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I needed this caliper positivity on my dash 🥲
When people use the term "calipers" to obliquely and pejoratively refer to people who think that meaningful politically-salient differences between different human populations exist, I always want to respond "there's nothing wrong with literally measuring the size of peoples' heads with literal calipers". Obviously we have better tools for investigating human differences now than 19th century European anthropologists did, and we should use them too. But also literally it's fine to measure the size of people's heads with calipers. It's fine to measure the size of people's heads with calipers even if they're non-white, it's fine to measure the size of people's heads with calipers even if you're doing it to a lot of people so you can get a lot of head size measurements and do statistics on them. Hell, if you want, you can measure the size of my own head with calipers. Go for it, I don't mind.
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Researchers noticed early on that all cognitive abilities seemed to positively correlate with one another - so, people who do well on one type of test would also tend to do well on others. Statistical analysis finds that this happens strongly enough that it's useful to just use a single dimension to represent how 'smart' someone is, even if subtest performance can be tilted, eg verbally or visuospatially. This is called the positive manifold of the g-factor, and it is "arguably the most replicated result in all psychology". So, throw together a bunch of subtests to measure it as well as you can, norm the score so that 100 is the population average, and presto, you have an IQ test. If you can come up with a better or un-biased one you could win a Nobel prize, but that would be really hard.
Even if IQ were a totally crappy measure of "intelligence" per se, it still correlates with lots of useful things like job performance and lifespan, and predicts a low likelihood of addictions, diseases, and car crashes, sometimes better than any other known variable, so it's wrong to call it 'completely subjective'.
Isn't it fucking insane that so many people think that IQs are real. Like people genuinely believe you are born with one set level of intelligence that can be measured on a scale from 1 to ~200. As if intelligence wasn't extremely nuanced and completely subjective. And the fact that the majority of scientists that have advocated for IQ tests in the past have been eugenicists doesn't seem to concern anyone either
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"About 40% of modern kids can't read! This is insane!"
Phonics causes disparate impact.
"We're not giving enough resources to education, they need more funding!"
Phonics causes disparate impact.
"School administrations are to blame, they put too much pressure on teachers! How can they focus on every kid's unique Ways of Knowing with standardized curriculums??"
Phonics causes disparate impact.
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