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IQ Ratings Are Fake Science

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First, here though are a few sources demonstrating how racist arguments based on IQ are stupid.

[url]http://www.politico.com/story/2013/08/jason-richwine-race-iq-genetics-095765[/url]

[url]https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/5/18/15655638/charles-murray-race-iq-sam-harris-science-free-speech[/url]


Second, anyone who seriously believes in "IQ" ratings has already proven themselves so ignorant they probably shouldn't be commenting on anything.


[QUOTE]The idea that intelligence can be measured by IQ tests alone is a fallacy according to the largest single study into human cognition which found that it comprises of at least three distinct mental traits.

IQ tests have been used for decades to assess intelligence but they are fundamentally flawed because they do not take into account the complex nature of the human intellect and its different components, the study found. ...

“The results disprove once and for all the idea that a single measure of intelligence, such as IQ, is enough to capture all of the differences in cognitive ability that we see between people,” said Roger Highfield, director of external affairs at the Science Museum in London.

“Instead, several different circuits contribute to intelligence, each with its own unique capacity. A person may well be good in one of these areas, but they are just as likely to be bad in the other two,” said Dr Highfield, a co-author of the study published in the journal Neuron.

[url]http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/iq-tests-are-fundamentally-flawed-and-using-them-alone-to-measure-intelligence-is-a-fallacy-study-8425911.html[/url]

[url]https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/12/121219133334.htm[/url][/QUOTE]


Indeed, even the idea of an underlying "intelligence" that is a singular thing that can be measured is false.

[QUOTE]Scores on cognitive tasks used in intelligence tests correlate positively with each other, that is, they display a positive manifold of correlations. The positive manifold is often explained by positing a dominant latent variable, the g factor, associated with a single quantitative cognitive or biological process or capacity. In this article, a new explanation of the positive manifold based on a dynamical model is proposed, in which reciprocal causation or mutualism plays a central role. It is shown that the positive manifold emerges purely by positive beneficial interactions between cognitive processes during development. A single underlying g factor plays no role in the model. The model offers explanations of important findings in intelligence research, such as the hierarchical factor structure of intelligence, the low predictability of intelligence from early childhood performance, the integration/differentiation effect, the increase in heritability of g, and the Jensen effect, and is consistent with current explanations of the Flynn effect.

[url]http://hvandermaas.socsci.uva.nl/Homepage_Han_van_der_Maas/Intelligence_files/psyrev4.pdf[/url][/QUOTE]

Beyond the fact that IQ ratings are a proven failed idea that relate in no way to how the brain actually works, the IQ test itself is so flawed that any numbers that come from it mean nothing. [url]https://www.elephantjournal.com/2015/03/the-iq-is-meaningless/[/url]

Further so-called IQ tests fail spectacularly to take into account the entire spectrum of multiple intelligences. IQ tests focus on one or two forms of intelligence alone, ignoring the multiple other interactions and failing to measure teh complex ways human intelligences interact and formulate. .
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So, yes, deciding your child's medical treatment based on race is stupid, along with believing in race based causes for "intelligence" in the first place.[/QUOTE]

Updated 06-23-2017 at 01:26 PM by PierzStyx

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