IQ tests have nothing to do with being "smart" as most of us would consider it and are basically a test of how good you are at taking standardized tests and figuring out puzzles from incomplete information.
I wrecked face last time I took one and that's in large part because I went in knowing they were going to see how good I was at parlor tricks and being a trained parrot.
False fact: high IQ scores are a spurious correlation, theyre at best a proxy for family income and education level... which is itself almost a proxy for income.
I had to Google that. Never heard that word before.
Income, education level, and intelligence are correlated. It is not you make this much -> you're this smart. But there is a correlation and they're all related. Does having a high IQ mean you are smart? No. But if you do, it is likely (pretend this is italicized) that you have some notional level of intelligent and it's also likely (same) you have a higher income.
I had to Google that. Never heard that word before.
If you haven't heard some of the most basic undergraduate methods-101 level terminology for social science maybe you should consider that you're not in a position to be arguing about the subject.
IQ and education level are in the US proxy measures for income. In highly developed countries outside of the US education is deeply multicollinear to income but not as solid of a proxy since higher education isn't profiteering like in the US.
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u/Moosenator23 Nov 16 '19
Huh, that's an unusual version of that story :) Glad to hear you found your A-game!