• Feathercrown@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    IQ correlates with a good number of things though. It’a not perfect but it’s not meaningless either.

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      8 months ago

      And global warming correlates with the decline in piracy rates. IQ is a garbage statistic invented by early 20th century eugenicists to prove that white people were the best.

      You can’t boil down the nuance of the most complex object in the known universe to a single number.

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        8 months ago

        Not perfectly you can’t. But similarly to how people’s SAT scores predict their future success, IQ tests in aggregate do have predictive power.