Ophiolite
Recalcitrant Procrastinating Ape
The one thing that IQ tests are really good at is measuring how well people do when taking IQ tests. Since I am somewhat competitive and score well on such tests, I rather like them. And yet I am routinely outsmarted by people with lower IQ's, either because they work harder, or get lucky, or figure out a way to blackmail me. (Some of them are so unprincipled they use the instructions to assemble Ikea furniture.)This is true but also I doubt we really have the means to measure "absolute intelligence". Timed IQ tests don't measure it at all but is more of a mental performance test, not absolute intelligence because if given enough time, it's not hard to supply all the correct answers and achieve a perfect score. It's merely testing how fast you can think solving moderately complex problems. Not if you're actually capable of finding solutions or answers to very complex theories or hypothesis even if given unlimited time and resources. Many agencies think they can come up with something if you put billions of dollars and highest IQ people together. But only end up wasting all that money.
Psychological evaluation gets closer but what if the specialist is less intelligent than the subject being tested? AI tend to practice a lot of restraint in this space to avoid offense. However, AI's absolute intelligence is only average.
You really can't trust IQ tests beyond the genius level. IMO, beyond it is just marketing. To sell a theory, creative work, and even religion.
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