There is no such thing as 'intelligence'. It is a word not a thing, and a word of a very high order of abstraction. But if we believe it to be a thing like the pancreas or liver, then we will believe scientific procedures can locate it and measure it...
...Joseph Weizenbaum summed it up by saying, "Few 'scientific' concepts have so thoroughly muddled the thinking of both scientists and the general public as that of 'intelligence quotient' or 'IQ'. The idea that intelligence can be quantitatively measured along a single linear scale has caused untold harm to our society in general, and to education in particular."
Technopoly, p.130&131
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