There's a new Shalizi/Taleb on the block. Wrote this long anti-IQ piece. It's kinda boring but looks impressive so I am sure will be popular. I assume someone is going to write a rebuttal for the relevant parts, most of it being irrelevant philosophy.https://medium.com/@seanaaron100/intelligence-complexity-and-the-failed-science-of-iq-4fb17ce3f12 …
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The g denial part is pathetic, all tests mesure the same g this isn't a PCA artifact
Havne't you heard? They are all based on correlation! Correlation bad.
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Correlation isn't bad, but there's a real risk of non linearities and/or mirage correlations
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outcome ~ IQ are usually quite linear when checked. This is an old issue. Even when nonlinear, it's almost always monotonic. (Aside from sampling error) http://arthurjensen.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Occupation-and-Income-Related-to-Psychometric-g-2001-by-Helmuth-S%C3%B8rensen-Nyborg-Arthur-Robert-Jensen.pdf …pic.twitter.com/K3vQBrJhcA
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