[ravar]

Lets propose that pattern recognition is indeed something different than what most people would call intelligence. If this is so then there should be a statistically reliable way to measure pattern recognition in a way that does not also measure intelligence. However based on my understanding of how the IQ test is designed this is not the case.

[chillacy]

Just want to throw in the context, performance in subtests which measure pattern recognition or short term memory all correlate into g: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics)

There’s still debate over whether this correlation points to anything meaningful though.