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IQ != intelligence

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IQ != intelligence

Reading through the comments I feel this needs to be expounded on. IQ is a barely useful metric in predicting achievement or success.

IMO thought structures and habits of thinking can be much more applicable in reality than a high IQ, leading to higher "intelligence" despite low IQ. See: Richard Feynman, idiosyncratic thinking (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr8sVailoLw)

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IQ is a barely useful metric in predicting achievement or success.

This has somehow become the standard wisdom, and it's just wrong. IQ is highly predictive of a wide range of outcomes; see for example https://www.vox.com/2016/5/24/11723182/iq-test-intelligence.

That's just correlation, which could happen even if IQ is really just a function of your socioeconomic environment or other things that are not actual intelligence. Although there is strong evidence that is not the case.

Hey, thanks for the information! May be that I am misinformed, let me find out.

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