That said, while IQ tests do have some validity outside the 135+ regime, I do think it’s a good bit weaker, and I put substantially less weight on the results of IQ tests being able to differentiate among the tails.
I think this can be solved by creating an IQ test optimized for informativeness in the high range of ability. That shouldn’t be very hard to do, compared to the scale at which it could be applied.
most of my uncertainty about people usually isn’t concentrated in being able to tell how smart someone is, but is more concentrated in how reliable they are, how ethical they are and how likely they are to get hijacked by weird societal forces and happy-death spirals and similar things, for which making standardized tests seem at least a good amount harder (especially ones that can’t be gamed).
I agree, though this also raises some questions about whether OP’s post has all of the important points. Some resistance to objective metrics is likely due to those metrics not being appropriate.
Also, I can’t help but wonder, I feel like an organization that put effort into it could make a lot of progress testing for other stuff. It may be mainly about setting up some reputation systems that collect a lot of private information about how people act. Though in practice I suspect people will oppose it for privacy reasons.
I think this can be solved by creating an IQ test optimized for informativeness in the high range of ability. That shouldn’t be very hard to do, compared to the scale at which it could be applied.
I agree, though this also raises some questions about whether OP’s post has all of the important points. Some resistance to objective metrics is likely due to those metrics not being appropriate.
Also, I can’t help but wonder, I feel like an organization that put effort into it could make a lot of progress testing for other stuff. It may be mainly about setting up some reputation systems that collect a lot of private information about how people act. Though in practice I suspect people will oppose it for privacy reasons.