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goblin à la mode

@goblinodds

Apr 6, 2021

"IQ doesnt matter" but i see u all poasting MBTI, enneagrams, natal charts poast IQ cowards

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goblin à la mode

@goblinodds

· Apr 6, 2021

me: all my smart friends say IQ doesnt measure what people think it measured also me: i wonder if IQ says i'm actually dumber than all my smart friends i wish everyone would poast IQ but only the sufficiently spergy 145+s are willing to do that

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Jack

@jackinlondon

Apr 6, 2021

I remember 130-ish from school and for funsies ran the FSIQ test. Seems consistent. Surprised I got the verbal part above average, it felt like not being a native speaker was really tripping me up. (also how is vocab iq-related??)

QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

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vocab tests your ability to passively infer the meaning of words from hearing them used. it’s very g-loaded. altho obviously also depends on how much words you’re exposed to also

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That's fair. Didn't realise before but there's definitely a difference between what I do when I encounter a word I completely don't know (i.e. don't recognize any roots) in english, versus in polish; latter I'm way more likely to take a guess rather than give up w/o context

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Wait, do IQ vocab tests make up fake words? If not, it seems horribly confounded by knowledge. (Or maybe you could do a no-context vocab test and measure the difference?)

Jack

@jackinlondon

Apr 8, 2021

Vocab knowledge among native speakers is probably g-loaded too :P