Some
have estimated Einstein's IQ to have been around 170. Average IQ is
100. But of course no one should logically conclude that two normal
individuals, with their cumulative IQ of 200, together could have
come up with the theory of relativity. Nor could 3 regular people,
their IQs together being 300, deduce e=mc2.
There
are risks of measuring things. In this case, it is the measuring of
intelligence. But the measuring of anything has risks. Once
something is measured, one tends to develop a
false sense of mastery over it.
The use of data can make nonsense believable. When untempered by
common sense and a healthy dose of humility, the measuring of things
becomes its own false religion and can become unstoppable in
its production of unhelpful thoughts, theories, and actions.
The measuring of people in medicine is subject to the same risks. As physicians, we have a tendency to reduce our patients to fragments with a PHQ9 depression score, a hemoglobin level, an A1C, or blood pressure. In reality, we are faced with an immortal. A person made in the image of God. With integrated body, mind, and spirit. Much greater than the extrapolations of biomedical medicine.
The measuring of people in medicine is subject to the same risks. As physicians, we have a tendency to reduce our patients to fragments with a PHQ9 depression score, a hemoglobin level, an A1C, or blood pressure. In reality, we are faced with an immortal. A person made in the image of God. With integrated body, mind, and spirit. Much greater than the extrapolations of biomedical medicine.