To use a not so PC chess analogy OP is arguing that true intelligence is somebody who buys GM books and studies them relentlessly while somebody like Mikhail Tal briefly walks by and fucks him over so hard that he ends up in the ER and can’t walk straight for a week

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Obviously, there are factors in play here (ADHD, sleep quality pre-test, anxiety), etc. But dismissing IQ tests entirely seems ignorant

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I should admit something here: I don’t know what an IQ test looks like. There can’t really be a credibly accepted way to do those, right? It’d sound more subjective than anything.

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