There’s a really seductive idea out there that people who don’t or can’t pursue certain forms of deliberate serious thought aren’t actually thinking creatures at all. It doesn’t really work that way.
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That screenshot rang true for me based solely on my experience in US Army basic training. We often don’t realize how segregated we are, in so many ways. My suburban middle class upbringing surrounded me with people close to the intellectual mean, my career does similar.
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It’s easy to dismiss this as bs until you’re thrown in a group with the entire 18-24yo male cross section of the population. Guys enlisted for student loan forgiveness with guys who joined because they need an institutional lifestyle to function.
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The screenshot may be true in the sense that it reflects the persons experience with inmates of a given IQ range. What I’ve objected to consistently is that it is informative about the general population that has an IQ in similar or lower ranges, specifically on two points
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The two points that are most important to refute are about the ability to understand and make use of hypotheticals and the capacity for empathy. It is simply not true that most people with an IQ under 90 have those deficits as described. The prison pop isn’t representative.
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I felt the same way when I first came across Aristotle's quote on argument by knowledge implying instruction, and there are some you cannot instruct. You cannot truly engage with people until you admit to yourself they are the way they are.
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My wife works with accessibility and has done quite a bit of interviews with those who are hard of braining and the greentext matches well with what the consensus on understandable text seems to be in that demographic.
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