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09/17/2007: "Mainstream media launches FUD against IQ testing"
IQ and intelligence are two different things. One is a measuring instrument's scale and the other is a psychological construct that is measured, to one degree or another, by an IQ test. We don't confuse inches and paper, so why do we confuse IQ and intelligence? Second, few scholars actually study intelligence. While the word might be used in common parlance, there is no common definition. Instead, most serious scholars study general intelligence (g) or one of its sub-constructs (e..g, fluid abilities, crystallized abilities; see here or here or here). Once you make the jump to g, the definition becomes much more consensual. There are technical debates (as there are in any branch of science), but it's measurement (by factor analysis of one flavor or another) is virtually undebated. For most purposes in daily life, it is OK to quasi-equate intelligence and g, as well as IQ scores and
intelligence, but they really are quite different concepts.
[ They all want to be popular for being more accepting to others, when the truth is that some individuals have more intelligence than others and IQ measures it reasonably accurately. Oh, the taboo-breaking blasphemy. ]
http://www.gnxp.com/blog/2007/09/progression-of-iq.php