I think there is an argument to be made that being totally removed from modern society with no exposure to spatial tarks might make you more likely to perform poorly on some IQ tasks

Yeah : >

cuz IQ isn't "natural brainpower"

well yeah, IQ is at most 80% genetic. probably 60%

it is though

IQ is a proxy for general intelligence

is that why it's considered obsolete?

IQ is a very specific type of intelligence

there are no theoretical physicists that score an IQ of 80

literaly 0

yeah because only theoretical physicists are the only smart people

grit and determination and hard work decide how successful you are, but when it comes to theoretical physics, you need an IQ of 160 to get in the door

if you're not an engineer or a mathemetician, you are retarded

you cuold give me 1000 years and I would never produce valuable work in theoretical physics

I'm just not smart enough

again

but I am an effective engineer

you need a specific type of intelligence

but also only average

intelligence isn't a monolith

there are WAY smarter people than me in my field

and they completey eclipse me effortlessly

It requires different intelligences to be an engineer, scientist, businessman, etc.

Intelligence isn't just 1 thing

the science doesn't su pport that. while people have stronger and weaker areas, almost nobody is say an 80 linguistically and 160 mathematically

they might be 160 mathematically and only 140 linguistically

what

there isn't different types of IQ

the stereotype of "physicist who can't spell" isn't really true

i never said it is

some people are smarter than others, objectively

there are different components that make up an IQ test, have you ever done one?

But again, you're treating intelligence as if it's one thing

"how good you are at memorizing equations"

or "calculating big numbers"

that's not what IQ trests at all

when that's not the case

but it's a proxy for that

have you ever sat an IQ test?

you mean take one?

no i haven't