Okay, well, Scott clearly thinks whether high-IQ or low-IQ people are the ones doing important jobs is *very* important and has talked about this several times
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Testing and teaching are not the same. IQ tests are deeply eugenicist and racist at their core and by design.
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When I was at high school, it was already quite obvious to me that a large percentage of the exam grades were determined by generic abilities.
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The basic idea is that companies want certain native abilities. In the past, you could only graduate high school with those abilities, so lots of jobs merely required high school. Then people thought that they could increase employability by making high school easier, so... 1/3
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more people graduate and have the piece of paper that employers demand. However, employers didn't want the paper, but the abilities. So they responded by demanding a tougher level of education. The result ever increasing spending on education, even though many would be... 2/3
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