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> IQ is probably the single most trustworthy finding in psychology/sociology.

The single most trustworthy finding for ... what though? I don't know what a measurement being "trustworthy" means unless you associate it as an indicator for something else. But you didn't do that.



>> IQ is probably the single most trustworthy finding in psychology/sociology.

> The single most trustworthy finding for ... what though? I don't know what a measurement being "trustworthy" means unless you associate it as an indicator for something else. But you didn't do that.

Literally the next sentence is:

>> In a field where even core studies don't tend to get replicated (this is changing slowly and grudgingly), it has survived decades of replication and attacks.

I don't know if you think the current academic scientific process is a method of discovering facts about the universe, but if you do, the process of replication and fielding criticism is the process through which scientific findings become trustworthy.


Worthy of being trusted for what?




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