Tag: IQ

(Revised draft: added comments on sinister country profiling. Also 1) Used the same data as researchers to find that R² for IQ-wealth and IQ-income is effectively 0 in spite of the circularity. 2) Turns out IQ beats random selection in the best of applications by less than 6...

The exploration of intelligence through IQ tests has been a subject of global intrigue and debate. These assessments, designed to gauge cognitive abilities, vary significantly across different cultural landscapes. This variance raises critical questions about the nature of intelligence and the fairn...

Some genes are simple. It’s easy to predict eye color. Some genes are complicated. It’s hard to predict how tall your child will be. That’s because height is controlled by thousands of separate genes, those all add up to make you a little bit shorter or taller. In the last de...

The most well-known methods for IQ testing are standardized tests like the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales and the Wechsler scales (WAIS for adults and WISC for children). These tests assess a range of cognitive abilities, including fluid reasoning, knowledge, quantitative reasoning, visual-spati...