re: #195 wheat-dogg

Psychologists use IQ tests as diagnostic tools, and not necessarily as predictive measurements, AFAIK. They would not subscribe (I hope) to the simplistic argument that genetics determines IQ or that environment does, but would rather argue that “nature and nurture” are both involved in very complex ways, and it would be difficult to isolate one particular factor as a determiner of intelligence and/or a score on an IQ test.

Within American education, IQ tests at one time were used to track students, with high scorers tracked toward college prep and lower scorers tracked in vocational-technical curricula.

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So, yes, IQ tests are a useful diagnostic tool within psychology and provide doctors, families and schools with clues on how to raise and educate their kids. Past that point, their usefulness ends.

You made my point more thoroughly than I did (obviously, since your race displays higher IQ scores than mine).

But seriously,

IQ tests are useful for determining what potentials an individual displays in order to better develop them, but the leap from using the IQ scores of a group of people as a predictive or determinative factor for that group is poorly founded.