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Old 05-26-19, 10:37 AM   #14
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Originally Posted by ikalugin View Post
This assumes that population level scores would not depend on those factors while they most likely would, for example if an individual did not receive proper nutrition as a child (ie in poor regions of Africa) it would be reasonable to assume that he may have lower intellect as a consequence, etc, and this is only from nurture rather than nature factors.


Unless ofc you try to artificially weight those scores to even them out, but this would make them useless.
What Platapus wants there, indeed is tried to accieve. Its so-called "culture-free IQ tests", that aim at methods for the test that is not to be influenced by education levels, knoweldge and cultural interference like known/universal symbols versus unknown symbols.
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