Tom Walker wrote:
> It's not so much that IQ per se is bogus as that it contains too much
> cultural noise to be a reliable signal of what it purports to measure. What
> is bogus is the use of "average" IQs to compare groups of people because
> what that aggregates is precisely the noise.

of course, but there's also the problem of believing that
"intelligence" (in any sense of that word) can be measured by a
one-dimensional number. See Howard Gardner's or Steven J. Gould's
work.
-- 
Jim Devine / If you're going to support the lesser of two evils, you
should at least know the nature of that evil.
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