Proponent of using IQ tests to screen immigrants named to senior NIST post
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" The CRS is a points-based system that we use to assess and score your profile and rank it in the Express Entry pool. It’s used to assess your:
* skills
* education
* language ability
* work experience
* other factors. [Not psychology-related] "
Richwine's proposal is specifically intended to displace the privilege-bias baked into measures of educational attainment.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_3FlLndbex3NnNDVXZxUWp0YXc...
That's what I wrote.
"The heritability of intelligence increases from about 20% in infancy to perhaps 80% in later adulthood."
IQ screening is stupid as a screening process for the “best”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_huL5ynaI8Y The best of the best of the best, Sir!
Do you have a metric you think is better than IQ?
> As a political appointee, Richwine is required to submit his resignation to President-elect Joe Biden, a letter the new administration would presumably be happy to accept. One political observer speculated that the lame-duck appointment was based on the assumption President Donald Trump would win the 3 November election and Richwine would then continue to serve during a second Trump term.
If he is required to resign and will not be a person in a senior NIST post, his posting is nothing to care about at this stage.
From a broader point of view, IQ is a bad measure to select immigrants. IQ Tests might be a good measure (debatable) for academic intelligence but for an immigration system, unless the US only wants academic geniuses, it seems like a bad idea. More broader sense of intelligence i.e. social intelligence, creativity etc are not something that shows up well in these tests.
USA does not have high skilled immigrant friendly policies at all. Out of roughly 500k green cards, only 15k are for high skilled immigration. Most (450k) are for family immigration, 50k for diversity visas (random lotteries for citizens of non-big countries), and 8k investor visas (visas for sale basically).
It's going to take a solid four years just to begin to undo all the damage this administration has caused.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/04/dina-nayeri-un...
One quote: > Civilised people don’t ask for resumes when answering calls from the edge of a grave. It shouldn’t matter what I did after I cleaned myself off and threw away the last of my asylum-seeking clothes. My accomplishments should belong only to me. There should be no question of earning my place, of showing that I was a good bet. My family and I were once humans in danger, and we knocked on the doors of every embassy we came across: the UK, America, Australia, Italy. America answered and so, decades later, I still feel a need to bow down to airport immigration officers simply for saying “Welcome home”.
> But what America did was a basic human obligation. It is the obligation of every person born in a safer room to open the door when someone in danger knocks. It is your duty to answer us, even if we don’t give you sugary success stories. Even if we remain a bunch of ordinary Iranians, sometimes bitter or confused. Even if the country gets overcrowded and you have to give up your luxuries, and we set up ugly little lives around the corner, marring your view. If we need a lot of help and local services, if your taxes rise and your street begins to look and feel strange and everything smells like turmeric and tamarind paste, and your favourite shop is replaced by a halal butcher, your schoolyard chatter becoming ching-chongese and phlegmy “kh”s and “gh”s, and even if, after all that, we don’t spend the rest of our days in grateful ecstasy, atoning for our need.
Your sentence can be translated to "It is not my job to rescue other people.".
I suppose the "must" in my 1st paragraph isn't really a must, but how does one call himself human if someone is dying and one thinks "Whatever, not my job...".
Taleb on that matter https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-...
I just hear a lot of IQ fanatics calling he is wrong, yet haven’t seen anything that takes his argument apart.
Also seeing the history of IQ, I don’t trust much in these tests
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/g-mis...
I mean if we don’t know what we are measuring, how can we be sure we are measuring it. Do you have a definition for intelligence?
Anyways, the point of skilled immigration is not to only favor the rich or the only favor the poor. The point is to get above average people with clear proof of success in academia or professionally.
Our refugee system is for those who need sanctuary.
Our diversity lottery system was for increasing diversity in our population.
Each path is for different things, but we don’t have a IQ Visa.
Though I suppose a group tasked with improving science and technology in the US would be all about more smart people coming to the country.