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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: Visualizing
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On 7/09/2024 5:19 am, john larkin wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Sep 2024 01:30:24, Wanderer<dont@emailme.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, 06 Sep 2024 07:53:46 -0700, john larkin wrote:
>>> On Fri, 06 Sep 2024 11:27:38 -0400, Joe Gwinn <joegwinn@comcast.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 06 Sep 2024 07:53:46 -0700, john larkin
>>>> <jlarkin_highland_tech> wrote:

<snip>

>>> I think the original IQ test was for the military.
>>
>> Baloney.
> 
> Thank you for your thoughtful insights.

He happens to be right. The idea was invented in France in 1904 and used 
to sort educationally sub-normal kids so that they got the kid of 
educational help that they needed and could get some advantage out of.

The US military picked up the idea in 1917 to sort the flood of 
conscripts they were getting into the kinds of jobs where they'd be most 
useful. The average IQ of front-line infantry men ended up at 80.

It was the first large scale application of the idea, but the military 
didn't invent or develop it.

https://www.verywellmind.com/history-of-intelligence-testing-2795581

Everybody with any sense understands that the tests are testing a whole 
range of very different capabilities, and the single number IQ is a 
gross over-simplification. The intellectually lazy don't care.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney