gwern comments on Is g a measure of ability to absorb information in a non-inductive way? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 05 July 2011 02:25:49PM 1 point [-]

Linguistic information isn't much better, because that sounds like 'crystallized' intelligence as opposed to 'fluid' intelligence, where the most common tests - the matrix tests - make a determined effort to avoid anything even remotely like verbal or linguistic material.