[Phil153]

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Stop with the off the subject IQ debate. Stipulate that the higher your IQ, the more likely you are to be right.

This is an interesting problem regarding our right to extrapolate. The Sklansky Extrapolation Question. I personally have not decided on an answer.

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It wasn't really an IQ debate. It was a debate about whether measured intelligence does indeed match with correctness on every problem.

Part of the problem with your question is defining smarter, since the definition will throw it one way one or the other. Does smarter mean more likely to be correct on any given problem? If so, you should stipulate, because you're almost assuming the premise in that case.

If you want to start from that point, then the answer is yes, by definition. The true nature of any given problem, where opinion forms a part, is unknown, as is the IQ required to solve it correctly. Therefore the only data we have is that Y belief increases with smartness and correctness increases with smartness.

You can't abstract away the hard questions, Mr. Sklansky. If you're going to use a term like "smarter" then this question cannot be answered without determining what we mean by "smarter".