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Jordan Peterson - Controversial Facts about IQ

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Jordan Peterson discusses the definition of intelligence, how IQ is measured, and its strong correlation with academic and career success.

original source: youtu.be/D7Kn5p7TP_Y?t=47m50s Psychology Professor Dr. Jordan B. Peterson lays down facts about intelligence that shouldn't be controversial. How do we define intelligence and how do we account for different types of categories? Dr. Peterson's new book is available for pre-order: 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos: amzn.to/2yvJf9L If you want to support Dr. Peterson, here is his Patreon: patreon.com/jordanbpeterson Check out Jordan Peterson's Self Authoring Program, a powerful tool to sort yourself out: bit.ly/selfAuth (Official affiliate link for Bite-sized Philosophy)

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What people say. Linked as a useful explanation of psychometrics, intelligence testing, and the societal implications of IQ.

lucioin Hacker News • Recommends

On “Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorders, research suggests”

>Yet, also, IQ tests are strongly influenced by cultural knowledge Raven Progressive Matrices, I believe the most used IQ test today is not influenced by cultural knowledge. IQ has an amazingly high correlation with academic success and work success, see link to this video it is worthwhile
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akira2501in Hacker News • Recommends

On “IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle”

> but "intelligence" less so I don't think there's any problem measuring intelligence, where we've traditionally run into issues is where we start to make policy or social decisions using this data without understanding it's subtleties. I think Jordan B Peterson has a good classroom video segment1 on this problem. 1: link to this video
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zahlmanin Hacker News • Recommends

On “The data on extreme human ageing is rotten from the inside out”

…ach other, and that this can be explained by a common psychometric factor that is reasonable to refer to as "intelligence". The IQ or "intelligence quotient" is an attempt to quantify that which is known to exist, and it's actually one of the best understood ideas in the science of the brain. Additional viewing that largely covers my points below: link to this video You started off saying: > There a lot of pseudoscience around IQ too, probably starting with the very concept of IQ for measuring "intelligence" (for which we would need a strong definition anyway) The point is that we do, in fact, have all the necessary scientific research to argue that the concept of "intelligence" exists - i.e., that we…
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ninetynineninein Hacker News • Mentions

On “America underestimates the difficulty of bringing manufacturing back”

…any of this stuff; I'm not an expert. But I'm pretty sure the first Google search result you find for "IQ by country" isn't going to rebut me effectively. I'm well versed enough in IQ to know that even the first link on google is good enough to refute you. You don't have to believe me, but you can always do your own research to find out I'm right. link to this video this can help…
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