>>10102083
>Makes me think that IQ, like everything in psychology, is fucking pseudoscience.
It isn't. Denying that blacks have a lower IQ IS PSEUDOSCIENCE. Just because you believe in this unfalsifaible, pseudoscientific belief that "intelligence" is somehow this unmeasurable, subjective, magical thing that isn't a byproduct of biological matter does not make IQ pseudoscience. You got that?
>Psychology doesn't even have a definition of Intelligence
Except they do, you fucking retard. One of the things that makes IQ a valid scientific construct, is the fact that psychometrics DELIBERATELY choose to construct a specific definition of "intelligence" because they know the word means too many different things to too many people, so they made sure to construct a specific definition of intelligence that makes sense in the context of psychometrics, so we can actually know what IQ is measuring.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics)
>It is a variable that summarizes positive correlations among different cognitive tasks, reflecting the fact that an individual's performance on one type of cognitive task tends to be comparable to that person's performance on other kinds of cognitive tasks. The g factor typically accounts for 40 to 50 percent of the between-individual performance differences on a given cognitive test, and composite scores ("IQ scores") based on many tests are frequently regarded as estimates of individuals' standing on the g factor.[1] The terms IQ, general intelligence, general cognitive ability, general mental ability, or simply intelligence are often used interchangeably to refer to this common core shared by cognitive tests.[2] The g factor targets a particular measure of general intelligence.
This is why IQ tests are valid, because IQ is just a composite score of many cognitive tests which have all been proven to be "g-loaded". That's what intelligence means. Your ability on cognitive tests outside the scope of education.