Eugine_Nier comments on True numbers and fake numbers - Less Wrong
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If a proposed scale didn't agree with existing ones, it wouldn't be used to measure mass.
Of course. Your point?
This means that your comment here isn't actually evidence that IQ is not measurable.
It wasn't intended to be. Were you pattern-matching against debates with other people?
(Late reply; knocked out by a cold all week.)
ETA: Having just read Sniffnoy's comment and the useful article linked there, I have a better appreciation of the context around this issue. Some people have made the observation I made as such an argument.