Dbeda Forum

IQ is a very unreliable means of assessing intelligence

'IQ isn't a smart way to gauge intelligence'.


I'm no academic, but I think I am intelligent enough to understand that IQ is a very unreliable means of assessing intelligence, never mind when it is in the hands of a biased researcher (Publisher reviews national IQ research by British 'race scientist' Richard Lynn, 10 December).
Joan Lewis
Saint-Étienne-de-Gourgas, France

The scientists whose minds have been boggled by the power of Google's Willow chip, about the size of an After Eight mint (Report, 9 December), would do well to heed Mr Creosote's fate in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life.
Peter Hayman
Glasgow

Of four letters (10 December) on Mary Ann Sieghart's piece prompted by the Gregg Wallace thing (Why do some men behave badly? I think I have the answer, 6 December), two say it's women – specifically mothers or female bosses – who are to blame. Sheesh.
Julia Crouch
Brighton

After Liz Truss and the lettuce, can we hope that the shelf life of a sandwich might be longer than Kemi Badenoch's leadership of the Conservative party?
Val Harding
London

Has Kemi Badenoch finally proved she's one sandwich short of a picnic, in saying sandwiches are not real food (Report, 12 December).
Linda Karlsen
Whitstable, Kent

Is the person who draws the lines on the Sudoku puzzle on strike? They don't appear to have been "working to rule" recently.
Joanna Blamires
Canterbury

Source: Theguardian