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soldierofhayley on June 21, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Trump administration has plan to scrap ‘startup vi...

"In the normal population, g and IQ are roughly 90% correlated and are often used interchangeably."

Sorry the science doesn't agree with what you think it should be, I will be sure to let the scientists know.

https://www.iq-tests.eu/iq-test-IQ-and-general-intelligence-...

andrepd on June 22, 2017 [–]

I literally have no idea what your point with that quote is.

Anyway, Wikipedia has a good overview of the main gripes with IQ: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient#Criticis...

thebooktocome on June 22, 2017 | [–]

Looks like grandparent could use a copy of Vigen's _Spurious Correlations_:

https://www.amazon.com/Spurious-Correlations-Tyler-Vigen/dp/...

I think it'd make a lovely coffee table book.

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