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0 pointsthewarrior4y ago0 comments

I give an IQ test to a tribal in the Amazon jungle and a PhD in Chemistry.

The PhD in Chemistry will have the superior IQ but ask both to survive in the jungle and the tribal wins hands down.

It’s a very facetious assumption that solving a few puzzle questions captures all the facets of a human beings creativity. This is like saying that the best leet coders are the best software engineers.

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marton784y ago· 2 in thread

You're fighting a straw man here. Nobody claimed that IQ models all facets of human creativity.

thewarriorOP4y ago

If it captures such a small facet of what it means to be human then its a very poor metric to optimize for. We don’t even know what trade offs we are making.

Apocryphon4y ago

The statement "You might argue about the fine-grained distinction between the smart ones, but you wouldn't find somebody who you considered smart who somehow still had a 50 IQ." seems to claim that IQ models human creativity- or rather, human intelligence ("smartness")- comprehensively.

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