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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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?
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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Ok good to know. Is there any reasearch regarding the variance? Meaning by this, are the IQ results consistent for an individual taking repeated tests over the years?https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1084034403607760897?s=21 …
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Not only individual... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect …
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