/lit/ - Literature

>>7071258
Yes, intelligence is partially defined by scarcity. When something is difficult, people will pay more money for the ones who can do it. It's not like scientists invented supply and demand. IQ and g are just shorthand for part of what is being demanded in our labor market. Being shorthand, we have to pay close attention to correlation between psychometric and real world outcomes. I would argue that the correlation has borne out the validity of some if these metrics as a shorthand for potential value and that large differences in metrics between large enough populations can have a hand in different outcomes for those populations.

>it is impossible to talk about race and intelligence without assuming most if this stuff anyway
As I said above, it's not just an assumption or a projection, it's a correlative measure developed over time.