• imogen_underscore [it/its, she/her]@hexbear.net
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    17 hours ago

    IQ is skull measuring nonsense. how good you are at taking a standardised test is in fact not a remotely good “measure of intelligence”. if you care about education you should discard the notion of IQ.

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      57 minutes ago

      You can get better at IQ tests by doing more of them and learning the patterns, right? So it’s basically measuring how au fair you are with logic puzzles rather than anything particularly intrinsic.

    • engelsaxons [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      17 hours ago

      how good you are at taking a standardised test

      Not even that, how good you are at taking a standardised test on a given day. We also know people who are traumatised by poverty or individual adverse life events have lower success rates on these tests, making them even more useless at best and vicious at worst.