Srsly Wrong

253 – Why IQ is Bullshit

Apr 1, 2022

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Is There a Standardized Application of IC Testing?

02:42

Ic Tests Are Measuring Something

04:21

I Think Ic Is Just One Particular Permutation

03:50

Introduction

2min

How Many Brain Points Do You Have?

2min

The Ideology of I C

5min

I've Done It. Eureka, Come Here. Come Here

2min

You Don't Want to Sterilize People?

2min

I've Never Taken an IC Test Before. It's Just a Simple Test

3min

I've Never Taken a Test Like That Before, but I'm Not Getting It Right.

3min

How Much Time Do You Have to Study?

5min

Chess Is the Game of Intellectual Champions

2min

10.

Low Brain Point Point

2min

11.

The Relationship Between Tests and Tests

4min

12.

Is There a Single Number?

3min

13.

Eureka, We've Done It, We Found It

2min

14.

The Numbers, the Numbers

2min

15.

Cognac - The Parable of Elis Island

5min

16.

Ic Tests Are Measuring Something

4min

17.

Is There a Single Meaningful Number to Intelligence?

3min

18.

High B Peas

2min

19.

The Utopian Vision of Icutests

3min

20.

How Can We Measure Our Capacity?

4min

21.

Eugenics - Origin of Icu

2min

22.

Is There a Difference Between Races?

2min

23.

Eugenics - A History of the Eugenic Movement

2min

24.

Is There a IC Test for Job Placement?

4min

25.

I Think Ic Is Just One Particular Permutation

4min

26.

Bowling Is a Beautiful Thing

2min

27.

Exactly What I Was Going to Say, Papa. You're the One to Think for Dinner

2min

28.

I Cat, Is It Good for Nothing?

2min

29.

IC Tests

3min

30.

Heritability

5min

31.

Is There a Standardized Application of IC Testing?

3min

32.

Iku Is Bulshit

2min

33.

The Creepy Thing About Science

2min

34.

I'm a Little Embarrassed, but I'll Just Hold It Ot for You.

2min

35.

Are You Saying You Can't Take the Test Again?

2min

36.

I Hes Os Roonext Time On. Seriously, Wrong.

2min

37.

Is There a Better Solution Than Throwing a Quilt in the Dumpster?

2min

IQ demolished. Definitively. Goodbye IQ. You’re not real. Brain numbers are a foolish undertaking, tied to unimaginable suffering and horror. You are not science. Bye bye.

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Links:
Stephen Jay Gould on Intelligence Tests (IQ), the Nature – Nurture Controversy 1995: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wcSSLo9TIs
Study: IQ tests are ‘fundamentally flawed’: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/iq-tests-are-fundamentally-flawed-and-using-them-alone-to-measure-intelligence-is-a-fallacy-study-finds-8425911.html
Radiolabs’ “G” podcast series on Intelligence & IQ: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/projects/radiolab-presents-g
Ted Talk – the dark history of IQ tests: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2bKaw2AJxs
IQ is largely a Pseudoscientific Swindle by Nassim Nicholas Taleb: https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-swindle-f131c101ba39
What does IQ really measure?: https://www.science.org/content/article/what-does-iq-really-measure
“RACE, GENETICS, AND IQ” Richard Nesbitt: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~nisbett/racegen.pdf
Podcast – My Year in Mensa by Jamie Loftus: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/867-my-year-in-mensa-55379945/
Video Essay: Debunking The Bell Curve by Shaun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBc7qBS1Ujo
Measuring intelligence and IQ, and the problems that presents: https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2017/11/16/measuring-intelligence-iq-problems-present/
Extreme heat and reduced cognitive performance in adults in non-air-conditioned buildings: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180711182748.htm
The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen J Gould: ISBN-10: 0393314251
IQ: A Smart History of a Failed Idea by Stephen Murdoch: ISBN-10: 1630268712
The Unfit: A History of a Bad Idea by Elof Axel Carlson: ISBN-10: 0879695870
Racism, not Race by Joseph L. Graves & Alan Goodman: ISBN-10: 0231200668
The Funding of Scientific Racism: Wickliffe Draper and the Pioneer Fund: ISBN-10: 0252074637

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Srsly Wrong

253 – Why IQ is Bullshit

Is There a Standardized Application of IC Testing?

Ic Tests Are Measuring Something

I Think Ic Is Just One Particular Permutation

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