Of course I demand rigor in a subfield that exists almost entirely to inform policies like segregation, eugenics, welfare, education, etc, and I find studies based on IQ tests and the g factor to be very much inadequate at being socially relevant.
If you think that IQ studies are inadequate, don’t even look at other fields that study humans (aside maybe from double blind trials in medicine), you are going to have a heart attack.
By your standards we need to ignore 90% of academia and solely rely on physics research to guide our policy.
Only in young children. The correlation vanishes as the children age. You were wise to delete this remark from your comment.
> Don't think I'm not aware of the history and research of this area.
Heh.
First you try to insinuate that IQ is not related to intelligence and even if it were intelligence has not practical application in the "real world".
Your first point was disputed by the comments related to how rigorously this subject is studied and documented, due to it being a third-rail area of academia.
I am going to dispute your second point myself. That rigorous study and documentation associates IQ with intelligence and intelligence with 'g' which, although not precisely defined, is associated with (at least) higher problem-solving ability.
So now your argument reduces to "higher problem-solving ability has no practical application in the 'real world'".
And so I will just dispute that statement out of hand because problem-solving ability is what has allowed humans to become the dominant animal on Earth.