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Message: <blockquote data-quote="squibbles" data-source="post: 8467611" data-attributes="member: 6937590">Intelligence tests are supposed to be consistent over time, and usually are (on average), but there are all kinds of things that can bias them (which the test writers perpetually struggle to mitigate) and some intelligence tests are better measures of G than others.I'm not sure. That may be disconfirming evidence but, you know, there needs to be consistent disconfirming evidence and also a good replacement explanation of what causes a phenomena, before the existing explanation is discarded.It can be tricky getting access to academic articles sometimes because of the pay-gating of the large journal publishers, but you can usually get them through your local library.<a href="https://www.annualreviews.org/" target="_blank">Annual Reviews</a> is good place to find high level summaries of research about almost anything. <a href="https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev-psych-120710-100353" target="_blank">They have one on intelligence from 2012</a>. There is also the <a href="https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2020-80416-015" target="_blank">book chapter</a> I linked in my first post in this thread. As access to those might be difficult, here is a full text link to a <a href="https://nevtud.ppk.elte.hu/dstore/document/1365/Kovacs%20%26Conway_What%20Is%20IQ_%20Life%20Beyond%20%E2%80%9CGeneral%20Intelligence%E2%80%9D.pdf" target="_blank">short article about the topic from 2019</a> (it argues against general intelligence, fyi) which summarizes prior research and cites lots of things, so you can follow its breadcrumbs if you're so inclined. Also, <a href="https://scholar.google.com/" target="_blank">google scholar</a> is your friend if you ever want to find things like this in the future.---To clarify; I am not of the opinion that general intelligence definitely governs human success and flourishing, just that there is a there there. A meaningful phenomenon has been observed, there has been a good faith effort to understand it, and it might be that general intelligence is a durable personal characteristic.</blockquote>

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