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> predictive validity of IQ

I'm not disputing that. I just think it's dehumanising to reduce someone down to a single number, especially when so many other factors about a person need to be taken into consideration.

My moral-outrage here is my impression that the OP thinks IQ is all that matters, or that it's valid to make significant life-impacting and (business-impacting) decisions based solely on that number. To me, it's same bad-idea as the UK's "11+" exam system (fortunately now long abandoned) that practically determined someone's entire life based on a single exam taken at age 11.

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Also, I find it somewhat amusing that the more someone cares about high IQ scores, the lower their EQ scores tend to be.



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