Zonkerbl wrote:
Lol. Nothing you say in this post contradicts what I said. Yes, serious cognitive experts devised this test in the early 20th Century. They did it by choosing a group of kids they considered successful and a group they considered unsuccessful and kept questions that were good at differentiating them. Thus they embedded in the IQ test the racial biases at the time. This is a well known statistical artifact of these tests. We do not know how to measure intelligence. We don't know what intelligence is.
Ask any serious cognitive scientist and they will agree with me that IQ is a very flawed measure. I suspect the reason you like the IQ test so much is that it confirms your preconceived notion that white people have superior intelligence to certain other minorities you don't like. That very property is why serious cognitive scientists feel it is a flawed measure. It is not measuring what they want to measure.
I agree with you that all the statistical evidence seems to indicate that intelligence, however measured, is highly hereditary. I hope that's true because otherwise my argument about skimming off the cream of the crop from other countries would be moot.
But again, I'm going to keep repeating this, IQ and college graduation rates are a lousy metric to apply to newly arrived immigrants. I'll add that IQ is a lousy metric to compare hispanics to whites with, since the IQ test has built in biases favoring white people. As you point out, even though it is a lousy measure of intelligence *levels* there's nothing wrong with using it to track changes in intelligence over time for one person, or comparing parents to children.
Nevertheless, I propose (AGAIN) that the proper metric to apply to DACA beneficiaries is lifetime jobs created. Or perhaps the contribution to GDP of jobs created, to be a little more precise.
If, as you say, IQ is a poor measurement of intelligence and it was only developed as a means to measure to success in developed, western society, then isn't it still an ideal measuring tool for estimating the likely success of would-be immigrants into America, which is, in fact, a developed western society?
