Attorney, journalist, and Elon Musk biographer Seth Abramson eviscerated both Elon Musk and his “fanboys” who have attempted to use the billionaire’s IQ as an indication of his intellectual prowess in a series of messages shared on X Thursday evening and into Friday.
Full-scale cognitive batteries (sophisticated IQ tests) are great… for diagnostics. If someone has difficulties identifying the domains where the need extra help, accommodations. I order them all the time and they guide me on how to manage patients. The most telling thing about IQs is that I’ve never seen it in on a resume, not even mensa memberships.
But surely you are aware that companies are trying to sell it off as objectively measurement of int, successfully so since most of the population regards them so? This lil part is my issue!
of course. they do it because people are insecure.
Being interested in an objective measurement of your intellect? Silliest fucking thing I have ever heard!
The belief that an commercial IQ test is an “objective measure of your intellect” is a pretty good subjective measure of your intellect.
I am sorry, it is silly to think that in intelligence test measures intelligence
people fall for unvalidated tests, often even totally fake ones that offer “training” to increase your “IQ”. Generally IQ tests are a very good measure of how well people take standardized tests. The problem is, scoring high on those tests might correlate with one’s capabilities, but it doesn’t mean real-world competence. In medicine for example, it’s not the people with the highest scores tend to be the best doctors, but the ones who follow up on issues, and that habit compounds. etc.
I don’t even know what you are talking about, I honestly don’t even know what you are talking about…