Message from @Polekov
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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
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
yes
well it is in some ways exactly what you say it isn't
it's made up of several different factors, such as linguistic ability, spatial reasoning ability
and they're very highly correlated
linguistic ability
can you specify