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IQ tests are bad intelligence indicators: and most academics will tell you that
Can’t rotate a hexagon correctly? You must be an idiot, then
What makes someone smart? What should we look for when assessing how genuinely intelligent someone is? Their grades? Their career success? Their literary and creative output? Their inventions? Whatever you’re thinking, it almost definitely isn’t how quickly they can rotate a pentagon by 30 degrees. It’s probably not how fast they can identify the anomaly in a string of numbers and letters. Because that’s just not at all indicative of how actually intelligent someone is. Intelligence, in real life, has almost nothing to do with speedy pentagon rotation and everything to do with communicative, analytical, and social adeptness. All things that IQ tests, long abandoned by actual scholars and researchers, are notoriously bad at identifying. Because; they were overwhelming built by socially-challenged men who didn’t value communicative, analytical, or social adeptness as intelligence. They only valued numerical and pattern identification as intelligence. Which is great if you’re hiring an engineer: disastrous if you’re hiring an HR director, campaign manager, or product development officer.
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