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Why Can't We Talk About IQ? - Jason Richwine, Politico
Political correctness should not impede the search for real solutions.eace
If the author of this op/ed where to take an IQ test, I suspect he would fail. Let's look at the very first paragraph:
“IQ is a metric of such dubiousness that almost no serious educational researcher uses it anymore,” the Guardian’s Ana Marie Cox wrote back in May. It was a breathtakingly ignorant statement. Psychologist Jelte Wicherts noted in response that a search for “IQ test” in Google’s academic database yielded more than 10,000 hits — just for the year 2013.
Notice that this does not address how the term "IQ test" is being used. If(and this is clear exaggeration to make a point, don't take it literally as me claiming this) that was 10k academic papers researching why IQ tests are so badly failed as a means to measure intelligence, it would still show 10k returns. Or to illustrate it another way: flat earth - Google Scholar. A google scholar search on "flat earth" gives us "About 1,250,000 results (0.13 sec)".
So we are left with the conclusion that either the author does not know how to do basic research, or he is attempting to mislead with something that sounds really good. Either way, he is hardly what I would consider a good source of information.