Video games also have potential legal advantages over IQ tests for companies. You could argue that “we only hire people good at video games to get people who fit our corporate culture of liking video games” but that argument doesn’t work as well for IQ tests.

yet again an original post title that self-sneers

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      and likelihood of being convicted for a crime.

      do you think there are any confounding factors there

      EDIT: actually, forget it, you’ve been deleting and reposting to try to promote this stuff, bye now

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        aw fuck, my baby’s first post defending iq got d-d-d-downvotes! the only high iq move here is to delete and repost it and then post a pop science youtube video that supports my point. that’ll show em who the real @mind in the room is

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          @mind @dgerard

          IQ tests assume that there is a general intelligence that they’re measuring. That has never been found and if it _had_ then it would be compulsory learning at school.

          IQ tests are pretty good for measuring low attainment and problems, that’s what they were designed for.

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          you know what, I’ll bite

          “just for kicks” I’ve run IQ tests at various times in my life, in various states of being (stressed, sick, tired, etc)

          the variance I got on the outputs have been up to 40 points wide across many cases.

          objective measure it is not.

          proxy indicator, very much so.

          the shit does not measure what you think it does.

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            @froztbyte @sneerclub Data point: at one time as a kid it occurred to a school counselor that maybe my grades were evidence that my supposed “potential” based on an earlier IQ test was wrong & that a new more modern version of the Stanford-Binet would reveal my imbecility. The 2nd test came out 60+ points higher than the 1st. That couldn’t be correct, so I ended up taking 2 more tests, both with scores in between but substantially different.
            Sure, IQ is real.

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      You know I misread this post due to the janky format of the new website and I just wanted you to understand as you go that I really thought you could have had something great with the version of this where you’re arguing that very defensive gamers are predicted to be more intelligent and do less crime than black people, but no: you just had to be the brainlet with the oldest fuckin’ “actually IQ test are real and magic” shtick on the internet

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        this is how we know nu-sneerclub* is a success

        * much as nu-metal

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