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It's not canceled. It's just not an accurate reflection of inherent overall intelligence but, instead, a measurement of very specific mental skills.
Even video game stats have the same problems though, your W/L ratio in free for all should be a lot lower than in team deathmatch, or if you are playing a support class it’s expected you get less kills per game so comparing a support player vs a fragger will get you errors but if you control for as many variables as possible then IQ can be a not complete shit variable
I learned about the issues with IQ long before "cancelling" was a thing.
Ok, but if you're gonna make a joke like that in a serious thread about actual IQ, you're probably gonna want to include a little bit more so people are able to pick up what you're putting down.
Really? I thought I was being pretty cordial... Oh well.