Read what Stephen Jay Gould or Nassim Taleb have written about IQ, for example. It's very common blunder among intellectuals who don't understand psychometrics.
If you deny the importance of IQ (general intelligence), it's harder to argue that - T&C - tax forms - loan documents - health insurance policies - etc are (intentionally) too complicated for people of average IQ to understand. IQ-denialism empowers cognitive exploitation.pic.twitter.com/JrYEzo4IdE
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Put a one-sigma accountant and a five-sigma physicist in front of a tax form, and my money is on the accountant.
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But what about a -2Sigma store clerk who cannot afford their own accountant?
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My favourite are the deliberately ambiguous questions which will directly affect the outcome but in unpredictable ways. And you’ll never know if there was a better or more accurate way to fill it in.
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Do you mean questions on IQ tests, or on tax forms?
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I agree but the people you are addressing might still say it's not general intelligence but specific abilities, or that this is a product of environment and education.
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Yes, I agree with Tweetledumb. General intelligence is definitely not the only factor. Possibly not even the most important. Being able to read & familiarity with documents, would be more specific factors.
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I understand them all very well (in Italy, FWIW). The problem is that in most, if not all, contracts, there are punitive clauses or poison pills that would prevent you from signing anything.
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*Taleb intensified*
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