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From: daryl@oracorp.com (Daryl McCullough)
Subject: Re: RACE and IQ
Message-ID: <1994Oct21.142217.19760@oracorp.com>
Organization: Odyssey Research Associates, Inc.
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 1994 14:22:17 GMT
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jerrybro@uclink2.berkeley.edu (Gerardo Browne) writes:

>Courage, creativity, good sense, dependability, and determination are
>more important than normal variation in test-measured intelligence,
>for normal life, and for great achievements.

It isn't clear to me exactly what is being measured by intelligence
tests. However, there was an article a few years ago in either
Atlantic or Harpers that having a high-IQ according to IQ tests
correlates very strongly with assessments of job performance in a wide
variety of jobs, *including* "unskilled" jobs. IQ (that is, whatever
is measured by IQ tests) seems to be a better predictor of job
performance than level of education. So, it doesn't seem to me to be
correct to dismiss IQ tests as doing nothing more than measuring the
ability to do well on IQ tests.

Of course, none of this shows that we know what we're doing when we
measure IQs.

Daryl McCullough
ORA Corp.
Ithaca, NY

