Theory Reading: The Competing Factors In IQ (Patreon)

For this week's reading, I figured I'd share a blog post we came upon in our regular search for new perspectives on the IQ question. This review of Siddhartha Mukherjee's work highlights many of the social factors surrounding IQ including its results but also in its popularity. Not only is the premise of IQ testing often questionable, but the questions themselves tend to reflect "the effects of contextual circumstances like poverty, illness, hunger, and educational opportunity." In contradiction to its objective premises IQ testing and measurement has proven to be much more subjective than its adherents are willing to admit. 

-David Griscom