I think intelligence is just something too complex to summarise in a single number. Any attempt to do so will always either have big flaws and biases, or be too broad to be meaningful.
I’d consider it equivalent to trying to put a number on how “skilled” someone is. Like, skilled at what? What skills are you going to test and how are you going to balance them?
Different types of intelligence are more abstract than different skills but I think it’s as meaningless to try to express the whole thing with a single number.
And I’m saying this as someone who’s recently diagnosed with an IQ of 138 (had to do an IQ test as a part of a job application), which is above average, so I’m not saying this because I’m salty about my own IQ score.
I think intelligence is just something too complex to summarise in a single number. Any attempt to do so will always either have big flaws and biases, or be too broad to be meaningful.
I’d consider it equivalent to trying to put a number on how “skilled” someone is. Like, skilled at what? What skills are you going to test and how are you going to balance them?
Different types of intelligence are more abstract than different skills but I think it’s as meaningless to try to express the whole thing with a single number.
And I’m saying this as someone who’s recently diagnosed with an IQ of 138 (had to do an IQ test as a part of a job application), which is above average, so I’m not saying this because I’m salty about my own IQ score.