A 42 minute read to prove that someone doesn’t get correlation vs causation as well as a junior college stats class.
Paraphrasing from the comments ‘sure IQ values are bad, but they are the best measures of IQ we have’ Oof. That is pulling an battle winning argument that will lose you the entire war if you think about it.
It’s also, probably wrong. Modern views of intelligence (see Multiple realizability of cognition and Multi-level competency collective intelligence and Free Energy Principle models) suggest you are better of measuring intelligence by measuring it’s metabolism or through perturbation and interactions.
Which isn’t reductive enough for these people.
In 2002, psychologist Richard Lynn and political scientist Tatu Vanhanen published their seminal book
Ah, “seminal” in the sense of “cum-bucket”
Their methodology gave conclusive and unquestionable evidence that people with caucasoid skull shape are innately and genetically predisposed towards knowing what a “regatta” is.
tfw it is in you material interest to be hostile to any kind of sociological insight
