I genuinely don't understand the point in contention here. I get the positive manifold, which is a thing out there in the world. I get that it is a positive manifold across tests that it might be argued have an ambiguous relationship with what we subjectively call intelligence.
I think the weakness is less in the heritability claim (which I totally accept) and more in the coherence of the thing being inherited. It just doesn't seem that meaningful to me.
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As Shalizi says, intelligence is the measure of how good are you at being a clerk in industrial societies.
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And being good at conjugating verbs isn't that different from being good at differentiating equations isn't that different from solving Raven's progressive matrices.
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