Comment by Citizen_Lame
7 hours ago
IQ is not measure of intelligence, it's more like curriculum test if you go into history of test and how it started.
7 hours ago
IQ is not measure of intelligence, it's more like curriculum test if you go into history of test and how it started.
How about this, an IQ test developed in the society you have to survive in is a good indicator of outcomes.
If you want to be a pendant about it then there is no such thing as a comprehensive intelligence test at all as there is no universally agreed upon definition of intelligence. But that's not very useful either.
I think there is ample evidence IQ correlates with lots of things like job success, performance in mental work, income etc to the point the military and many organizations require an IQ test for sensitive tasks. To dismiss it as curriculum memorization, which I think is what you are hinting at, is demonstrably incorrect.
It's not clear to me why you believe those two claims are in opposition.
Outside of science it seems to be that people measure intelligence as "what I feel I have" and nothing else.
Memorization and recall is a huge building block of intelligence itself. Almost everything we call intelligent has some kind of memory to store and work on problems. The more storage you have the more potential intelligence.
No serious person in the field agrees with this.