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Old 10-15-2008, 04:12 AM   #135 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Jack Flak View Post
Doing well in school requires work, doing well on an IQ test much less so.
True, to some degree, but IQ is rooted in the Stanford-Binet test, which is very much aligned with school testing. Course, you get into circular concepts here. It was meant to test for school, so it used school-liked questions, so doing well is... well... redundant.

Not useless, it is predictive enough to be worthwhile, but... not exactly as meaningful as people make it out to be.

edit: Or what the link above shows. Beat to the punch, meh.

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