no they're not
IQ tests are the most reliable and valid measures we have in the social sciences.
Podcast clip with @sbkaufman.
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Oh? Then what is the actual most reliable and valid measure method in social science?
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1) The problem I have with them is that I don’t chart particularly high on them yet I don’t really find myself to be a dull person. In the right circumstances I often find myself ahead of the pack in say something like a social setting. I can make people laugh and be engaging.
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2) To me that seems like it requires a certain measure of intelligence to be able to do. But it’s not clear to me that this specific kind of intelligence is taken into account by something like an IQ test. What does it say for people that do great in a room but bad on paper?
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So many scientists reject IQ tests as being a good measure of intelligence that it makes it hard to know if that statement is factual.
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I think he puts it well, it’s not super good, but it’s easily the best we have, by far
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That is a lot like a navigator boasting that a compass that shows correctly only half of the cardinal points is his "best tool": it might be literally true, but I wouldn't boast about it...
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That IQ is the "most reliable" says quite something about the overall reliability of "social sciences", then :)https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-swindle-f131c101ba39 …
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