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Alcon
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« on: November 19, 2016, 05:05:09 PM »

This is some serious hilara-garbage.  I like how he just vaguely states that he knows from "Wharton admission requirements" what Trump's IQ is.  I assume he found the average SAT for Wharton admissions, or something, and correlated that to IQ tests.  But I have no idea, since he doesn't even bother to explain the methodology behind his most crucial claim in the article.  He then goes on to babble a bunch about Maslow's concept of self-actualization, which has absolutely nothing to do IQ or anything, besides the fact that the author and his wife seem to like the idea that Trump is a "self-actualizing man" or something.  This is total trash, and the sort of thing for which the Goldwater Rule was created.

FWIW:  I think Trump is a pretty irrational and disorganized thinker, but I wouldn't be surprised if he has a reasonably high IQ.  I very much doubt Obama has a low one.

What is it with partisans arguing not that their side is right but that their side is smarter?

It's simple, TJ.  People who agree with us ideologically, for some unexplained reason, happen to have a bunch of favorable personality traits, even though there's no logical reason to assume they'd have any association with ideology.  People who agree with my beliefs are more likely to be smart, honest, clean, and they always return their library books on time.  I know this because I notice people I don't like having bad traits all the time!
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Alcon
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« Reply #1 on: November 19, 2016, 05:29:57 PM »

A) IQ is a terrible way of measuring "intelligence"

I agree with all of the rest of your post, but in what sense is IQ a terrible measure of intelligence?  IQ obviously and strongly correlates with skill at certain sorts of cognitive tasks, and also has an impressive number of secondary correlations to outcomes.  I realize that IQ attempts to describe particular sorts of intelligence, but it's not like it measures stuff that's obscure or impractical.  So why "terrible"?

I think that IQ is a terrible measure of intellectual honesty -- cognitively adept people are often some of the most skilled rationalizers -- but I don't think that's what most people mean when they talk about "intelligence."
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