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[Medium] IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle (Argument Closed)

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UPDATE

ARGUMENT CLOSED (2025): The argument is now closed thanks to paper by Brown, Wai, and Chabris that tried to rebut the piece below, but confirmed all of its conclusions. The piece, most recent one on IQ and relying on multi-cohort studies, unintentially showed that IQ explains almost nothing in educational attainment, occupational attainment, and …income! And that, in spite of the circularity. I did not notice the paper until 2024.

Link: medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-swindle

Nassim is back posting on Facebook

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Nassim has updated his followers on Facebook regarding his latest work debunking IQ science.

The fellow is overall fair but a bit generous to the NeoNazis with a sinister racial program.https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2019/08/talebs-call-to-duel

Posted by Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Wednesday, August 7, 2019

The piece on IQ. See the technical link for more.Basically the only reason it is used is research on genetic…

Posted by Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Wednesday, August 7, 2019

Medium: IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle

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Background : “IQ” is a stale test meant to measure mental capacity but in fact mostly measures extreme unintelligence (learning difficulties) as well as, to a lesser extent, a form of intelligence, stripped of 2nd order effects. It is via negativa not via positiva. It is meant to select exam-takers, paper shufflers, obedient IYIs (intellectuals yet idiots), ill adapted for “real life”. 

Link: https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-swindle