IQ Tests Validity
Comments debate whether IQ tests accurately measure intelligence or general cognitive ability (g factor), their predictive power for success, cultural biases, legality in hiring, and comparisons across time.
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What is “better measured” with IQ tests?
IQ is a bad measure of the thing you're trying to quantificate here
"The only thing an IQ test is good at is measuring how close the test taker is to thinking the same way the test maker does."
IQ tests measure something, but it sure isn't intelligence it is measuring
It does not have to be IQ test, right?
IQ tests seem to suggest otherwise.
I thought IQ tests were illegal?
Why not just give an actual IQ test?
This is a common belief that used to be true, but no longer is. IQ tests are reasonably good at measuring general intelligence, ie the g factor : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics)
I suspect he is referring to iq tests. They have a pretty high correlation to success and are banned.