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Zelandakh, on 2020-July-20, 05:12, said:

Believe it or not, according to the standard measure of intelligence that was almost certainly true at the time he said it. It all rather depends on what you mean by intelligence. It is an area fraught with controversy and therefore very easy to accuse academics in the field of racism even when they are doing work in good faith.

I'm not going to try to critique your first sentence too much. You kind of escape from it with your later sentences. But there is too much of a tendency among too many influential people to think a measure is the same as the construct/concept they are attempting to measure; and to use them interchangeably in all kinds of publications and communications