Entries from August 2007

August 15, 2007

IQ and intelligence

Today on Radio 4’s Today programme was a statement which brilliantly shows the problem of ‘correlation or causation’ in scientific statements, and social science especially. They were talking about IQ.
 
Stephen Murdoch (http://www.stephenmurdoch.com/) has a book out saying that IQ tests are problematic. Of course… IQ tests measure something, and we can call this intelligence, but [...]