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253 – Why IQ is Bullshit

Srsly Wrong

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Ic Tests Are Measuring Something

There's just differences in ways people are able to understand things and how they best get to the end point of understanding things. I agree that ic tests are measuring something, maybe it's just how good you do it. But i think any individual acutest can measure something, but the answer to what it measured will be different each time. It becomes really dangerous to treat dissimilar testing contexts and dissimilar tests is all measuring the same continuum. The ranking system itself fundamentally dove tails with an ideology of domination and hierarchical modes of thought. We now go to an alternate universe where stephen j. Gould is wrong, where it's both possible to meaningfully find a single number to intelligence and

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