Ask HN: Mandatory IQ Tests for Politicians?

  • Who chooses which IQ test is used?

    How are the known racial and social biases in IQ tests mitigated?

    Can the people in power change things to use IQ tests which, for example, result in higher scores for people from a white, rich, European background?

    Why should we trust this process would result in any improvement?

    Who decides what is "soft"? Because I degree with you about sociology.

    As the old phrase goes, "A good rule of thumb to keep in mind is that anything that calls itself a science probably isn’t". Can we assume that "computer science" is a soft science?

  • How does having a high IQ guarantee one makes the right decisions?

    Wouldn't testing whether politicians are psychopaths be a better use of resources? Or have we already realized they all are?