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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
IQ tests don't ask questions about certain knowledge, e.g., that iron bed legs are better because rats can't climb them, and so people who know those things are less "intelligent" even if they are no less intelligent.
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Because my kids all have learning disabilities, I know a fair bit (and my wife knows way more) about what a wretched proxy IQ tests are for intelligence, and what their real uses really are (there are ways in which, for example, they can identify processing speed disorders that affect learning style).
But in a broad demographic study, they're also about all we have to use as a proxy for intelligence, so you kind of have to use them and then try to adjust for their failings. Or, you can just say, we don't have a meaningful measure for intelligence so we can't answer the question, which is also ok. My point just is to the extent there are measures they indicate dems are more intelligent.
