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IQ is useful for an individual to asses mental degradation. It's not useful to compare IQ to others, but to compare your own personal reaults, after something like a stroke or an accident where brain damage may have occurred.
That being said, it needs to be a proper IQ test administered by a psychologist and not a random IQ test website
Again, no, not really. There are so many different kinds of effects that brain damage can have, and IQ doesn’t cover it.
Sure, but I guess that it’s just a small part in a battery of tests to evaluate the effects of an injury. I mean, it does measure something, even if it’s just the ability to sit for a test.
Sure, but so does a polygraph test. There’s a reason we don’t use them, because they’re pseudoscientific and misleading.
If you’re measuring heart rate, breathing and sweating, I guess you could use a polygraph. If you want to measure a potential cognitive decline in a single person, you can have them do several of these tests to see if there’s a trend. There is nothing pseudoscientific about using these methods in this way. The pseudoscience comes in when we’re trying to tie the results to truthfulness in the case of the polygraph or intelligence in the case of the IQ test. Or even worse, when trying to compare two individuals from their results.
If you want to measure heart rate, you measure heart rate. You wouldn’t use a polygraph because it makes no sense.
If you want to measure cognitive decline, you use a test designed for that purpose such as the Montreal Cognitive Assessment or the Mini-Mental State Examination. Cognitive decline affects so many things which IQ has nothing to do with, such as self-orientation, executive function, and so on.
It’s just not a good or useful metric for the purpose.
Next, you’ll be defending the potential applications of phrenology.