your ability to play chess is a direct measure of your ability to play chess.

Same goes for IQ tests. There is an idiot somewhere who spends all of his free time preparing for and taking IQ test, so that he can tell people that he has the highest IQ in the world.

If that does not convince you that there is no correlation between IQ and "intelligence", nothing will.

yes

blacks are dumb

Then you are not measuring what IQ is meant to? If you train for it you obscure the brain processing factors it is meant to gauge. Its like putting the thermometer in your tea.

Not user, doesn't the ability to obscure such factors negate the legitimacy of the IQ test. Being able to train for a test that is meant to measure innate intelligence certainly compromises the validity of said test.

And let's say it is not. Let's say that it measured both fluid and crystallized intelligence. Doesn't that mean that through the process of training one became smarter? Of course training for such a test only means you got better at said test.

And if you don't train at all, is that a valid measurement of intelligence? One can never really separate all the variables that may affect IQ. Consider education or how an individual is raised. Intended or not, a person may have been training for this kind of test their whole life depending on their background.

IQ has a lot of caveats granted but to knee jerk and go its 100% noise and no signal is no less demented than the contrary position. It is imperfect, it will have nonuniform results but the resultant variation is orderly

I'm suprised I haven't seen "g" being mentioned. The idea is that IQ correlates with general intelligence or "g".
I feel that we should have a better definition of intelligence and how the brain works before we can say if IQ is valid.