“intelligence” is an extremely hard construct to operationalize and IQ is an attempt to measure it that, like all measurements of complex constructs is immensely flawed. i think it’s interesting to think about but obsessing about it is a 100% indicator that you are a freak
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I have one in a field that impresses people. It was mostly just stubbornness that got me through.
They are also an environmental disaster in terms of energy consumption.
If IQ could demonstrate one’s place in the spectrum that too would be useful.
We throw the word genius around like it happens all the time. But I like to think of it as the ability to imagine the previously unimagined.