I'll try to explain the concept to myself: IQ is the something that predicts social mobility (upwards, I presume). George Soros has much of it; his fellow pennyless Hungarian immigrant who waits on me in "Piroska" has little of it.
I proposed to measure IQ in a scale of H (for Human). Double H is an artist, like Cezanne or Van Gogh: he makes us perceive the world in a different light. Pic.: Afremov, after Cezanne.
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IQ is the ability to solve problems you have not encountered before.
Anon.
Yes. But HH proposes a different definition that is unrelated to solving problems. He says that IQ is a force that propels its owners to the top of the pyramid. It is a different way of seeing the same thing. Very interesting, fascinating. I am expecting to read his reflections.
Personal power. The ability to make things happen. Much more elusive a concept than mere intelligence.
We must engage the realm of spirit (which we can't do scientifically) to address this thing, which we wish to observe it beyond simply its results.
There is an "x" factor that keeps the matter partly beyond our reach. The eye sees not itself, and we have only murky mirrors
It is a different way of seeing the same thing.
Does he define it explicitly as a "force that propels its owners to the top of the pyramid" or is that the empirical manifestation of IQ, either one among many or the most supreme empirical manifestation of it?
I don't know if it's true. These days various celebs, movie stars, athletes, etc reach the top of the pyramid far above people like scientists. Obviously some people like businessmen and politicians who reach the top of the pyramid have intelligence but it's not clear to me that it's higher in degree, or if it's the same in kind or type, as the intelligence of unknown scientists, thinkers, etc.
"force that propels its owners to the top of the pyramid" is my interpretation. HH defines IQ as a measure ...that imposes class mobility. If I understand it, the supreme manifestation of IQ is class mobility, and capabilities like solving problems and so are necessary qualities or capabilities, like stamina. Regarding the problem of dumb actresses catapulted to the top of the pyramid, I think it can be explained as outliers, exceptions, in a statistical distribution of the climbing measurement.
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