What is IQ?
IQ is roughly a measure of the ability to generate patterns (well, quickly, etc) that match the observed data.
What isn't IQ?
Self-control/patience, ethics, conscientiousness, openness to new experience, self-efficacy/confidence, open-mindedness, good information-gathering skill, etc.
What is the primary function of IQ?To persuade other people that one's preferred model is correct.
What does IQ not help with?
Finding reasons to believe other than what one does. Falling prey to typical human cognitive errors.
How often are the patterns that high-IQ finds actually present in the world?
Unclear ... <50%. The mind is a fabulous pattern-generator
For example: 1, 2, 4 ....what's next? Finite data points give infinitely many generating rules.
Corollary: almost all predictive hypotheses are wrong.
How does one determine how the world really is?
Experiment. The deductive/inductive capabilities of IQ are strictly limited to hypothesis generation.
What conclusion?
The value of IQ is in hypothesis generation, and persuasion, and is relatively unconnected to predictive success.
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Quite possibly one of your worst posts:
"What isn't IQ?
Self-control/patience, ethics, conscientiousness, openness to new experience, self-efficacy/confidence, open-mindedness, good information-gathering skill, etc."
There are studies linking IQ to all these things, often strongly.
"What does IQ not help with?
Finding reasons to believe other than what one does. Falling prey to typical human cognitive errors."
Studies show different.
High IQ is necessary for "irreplaceable" people, as per this posting of yours. The 4-10% (or whatever it is) that creates all our wealth.
Leonard,
Good call. Smart folks, taken as a group, are massively +EV. Any individual? Most likely wrong about more stuff than normal.
Anon,
Polite request...I hate trying to figure which Anon I'm talking to. Can you sign as something at the end of the comment, so I can maintain a conversation thread? I know other anons respond to you occasionally.
What isn't IQ?
Self-control/patience is highly correlated with IQ.
Beauty is notably positively correlated with IQ.
Self-Efficacy? I'm not aware of any studies.
Conscientiousness? I've seen negative correlations.
Openness to experience? Positive correlations...but I think below the correlation with beauty.
When you claim that beauty is part of IQ, we can talk...otherwise...we have a set of positively and negatively correlated attributes
Studies show that IQ helps not at all at finding reasons that disagree with your prior conclusion. Those studies?
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