My challenge to folks who are skeptical about IQ tests such as the Stanford-Binet or WAIS-R: Develop your own measure of general cognitive ability and show that it has higher reliability & validity in predicting real-world success. I'll wait.
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IQ tests are one of the best maps available for predicting outcomes, across thousands of studies. How is this quote at all relevant? Just because Taleb, who doesn't understand this field at all, claims it is?
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Also, if you have read Thomas Kuhn, Pf. Miller, you will certainly know that science does not advance by ‘consensus’ or by that many thousands of papers. One Twitter thread, if right, may undo a thousand papers. Isn’t it?
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I follow Lakatos not Kuhn, in my philosophy of science. In either case, a Twitter thread that shows total ignorance of a scientific field it purports to criticize is worth far less than nothing.
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Just wondering, isn’t it possible for both of you to be right? Can’t you be right about tests we have that are the best now while still allowing for the possibility that a better test is both attainable and inevitable? So why deny the possibility?
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