17 year olds in tribal South Sudan who score badly on Ravens IQ test probably won't be good computer programmers when they are 27. But they might have children who grow up in a more digital culture and thus score better on Ravens and perform better in IQ-demanding jobs.https://twitter.com/charlesmurray/status/970994505104134144 …
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E.g., it's not a coincidence that man who introduced IQ tests to USA, Louis Terman with his 1916 Stanford-Binet test, was also father of Stanford dean Fred Terman, who is the best candidate for Father of Silicon Valley (along with Fred's pal Shockley). The Termans saw the future
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The Raven is the most enculturated test of all.
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when told that low black IQ scores could be ascribed to the fact that whites wrote the tests someone impertinently asked how they did on the IQ tests that blacks wrote
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So you don't grasp the thesis? IQ tests don't test 'intelligence' (whatever that is). Read this and get back to me. Pdf available.https://www.scribd.com/mobile/document/250660667/Richardson-2002-What-Iq-Tests-Test …
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