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Lets just say some people are smarter than others. Do you agree?
Yes. A composite test could be devised based off of demonstrated success and problem solving skills.
The "smart" people I meet are distributed on a Gaussian normal curve showing they are:
1) financially successful (if they want to be).
2) civil enough to cooperate with
3) healthy
4) low risk taking
5) educated
6) enjoying life
Individual circumstances will cause outliers to these generalizations. No anecdotal stories please.
As for race and IQ (and yes, race is a social construct, but it is prevalent to classify people by race in our society)
My first thought is the question of methodology. In how many languages was the testing performed? How many subjects were tested in what was not their first language? Were considerations taken for those living their daily lives with parents and grandparents speaking a different tongue? Ghettoization was quite common in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries creating insular societies with different sources of information which can affect test performance.
Yes. A composite test could be devised based off of demonstrated success and problem solving skills.
The "smart" people I meet are distributed on a Gaussian normal curve showing they are:
1) financially successful (if they want to be).
2) civil enough to cooperate with
3) healthy
4) low risk taking
5) educated
6) enjoying life
Individual circumstances will cause outliers to these generalizations. No anecdotal stories please.
The best predictor of success in life is high IQ. However, it is not the sole cause of success. The US armed forces have used an intelligence test for decades to separate wheat from chaff.
My first thought is the question of methodology. In how many languages was the testing performed? How many subjects were tested in what was not their first language? Were considerations taken for those living their daily lives with parents and grandparents speaking a different tongue? Ghettoization was quite common in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries creating insular societies with different sources of information which can affect test performance.
Take the Raven test as an example.
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