As someone who was very good at standardized tests growing up I think they are a terrible measurement of anything other than whether you are good at the test. Certainly have nothing to do with human worth, character or virtue.
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I've worked in IQ research for 20 years, and no serious researcher would claim these tests measure character or virtue -- they weren't designed to. But they are good predictors of learning ability, job performance, career success, etc. See the short book by
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Statistical outliers exist when correlations are less than 1.0?
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Classic
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And that's how we know you actually do work in the field of IQ research
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Not necessarily an outlier though (but of course could be).
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Boom roasted
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not really. Unless a test predicts what happens to every single one of millions of people who take it it is invalid?
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Stats burn
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