did he 'fail' an IQ test?
taleb sometimes makes some great and interesting arguments, but I can't take rabid monologues like this seriously.
IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle (2019)
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Re: IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle (2019)
#12A fine example of an expert in one field believing he is an expert in every field.
In reading the section describing psychometricians, he clearly is not actually reading what they publish.
Re: IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle (2019)
#13I can't even bring myself to read this. After perusing and seeing it gets so emotional (bringing up eugenics, morality, etc), I have a hard time believing it's going to be objective. "There is no significant statistical association between IQ and hard measures such as wealth." So... you're saying that people with an IQ of 60 are equally wealthy as those with an IQ of 110? I understand getting frustrated about misappl…
I can't even bring myself to read your comment, getting so angry because someone brought up eugenics -> YOU'RE RACIST BITCH
Re: IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle (2019)
#14I can't even bring myself to read this. After perusing and seeing it gets so emotional (bringing up eugenics, morality, etc), I have a hard time believing it's going to be objective. "There is no significant statistical association between IQ and hard measures such as wealth." So... you're saying that people with an IQ of 60 are equally wealthy as those with an IQ of 110? I understand getting frustrated about misappl…
Well I'd say bringing up hard problems like morality and eugenics is part of being objective. It's not like they could be ignored.
Re: IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle (2019)
#15I can't even bring myself to read this. After perusing and seeing it gets so emotional (bringing up eugenics, morality, etc), I have a hard time believing it's going to be objective. "There is no significant statistical association between IQ and hard measures such as wealth." So... you're saying that people with an IQ of 60 are equally wealthy as those with an IQ of 110? I understand getting frustrated about misappl…
IQ is not science.
IQ is probably more well studied than any other phenomenon in the social sciences or psychology.
Also IQ is not science, it is something that is studied scientifically.
Re: IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle (2019)
#16Place some skin in the game and hire a bunch of 87 IQ people as financial advisors.
Re: IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle (2019)
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
IQ is not science.
IQ is probably more well studied than any other phenomenon in the social sciences or psychology. Also IQ is not science, it is something that is studied scientifically.
Re: IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle (2019)
#18"It does correlate to very negative performance (as it was initially designed to detect learning special needs)" It did a crap job detecting learning special needs with my son. Because he has a weird intelligence profile of being above 98% on some tasks and below 10% on other tasks, the IQ test simply wouldn't score him, and put him in the "he's not taking the test correctly" category. Yeah, not at all useful, thanks…
Which ones?
Re: IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle (2019)
#19I can't even bring myself to read this. After perusing and seeing it gets so emotional (bringing up eugenics, morality, etc), I have a hard time believing it's going to be objective. "There is no significant statistical association between IQ and hard measures such as wealth." So... you're saying that people with an IQ of 60 are equally wealthy as those with an IQ of 110? I understand getting frustrated about misappl…
The observation is that above roughly IQ 70 the test is not even correlated with SAT scores. And below 70 one does not need a test to see that.
Re: IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle (2019)
#20"It does correlate to very negative performance (as it was initially designed to detect learning special needs)" It did a crap job detecting learning special needs with my son. Because he has a weird intelligence profile of being above 98% on some tasks and below 10% on other tasks, the IQ test simply wouldn't score him, and put him in the "he's not taking the test correctly" category. Yeah, not at all useful, thanks…
Hey, sorry for the situation with your son and how IQ tests failed us here, but could we stray away from clear anecdotes on HN comments?