I agree. I don't see it as a "but" to what I wrote, just a different way of
saying it. IQ measures something and that something has some relationship
to intelligence. It is just incorrect to say that what it measures IS
intelligence and nothing but.

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Jim Devine <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
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