I asked for metrics, not tests.

Tests yield metrics. More quibbling. Good job there convincing me you're asking questions in good faith. I can really see that you've bothered to read anything on the topic.

You made a claim. The burden of proof is on you to support it. “Go read a book” is not a valid citation.

Yes, it is, when you're criticizing an entire century-old well-developed field with an abundance of materials online. At this point, the burden is not on the person talking about intelligence. Go educate yourself, stop wasting my time with your captious quibbling about whether 'tests' are 'metrics' (to point out your latest crap); if you actually cared about the topic, you wouldn't be saying any of this, you'd be reading Jensen's textbooks or hell, even a Wikipedia article.

So you think that asking questions to clarify a position is “bullshit”?

Given all your previous comments, yes.

So, in other words, if a large fraction is additive, then a large fraction is additive. Do you not understand what the word “circular” means?

I see you didn't understand the point of that. Think a little harder, and also think a little bit about what circular arguments are. (Hint: they don't take the form 'A, therefore, A'.)

You're arguing for a position by contradiction, but your contradiction is only one alternative hypothesis. That is fallacious. Your responses show you don't even understand what my objection is, and therefore all your attempts at refutation fall flat.

Sigh.

When someone says “if A, then B”, it's not very honest to quote them as saying B. And what do you mean by “I help make this website”? Does having a lot of karma give you the right to ignore basic civility? Was this website constructed by going around being rude to people? Or is that a recent development on your part?

Let me try again: when a newcomer and an oldtimer disagree on what is appropriate for a site, when the oldtimer was around before the site existed, helped make it, and is a major contributor by comments, articles, and karma, which is more likely to be correct? I'm thinking... it's probably not the newcomer, and that arguing that is astoundingly presumptuous of them.

I didn't say that I was dismissing all other hypotheses, only noting that of all the posters, you are the most likely candidate to have downvoted.

Nice walk back there. 'I never said he was a communist, I was merely noting he was the most likely candidate to be a communist.'

So to reiterate my previous question - you know, since you're totally not trolling or anything, and you're definitely arguing in good faith, and you're surely not going to reply with just some more rhetoric and attempts to shame or nitpick irrelevant wording, in this thread or others - what is your actual problem with these concepts? Do you have data which refutes the relevant concepts entirely? Or what?