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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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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Yeah exactly! The point is that we all have to do the best we can where we can, not that if one person can’t do something the rest of us don’t have to either
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It’s not a perfect quote, but I’m fond of “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid,” generally attributed to Einstein.
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I'm not so much anti iq tests versus I'm anti the swarms of goblins that use iq as a means to say colonizing Africa is good...
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