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253 – Why IQ is Bullshit

Srsly Wrong

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Heritability

i feel like we've talked a lot about just tearing apart ic tests. And i wanted to talk briefly about herritability, because it's one of gould's four main arguments. It really depends on how much influence the environment is having. There's never any iron clad number of its this % genetics, this % environment. Intelligence is extremely complicated, varied within it hard to pin down and define. We don't rank computers with a computer quotiant. You can't even compare data within the single test to itself. So Icu literally rob us of understanding how understanding works by simplifying what it is that makes us intelligent.

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