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. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
