| sebastian_dangerfield |
01-02-2020 03:28 PM |
Re: Doesn’t Matter Who Wins the K Race; We’re All the Same
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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
(Post 526782)
Maybe the big idea in that book, which is great, is that "intelligence" is not a single thing susceptible to measurement with a single metric, and that when scientists purport to measure "intelligence" they are measuring some subset of it that they particularly value for cultural reasons.
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Agreed. That's the 800 lb gorilla in this conversation. Bunch of geeks come up with a test they say measures objective intelligence. But who selects the measurements that make up this objective assessment? That same star chamber of geeks.
Who selects the Nobel winner? How objective are their criteria?
I can look at the B student with street smarts and the A student without them and tell you the latter is technically probably smarter. But I can also tell you the former is probably going to do a hell of a lot better in life. So what measure should we use? Who can think best in the abstract? (As this is a metric measuring an ability of dubious value relative to many others needed to succeed, might it be inherently flawed?) Or instead, who has the mix of qualities that renders her most likely to succeed in her endeavors and able to undertake the broadest number of endeavors? |
