The question of whether IQ is more like height, where the concept cuts reality by its joints, or more like athleticism, where it’s just an aggregated characteristic, is indeed very interesting. It seems that people have strong opinions about the matter, but I’m not exactly sure how to disentangle these two hypotheses. What kind of methodology can we use in principle to answer this question?
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The question of whether IQ is more like height, where the concept cuts reality by its joints, or more like athleticism, where it’s just an aggregated characteristic, is indeed very interesting. It seems that people have strong opinions about the matter, but I’m not exactly sure how to disentangle these two hypotheses. What kind of methodology can we use in principle to answer this question?