Mike Williams wrote:
I couldn't agree more with Mike Palij's analysis. IQ and g never existed. IQ
is just an average score; g is just an artifact of factor analysis. Neither
represent cognitive or brain processes. They don't explain anything and they
are hard to define. Any vague construct
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Subject: RE: [tips] How Intelligent is IQ
Mike Williams wrote:
I couldn't agree more with Mike Palij's analysis. IQ and g never existed. IQ
is just an average score; g is just an artifact of factor analysis. Neither
represent cognitive or brain processes. They don't explain anything
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From: Jim Clark j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
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Sent: Wednesday, April 9, 2014 10:49:08 AM
Subject: RE: [tips] How Intelligent is IQ
Hi
I'm surprised to see the IQ
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On Wed, 09 Apr 2014 07:50:49 -0700, Jim Clark wrote:
Hi
I'm surprised to see the IQ bashing based on a perhaps simplistic
interpretation of some brain research showing that two different
areas of the brain light up in 16 subjects performing various cognitive
tasks.
[snip]
I think you miss the
: Wednesday, April 9, 2014 12:16:17 PM
Subject: RE: [tips] How Intelligent is IQ
On Wed, 09 Apr 2014 07:50:49 -0700, Jim Clark wrote:
Hi
I'm surprised to see the IQ bashing based on a perhaps simplistic
interpretation of some brain research showing that two different
areas of the brain light up
I still think we'd all be a lot less worried about this thing if it were called
academic preparedness.
Paul
On Apr 9, 2014, at 12:16 PM, Mike Palij wrote:
On Wed, 09 Apr 2014 07:50:49 -0700, Jim Clark wrote:
Hi
I'm surprised to see the IQ bashing based on a perhaps simplistic
John,
A few points:
(1) One way to think about factor analysis is that it is a
technique to explain the mathematical basis for correlations,
specifically, being able to reduce a correlation matrix to a
smaller matrix where the rows and columns are independent
(though one may be satisfied with
