90% of the time if you tell a dsa guy who makes 80k a year and has a masters degree to read theory his response is to invent a hypothetical person who is literally incapable of studying theory and then act concerned on their behalf and i have to admire that commitment to laziness
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idk that was the test result. Would you be less offended if i said he read at a 2nd grade level or is that also unwoke
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Nah just lots of Marxist think IQ test are ableist or settler colonial
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That’s definitely reasonable, I guess I just don’t know any other metrics I could use to convey my point
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Imo it’s radlib to be vehemently anti IQ tests
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Considering what we know about how there are multiple areas of intelligence, many of which IQ tests don’t test for, and the fact that IQ tests are heavily geared toward native English speakers, IQ composite scores are more or less meaningless
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It’s sort of a waste of time to be like “IQ SCORES ARE THE MOST ABLEIST RACIST MEASURE” but it is worth noting they’re not particularly specific or accurate and they have been used to justify eugenics. In your example the reading at a 2nd grade level bit is more relevant anyway
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I mean in my brother’s case they initially figured he would not be able to work and would be totally depended but he has awesome spatial reasoning, ended up being a star baseball pitcher in school and now has a job in city maintenance and does great so that definitely makes sense
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yeah, on the opposite end I have decent short term memory recall and am super language-oriented so I got a 135 score which is like the bottom threshold of genius level but my spatial reasoning is crap so I struggle to do things like hang a picture straight
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