Jordan Peterson - Controversial Facts about IQ

Why HN readers recommended it

HN commenters use it as supporting material in arguments about IQ and the g-factor view of intelligence.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Bite-sized Philosophy

Topic

iq and intelligence

Format

lecture

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

4

Recommendation years in dataset

2017–2025

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From the original HN conversations

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• >Yet, also, IQ tests are strongly influenced by cultural knowledge Raven Progressive Matrices, I believe the most used IQ test today is not influenced by cultural knowledge. IQ has an amazingly high correlation with academic success and work success, see [VIDEO] it is worthwhile

• > but "intelligence" less so I don't think there's any problem measuring intelligence, where we've traditionally run into issues is where we start to make policy or social decisions using this data without understanding it's subtleties. I think Jordan B Peterson has a good classroom …

• The link demonstrates that there is a well-reproduced phenomenon in real science whereby, e.g., test scores in various academic subjects correlate positively with each other, and that this can be explained by a common psychometric factor that is reasonable to refer to as "intelligence". The …