Chronological Compliance versus Cognitive Capacity: IQ Testing as Temporal Architecture Selection and the Systematic Exclusion of Neurodivergent Intelligence

This paper presents a critical institutional analysis of IQ based admissions and selection systems, arguing that they function as structural exclusion mechanisms against neurodivergent cognitive architectures. Using the Equilibrium Ledger and Turing Theory frameworks, the paper demonstrates how psychometric instruments labelled as intelligence tests systematically select for institutional compliance while excluding interpretive and relational cognition. The paper examines the ethical, legal, and historical implications of this mechanism, situating contemporary admissions practices within a broader pattern of structural cognitive exclusion.