I remember in elementary school, a teacher telling us the standard woke line about IQ tests being culturally biased - the example she gave was a "spot what's wrong with this picture" test, where the picture was of a cruise ship, and the correct answer was to notice that it was
-
Show this thread
-
missing its smoke stacks. The claim was that people from wealthy backgrounds are more likely to be familiar with what cruise ships look like. Sounds reasonable. The punchline though is that this teacher had evidently forgotten that the class she was teaching was a gifted class,
2 replies 1 retweet 16 likesShow this thread -
which we had all had to test in to with IQ tests, so we all knew from first hand experience that there aren't actually any questions remotely like that on the test.
6 replies 2 retweets 33 likesShow this thread
Replying to @kevin_bowen
imagine thinking rich people take cruises. oh for two
3:15 PM - 11 Apr 2021
0 replies
0 retweets
8 likes
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.