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tptacekyesterday at 4:58 PM1 replyview on HN

Other things also correlate well with many practical measures of cognitive ability, but you wouldn't be so quick to say that they're privileged the way IQ is, so there must be more to the explanation.


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Sharlinyesterday at 5:28 PM

IQ is privileged because it's easily quantifiable by definition, testable with minimal setup and (assuming a modern test) more or less universal without cultural biases.

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