what was that great article being like "no iq is a good/predictive measure actually"? I forget where I found it
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It’s a predictive measure of how insufferable someone is to have a conversation with
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's book review is what comes to mind, regarding a book on two different (unintentional) experiments the military ran (gwern.net/reviews/McNama)
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Stuart Ritchie's book on intelligence is only a few bucks, only a few hours, and gives a great overview of intelligence research.
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Next time add an IQ test to your dating survey. We need to find correlations between IQ and other random characteristics.
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I've been searching for the same!
I don't have it but Taleb wrote a piece I found very persuasive going through the math very carefully: medium.com/incerto/iq-is-
I would love to see a similarly rigorous approach regarding these issues
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It's certainly a good metric for the things it purports to measure. People who admire it or despise it both tend to allow it to prove too much. Out of many relevant cognitive skills, it tests the ten that predict success under a myopic economic system.
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The rule of thumb I remember is that it Can pretty easily predict likelihood of success in high school and college education, but falls apart once you get to numbers higher than “yeah, will probs earn a Bachelor’s” at which point Zip Code becomes more predictive.
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