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Lumifer comments on Open Thread, January 4-10, 2016 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 09 January 2016 11:17:52PM 3 points [-]

Vocabulary is a good measure of intelligence

It's also a good measure of how much do you read (or how much have you read as a child). People who read books -- lots and LOTS of books -- have a very good vocabulary. People who don't, don't. There is certainly a correlation, but vocabulary is still just a proxy for intelligence, maybe not a good proxy for math people or in the 'net age.