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>>23170878
IQ seems to be pretty similar to other social sciences for being pretty inaccurate. Gary kasporav got a 130 when he took the test. Yet he’s the longest running chess champion ever. If iq were accurate you’d expect hed score well over 160. Some people cope that chess isn’t related that much with g. But then what’s next? Will math and physics also be not related to g? Richard Feynman scored 127 on his test. But then that one guy Chris Langan apparently has the highest iq ever. It seems to me that iq tests are not doing all that much. People who are used to using their minds well can score above average but it doesn’t seem to get at this idea that it is showing how much intellect you posses.

Many say that third world countries in Africa have averages in the 60s. But this is clearly false. People from those countries if raised in a first world country would have dramatically higher scores than the average from their own country.