And what does the IQ test measure? It is clear that IQ tests do not measure intelligence, simply because the term "intelligence" is not clearly defined even today. However, there are different IQ tests and Gauss distributions from those that passed them. These tests are designed by psychologists and psychiatrists on the basis of their own questionable considerations. I think the correct answer would be that the IQ test measures how well the subjects correspond to the imaginary mental standard of the test-designer, or rather, whether test subjects want to play this game and whether they understands the rules. Just that. The same Raven's Progressive Matrices can be recognized and solved by a computer program in a split second. Does this mean that a primitive program has a higher intelligence than its creator? Some argue that “intelligence is the ability to solve problems”, but say haloperidol also solves problems, because haloperidol is so smart that it knows the approach to every crazy person.
The funny thing is that many schizophrenics, like the Unabomber, have a very high IQ, i.e. it turns out that they are superNORMal in their delirium. On the other hand, many psychologists and psychiatrists go to psychiatry under the influence of their own mental problems, and therefore the IQ tests they design show rather the degree of insanity of their test subjects. The most striking example is the MMPI test, where if you answer that you suffer from abdominal pain, then you will be diagnosed with "hypochondriasis schizophrenia" and will be prescribed antipsychotics, even if you really have a stomach ulcer, and from neuroleptics it will turn into a perforative form that entails death. Psychiatrists are not interested in your real problems. And if you die in the course of treatment, it will be written off for natural causes.