Things I hadn't remembered as Wrong Books—Infinite Jest! The best Wrong Book of the 1990s. Yes, Bronze Age Pervert (crucial to understanding current fascist moment).
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A great example of how one Wrong Book leads to Another. Early page from Bostrom, _Superintelligence_ (also helpful to see how people who love IQ love it because of the high end—they’re not exactly interested in developmental disabilities.)pic.twitter.com/oN1kY2R3S2
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The standard line on IQ is that multiple intelligences don't exist—they all load on g-factor, and what replicates in any test is the fraction that does. The Williams joke (attached) drives them nuts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Intelligence_Test_of_Cultural_Homogeneity …
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Howard Gardener's multiple intelligences theory is a lovely one (and HG himself an incredibly lovely man, as you might expect)—but it doesn't work. You can see some more of the debate in the response to Cosma Shalizi.https://humanvarieties.org/2013/04/03/is-psychometric-g-a-myth/ …
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In any case, here's my question, which I guess is the theodicy for IQ. It's clear to me (and to you?) that Charlie Mingus is more intelligent (in some thick sense) than the average college professor.
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The theodicy is: 1. g-factor "really measures" intelligence beyond standard mental deficits (i.e., over ~100, etc). 2. there is no multiplicity to intelligence. 3. Charlie Mingus is smarter than your average college professor.
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Because I can't imagine an IQ test that would load just as well on g-factor and where Mingus would outscore YACP, one of these three things has to give.
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BTW, what would Charlie Mingus sound like if he also scored really high on an IQ test? I have the answer for you! It's Anthony Braxton.https://music.apple.com/us/album/new-york-fall-1974/1266099068 …
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Great thread! Yet IQ is almost invariably a bad topic today to discuss in this context, because too much of the debate is tainted by ideology (including Taleb, I suppose). It's similarly tempting to use Rippon's Gendered Brain, but again ideology gets you into a quagmire.
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Btw, my favorite wrong book is Illig's Wer hat an der Uhr gedreht (which proves convincingly that Charlemagne never lived and most of the middle ages are a dating error; sadly not available in English). Second favorite may be Gödel Escher Bach :)
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