I completely agree to the point that any IQ-test like test is just a proxy to meassure what is commonly called intelligence. And these tests are just proxies, they bear in themselves the risk that any studiy based on them is more analysing the proxy (in this case the IQ-test, SAT or whatever) than the real thing (in this case intelligence).
On the orther hand I completly agree that is damn hard to meassure intelligence correctly. But as as long as you don't have proxy that works as well for "educated" westerners as it does for "uneducated" bush or jungle tribesmen you still have quite a high risk of error in your studies. Just my 5 cents.
P.S.: Upvoted rstevensons posts, don't see any reason to down vote him for being critical about multiple choice tests as a basis for such studies.
On the orther hand I completly agree that is damn hard to meassure intelligence correctly. But as as long as you don't have proxy that works as well for "educated" westerners as it does for "uneducated" bush or jungle tribesmen you still have quite a high risk of error in your studies. Just my 5 cents.
P.S.: Upvoted rstevensons posts, don't see any reason to down vote him for being critical about multiple choice tests as a basis for such studies.