[keiferski]

IQ is a silly metric and should be discarded entirely.

[laichzeit0]

And which metric do you propose we replace it with?

[keiferski]

Why does it need to be replaced? Get rid of it entirely. Intelligence comes in myriad forms and trying to reduce it to a single three digit number is such a naive, ignorant idea to begin with.

[laichzeit0]

So how do we measure whether someone has an intellectual disability and needs special schooling? How do we decide who we can draft into the military? (It used to be an IQ of at least 83)

[keiferski]

It seems like both of those should be individual specific tests, rather than a broad ‘intelligence’ test.

[laichzeit0]

But would the tests be measuring something that a generalized IQ test wouldn’t? It seems better to have one standardized way to measure whatever it is IQ tests are measuring and then use applicable thresholds for your domain.

[keiferski]

Is the test for a driver’s license the same as the test for a calculus exam? Of course not. I see no reason why the educational system or military draft is any different. As I said before, intelligence comes in a variety of forms, so the focus should be on fixing the system to account for this, not categorizing certain students with so-called learning disabilities because they don’t fit into the institutionalized definition of intelligence, which is measured on this extremely oversimplified scale known as an IQ test.