Picture a mind that has much cloudier memory of what happened beyond 5..10 minutes ago, starting at the age of 20. This wouldn’t impact the IQ score much, will impact intelligence on tasks that you have to think about for more than 5..10 minutes. Plenty of things are not measured by IQ tests, things that are necessary for all sorts of problem solving. From what I gather, Stanovich is quite open to there being a wide array of intelligence traits not measured by IQ tests; it’s the people who sell a rationality enhancement that doesn’t affect IQ test score, who need the rationality to reside entirely within the non measured traits (rather than only partially).
Consider those ‘pick a correct picture to continue the sequence’ tests. They’re essentially testing your ability to assess complexity (and assign priors based on complexity), a traditionally ‘rational’ thing. As well, they’re impacted by your tendency to think hard even when encountering an informal problem. Of course, the correlation is not going to be perfect, but there’s going to be a correlation.
Picture a mind that has much cloudier memory of what happened beyond 5..10 minutes ago, starting at the age of 20. This wouldn’t impact the IQ score much, will impact intelligence on tasks that you have to think about for more than 5..10 minutes. Plenty of things are not measured by IQ tests, things that are necessary for all sorts of problem solving. From what I gather, Stanovich is quite open to there being a wide array of intelligence traits not measured by IQ tests; it’s the people who sell a rationality enhancement that doesn’t affect IQ test score, who need the rationality to reside entirely within the non measured traits (rather than only partially).
Consider those ‘pick a correct picture to continue the sequence’ tests. They’re essentially testing your ability to assess complexity (and assign priors based on complexity), a traditionally ‘rational’ thing. As well, they’re impacted by your tendency to think hard even when encountering an informal problem. Of course, the correlation is not going to be perfect, but there’s going to be a correlation.