Maybe I am in the minority, but I think that I in my teenage years I would definetely have studied for an IQ test if I had had to take one.
Let us say that only 1% of people are like me, and the other 99% does not care. With your premises, that 1% would get a very high IQ. This is still a lot of people; is it possible that they are the majority of the people with high IQ? Or do you think that most of the people with IQ > 130 are “natural” (in the sense that scored high without solved made similar exercises before)?
This isn’t a case where we need more research. This is a case where we have over a century of credible data(1) and the strongest theoretical constructs in psychology or any other social science. We just ignore the answers we have because nobody likes them. We’d rather believe that effort matters more than genetics.
(1) The US military in WWI and WWII tested tens of millions of men from broad swaths of society.
Maybe I am in the minority, but I think that I in my teenage years I would definetely have studied for an IQ test if I had had to take one.
Let us say that only 1% of people are like me, and the other 99% does not care. With your premises, that 1% would get a very high IQ. This is still a lot of people; is it possible that they are the majority of the people with high IQ? Or do you think that most of the people with IQ > 130 are “natural” (in the sense that scored high without solved made similar exercises before)?
While I would tilt towards the ‘natural’ option, this question is worthy of some research.
This isn’t a case where we need more research. This is a case where we have over a century of credible data(1) and the strongest theoretical constructs in psychology or any other social science. We just ignore the answers we have because nobody likes them. We’d rather believe that effort matters more than genetics.
(1) The US military in WWI and WWII tested tens of millions of men from broad swaths of society.