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IQ was invented by eugenicists.

11 posted on 09/19/2015 12:20:04 PM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)

Are you saying it’s not a valid measurement?

16 posted on 09/19/2015 12:21:44 PM PDT by proust (If Obama was accused of being a Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict him?)

IQ originated as a test devised by people to measure intelligence. The people who originally devised it used their own culture as a reference. This introduced all sorts of errors.

After significant academic and political hoo-rah about the errors, most psychologists decided to call raw intelligence "g" and agreed to disagree about how to measure it.

Calling IQ names does not in the least negate the existence of raw intelligence, that it is commonly referred to as "g" these days, and that it is largely based on genetic inheritance with the usual variations inherent in species.

94 posted on 09/19/2015 1:35:39 PM PDT by Thud

142 posted on 09/19/2015 4:53:48 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)

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