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These tests are probably measuring something. But I don’t see how anyone with a high IQ can take IQ test seriously.

I’ve been studying the writings of early artificial intelligence pioneers (Minsky, Simon, Newell, Von Neumann, etc) and to think that we can assign an integer measure to the most complex information processing systems in existence seems like one step above pseudoscience.

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Granted that measure is normalized, and my anecdotal evidence does match the feeling of being several standard deviations from the average person.

Maybe my gripe with IQ is that as a theory, I find it intellectually unsatisfactory. I can accept that being good at solving the puzzles they gave me in tag class correlates with positive life experiences.

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