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CLPadvocate | 5 months ago

Just FYI: PISA was never meant to test intelligence. And IQ in general is unscientific bullshit.

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like_any_other|5 months ago

> PISA was never meant to test intelligence

Regardless of intention, it is a test where intelligence helps you perform.

> IQ in general is unscientific bullshit

You probably mean to say some specific interpretation of IQ scores is unscientific. I disagree that it's entirely useless, but regardless, if you truly believe that, you have to apply it always - both when it does, and doesn't, show what you want.

You can't, e.g., claim that IQ is bullshit, and also that Jews are overrepresented in influential positions because of their high IQ.

CLPadvocate|5 months ago

> Regardless of intention, it is a test where intelligence helps you perform.

PISA is just testing if you learned some set of information at specific point in time. It has basically nothing to do with intelligence - it's a test of standard compliance.

> You probably mean to say some specific interpretation of IQ scores is unscientific.

No - I mean that IQ is NOT MEASURING HUMAN INTELLIGENCE AT ALL. It may have some correlation with some aspects of intelligence, or maybe rather have some correlation with human's performance in specific situations which some other people may consider as "acting intelligently", but it's not guaranteed to be the case. So maybe it's rather some kind of an indicator of the current mental and body fitness (oxygen level, nutrition, sleep / exhaustion, focus, or whatsoever), but no more.

> You can't, e.g., claim that IQ is bullshit, and also that Jews are overrepresented in influential positions because of their high IQ.

which i never did in my entire life.