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> there are bubbles of academia, industry, and the general population that swear by them and work to legitimize them.

Perhaps you a right, because this is my main exposure to psychometric. From much of what I have read from various journals, there are clearly those that are contrarians, but mainstream academic psychology presents IQ as if IQ is some infallible measurement of human intelligence.

Despite IQ's merits being contentious (like BMI), it is still widely used regardless. IQ testing is still used for clinical diagnostic purposes (why I had to take one), entrance in to some gifted academic programs, in judicial contexts, etc..

Based on my personal research and experiences, I align with the contrarian views vs. the mainstream, academic views.




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