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I wouldn't call the problem "shitty models" but models that aren't tried and tested in many different contexts. We know about how the model of IQ works a lot better than how a new model of intelligence works that a new researcher creates for his PHD thesis.
Once you think that it's good to have a single metric for intelligence because it helps you to make arguments about issues like the effect of mercury pollution on intelligence, there are additional arguments why IQ is a good metric for that purpose.
Single parameter models for anything complicated are shitty models. Intelligence is complicated. A single parameter model of intelligence is a shitty model.
Do you think it's shitty in the sense that what the EPA is doing with it is without basis?
I think I am done repeating myself.