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RE: A Rational Approach To Racism
You lost me on your first point. High IQ is associated with low aggressiveness and vice versa.
IQ is the most accurate psychoanalytic model, free of cultural limitations, that we have in our hands. It DOES measure intelligence, quite efficiently. If we deny that, we should also deny the progress of the last 100 years in statistics.
Just because smart people can oversee the consequences of their actions better and will restrain themselves more often when they are angry, does not mean they are less aggressive, but only that they show less aggressive behaviour.
IQ is not a model.
IQ may be free of cultural bias, IQ tests aren't.
The only thing you can be sure of is that IQ tests are quite good at measuring how well you will do on other IQ tests. No amount of advance in statistical methodology can prove that IQ is a measurement for intelligence.
Whether IQ tests measure intelligence or not is a matter of definition, and you would need an intelligence test other than an IQ test to see if they measure the same thing.
Statistics can't prove or validate models anyway, only disprove them with a certain likelyhood, because no model can ever be proven to be "the one". Thus Popper. The advancement of statistical methods can't help here.
IQ is a measurment of the g-factor (whatever that means) and said measurment has a correlation with a plethora of things, from increased likelyhood to have academic success to living longer (ncbi is your friend).
I don't think you understand statistics.
@redbeardguy
I debunked I.Q and E.Q here
https://steemit.com/intelligence/@kyriacos/iq-and-eq-cannot-measure-intelligence
Far away from an accurate model.
EQ is indeed poppsychology.
IQ is a measurment of the g-factor. If you dismiss IQ, dismiss EVERYTHING psychology and psychometry has produced.
I've skimmed through the post and I must say you didn't debunk IQ. You just reframed it as something that is NOT and then you refuted the strawman. IQ tests measure your abillity to comprehend PATTERNS. That's all. There's nothing cultural about that.
I do dismiss psychology as bullshit science. And not it is not just me about the I.Q studies.
https://io9.gizmodo.com/5959058/further-evidence-that-iq-does-not-measure-intelligence
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iq-scores-not-accurate-marker-of-intelligence-study-shows/
Arbitrarily assigning "asbstraction" as cultural doesn't do much to over 1000 of citations over the last 100 years about the g-factor.
To get this over with: IQ measure the g-factor. Fuck intelligence, fuck being smart and every other buzzword. G FACTOR.
Said g-factor is correlated with a plethora of abillities and real world consequences. And that correlation is more than enough to imply there's predictability.