IQ isn’t a smart way to gauge intelligence | Brief letters

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I’m no academic, but I think I am intelligent enough to understand that IQ is a very unreliable means of assessing intelligence, never mind when it is in the hands of a biased researcher (

Publisher reviews national IQ research by British ‘race scientist’ Richard Lynn, 10 December

).

Joan Lewis


Saint-Étienne-de-Gourgas, France

• Of four letters (

10 December

) on Mary Ann Sieghart’s piece prompted by the Gregg Wallace thing (

Why do some men behave badly? I think I have the answer, 6 December

), two say it’s women – specifically mothers or female bosses – who are to blame. Sheesh.

Julia Crouch


Brighton

• The scientists whose minds have been boggled by the power of Google’s Willow chip, about the size of an After Eight mint (

Report, 9 December

), would do well to heed Mr Creosote’s fate in Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life.

Peter Hayman


Glasgow

• Has Kemi Badenoch finally proved she’s one sandwich short of a picnic, in saying sandwiches are not real food (

Report, 12 December

).

Linda Karlsen


Whitstable, Kent

• After Liz Truss and the lettuce, can we hope that the shelf life of a sandwich might be longer than Kemi Badenoch’s leadership of the Conservative party?

Val Harding


London

• Is the person who draws the lines on the Sudoku puzzle on strike? They don’t appear to have been “working to rule” recently.

Joanna Blamires


Canterbury

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