A suggestion: IQ might be better understood less like Height and more like “how high can you jump”. Where for example, people can train to jump higher, people can practice IQ tests. People can wear fancy shoes and jump a lot, causing different jumping results. People can fail to jump high unless they are wearing certain shoes, and you can claim that certain aids are cheating. For example—he’s only a great musician and not really good at anything else, therefore not really a high IQ.
While this isn’t a great analogy, it’s more fitting than “how tall”.
A suggestion: IQ might be better understood less like Height and more like “how high can you jump”. Where for example, people can train to jump higher, people can practice IQ tests. People can wear fancy shoes and jump a lot, causing different jumping results. People can fail to jump high unless they are wearing certain shoes, and you can claim that certain aids are cheating. For example—he’s only a great musician and not really good at anything else, therefore not really a high IQ.
While this isn’t a great analogy, it’s more fitting than “how tall”.