re: #418 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

One of my teacher prep courses for my MAT was a seminar on the science of education, and we spent quite a bit of time discussing IQ tests and their limited validity and usefulness, as well as their abuse. The professor was one of the best teachers I’ve ever had. He made the whole IQ charade clear as day.

Falls in line with directed surveys and horoscopes. With the right wording you can make it say whatever you want it to say. Which then leads into “lies, damned lies, and statistics” territory since the skewed survey provides the statistical data to make whatever biased claim you wanted to make in the first place.