It would be amusing to have a bunch of people take the same IQ test, then tally all the plausible yet contradictory answers they produced to the same questions. Done well, that could be an effective demolition of the whole charade (though not in the sense that it would get anyone to change their mind about it).
The trouble with such tests is that they like you to be intelligent, but not too intelligent. So what they measure is efficiency of conformance. Is that what we should be optimizing for? I don't think so.
It seems absurd that something so obviously unintelligent would be the key to measuring intelligence.
Edit: oh, I see I'm just repeating what the OP has already brilliantly said. What a great and devastating little article.
The trouble with such tests is that they like you to be intelligent, but not too intelligent. So what they measure is efficiency of conformance. Is that what we should be optimizing for? I don't think so.
It seems absurd that something so obviously unintelligent would be the key to measuring intelligence.
Edit: oh, I see I'm just repeating what the OP has already brilliantly said. What a great and devastating little article.