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University of Cambridge Cognitive Ability Test

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101 points indigodaddy | 1 comments | 30 Aug 25 17:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | source
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hirvi74 ◴[30 Aug 25 19:12 UTC] No.45077200[source]▶
I still do not understand why we are wasting scientific resources trying to stack rank humans on arbitrarily defined concepts like cognitive ability or intelligence.

After over a century of psychometric research in cognitive abilities and intelligence, what do we have to show for it? Whose life has actually improved for the better? Have the benefits from such research, if any, outweighed the amount of harm that has already been caused?

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1. riazrizvi ◴[30 Aug 25 19:47 UTC] No.45077475[source]▶
It’s just a business, and it sells because institution leaders find it useful to have some convincing ideas to back up their positions, then the cottage industry it spawns defends it, and we all arrive in the world with established ideas like this in play. There are many little distortions like this in society that experience eventually puts the lie to. It’s the landscape to navigate, to play along with. A huge part of what makes a strong society is how many of us know what the game is, who can also put on a good performance of it. Imagine being in an improv group and people keep calling out that it’s pretend.