I am so tired of arguments like this about where IQ or g (the "general factor of intelligence") actually "exist"https://twitter.com/Malnormalulo/status/1211029356899905536?s=19 …
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I mean look can you imagine the idea of a number called your AQ or athletic quotient that measures "general athletic ability"? Of course You can even measure it by making everyone compete in a decathlon, and do so more "objectively" than an IQ test
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Does that mean there's one specific magical essential substance in the body, "athleticism", that goes up and down and takes every single one of your athletic stats with it when it does (max bench press, time to run a mile, free throw average) Of course not
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*Generally speaking*, yeah, most ordinary people have all their fitness scores correlated If you pull two random people off the street, the one person who can bench press more is also likely to run a mile faster But that's not how the body works, that's how society works
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It’s worse for IQ, because what we consider smartness has a bunch of different facets to it, some of which seem to correlate inversely. The people I know who are best at math tend to be pretty bad at, say, noticing things in their immediate surroundings.
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Yeah and we know that at actual top tier levels of competition, different measures of athleticism do directly conflict You CAN'T be the world's weightlifting champion and the world's sprinting champion at the same time Putting on bulk for one harms you for the other
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Again, it is true that away from the top tiers, among regular people, a person who can lift more weight than average can probably run faster than average because they're just in better shape in general But, again, that's more to do with how society works
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Football players can bench more and run faster than me because... they're athletes and I'm not
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People who argue for a g-factor in intelligence point out students who are A students across the board and students who are C students across the board are both more common than people who have just one good or one bad subject But that's really about how school works
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Yeah, learning to read early, having good study habits, having access to good libraries — those will help across the board. And they're all cultural or class-based.
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