re: #237 Obdicut

Yes, we’ve already established that we’re using different meanings for ‘novel’. I think your usage of it is so broad as to be rather irrelevant. You can see above for what I mean by ‘novel’; it depends on the individual what is novel to them.

SAT tests, which test for academic performance, are kind of necessarily going to predict future academic performance. That’s not that surprising.

Your definition of novel strikes me as narrowly designed to fit your argument. If there is one thing that categorizes novel, it is “broad and general”.

As to academic performance at graduate levels, you seem to think it is just a higher level of rote learning. That may be true at Pat Robertson’s place but it is far from my understanding of that academic performance is unrelated to intelligence, at least in the primary disciplines, including the arts.

You seem to be fundamentally arguing about genetic intelligence potential independent of what is measured by IQ or SAT tests. I am not.