I Don't Buy Into IQ Tests

IQ is a silly way of talking about people, reducing people to a number. I think it's immoral besides everything else. They can't be creative in the way that we can. We're generating explanations constantly. You can turn this creative capacity of yours onto anything. That's what intelligence is. There's not a grayscale of it. Either you can do it or you can't. Some people come up with better explanations than others. It depends upon the particular area they're interested in. But as a general measure, you either are able to do that thing or you can’t do that thing. This whole idea that IQ tests are in some way useful in trying to