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#302 – Richard Haier: IQ Tests, Human Intelligence, and Group Differences

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The Dust Bowl Empiricism Method

"I consider myself part psychologist because I love human-robot interaction," he says. "Designing these tests to get at the question is the fascinating part." The test of dust bowl empiricism involves asking a series of questions that make it very difficult for you to figure out what you're supposed to answer. When we talk about the items on an IQ test, many of those items have no face validity - they don't look like they measure anything.

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