The notion of IQ should be consigned to the dustbin and replaced with by nuanced approaches to development

BILL Brown (Letters, July 18) provides a timely reminder not just of the inadequacy of IQ as a concept but of its continued influence on educational policy and practice.

Notwithstanding decades of evidence refuting the notion that there is something called intelligence which can be measured (numerically) and on the basis of which decisions about future achievements can be made, IQ continues to have a strong hold on the national psyche to the extent that it stills form the basis of calls, in England, for more grammar schools, and is at the heart of such practices as setting and streaming in our schools.

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