Nassim Taleb has been criticizing IQ tests lately. In this nice short blog, @JamesPsychol shows that everything Taleb claims is either incoherent, or factually wrong, or pointlessly ad hominem, or already addressed by psychometricians decades ago.http://www.unz.com/jthompson/swanning-about-fooled-by-algebra/ …
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Its useful to Goldman Sachs (Corporate selection process); It's useless at measuring comedic skills to pick up girls. Its useful to College entrance exams, its useless for creating a profitable business. Life is multidimensional.
Gil Greengross and I published a paper showing that IQ is actually a pretty good predictor of sense of humor for attracting sexual partners. Check out the research on IQ and humor before making such claims.
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Did a G Scholar Search. 400 People. Correlation is 0.30 for Humor Ability. Is that Humor Production? Seems underresearched.
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"Who Finds Bill Gates Sexy? Creative Mate Preferences as a Function of Cognitive Ability, Personality, and Creative Achievement" - Seems (g) is very low correlation. divergent thinking maybe? We are getting into subgroups.
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