That's hilarious. You're literally the first person ever to call me an SJW.
Dismissive hostility towards IQ tests has been the key strategy for elites to preserve their undeserved privilege through educational credentialism. Think about it for a minute and you'll realize it's true.https://quillette.com/2018/05/30/silence-around-test-scores-serves-privileged/ …
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Dismissing IQ is also a virtue-signaling strategy. They claim they got where they are through hard work, not IQ, and others didn't make it because they didn't work hard enough.
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I don't think anyone is dismissing IQ though. Some (incl me) genuinely question the statistical and mathematical rigor of the tests used by social scientists and biologists. Many social scientists and biologists don't fully grasp implicit assumptions used in their models.
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Yes. I grew up in an affluent town where families with means spent absurd amounts of money on private tutors. You get a massive leg up on the likes of the SAT if you have the money for it.
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Dismissive hostility towards IQ could be a way to protect a paradigm of equality. Most are attracted by forms of social justice, thinking that everybody is born equal and that only work and good will make a difference is comfortable. Just my opinion.
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IQ tests are are of only marginal value. I've known people who are brilliant at such things, and have great memories, etc, but are still as thick as sh*t. At best, test scores and intelligence broadly correlate, but there are many outliers.
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There's technical intelligence that matters in fields of science & mathematics then there's creative genius & a genius that does not conform to set values, laws, or rules. The latter of which is what makes new discoveries possible. Not all knowledge that is worthwhile requires -
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