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Because IQ is a very specific thing.

It doesn't mean you know a lot or are good at high school maths.

IIRC an ideal IQ test would be something you could take even if you can't read and haven't learned maths and it will tell you something about your general problem solving skills.

And as we all know, people can be excellent problem solvers without being very athletic at all, so mixing that into the score would actually make it less useful.




You don't need to know how to read or know math to shoot a basketball and the problem is well defined. Put ball through hoop.


Someone who in principle has a very high "Athletic Quotient" may be relatively bad at this depending on how many times they've attempted it before the test.

A good AQ test would hopefully control for this? Though my understanding is that IQ doesn't control very well for practice either. It's a hard problem.


Goes both ways: you don't need to be good at sports to be an excellent problem solver in the office.


> Because IQ is a very specific thing.

IQ is definitely not a specific thing at all, unless by that you mean “IQ is what gets measured by IQ tests”.




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