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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.