A study conducted in Germany found that men with higher IQs are less inclined to traditional values, but the lead author, psychologist and intelligence researcher Maximilian Krolo of Saarland University, said the researchers did not find these differences among women.
I think good IQ tests take “familiarity with logic puzzles” into account. They try to take everything in to account. When I was doing research on working memory we were using very simple tests that relied heavily on working memory and correlated with IQ tests well. Those test didn’t use any type of logic puzzles white people are more familiar with. IQ is not a perfect score but it was known for a very long time that comparing people from different cultures and background is very difficult if at all possible. This doesn’t mean that IQ tests can’t be used to compare people with similar backgrounds and that you can’t develop better, culturally neutral tests.
Yeah I wasn’t trying to say that IQ tests are worthless, just that they are not the objective measure of intelligence that people think they are. They may measure a certain kind of intelligence amongst people with similar upbringings and opportunities, but all I’m trying to say is that having a higher IQ than someone doesn’t necessarily mean you are “smarter” than them.
In any case, I certainly wasn’t expecting multiple people wanting to argue with me about IQ tests on the internet today. I think I’m going to stop replying to this thread now lol