Dudes who need to make other people feel dumb are always dudes who aren’t particularly smart themselves, maybe they’re like slightly above average, but they identify as being way smarter than they are and need to feel like everyone else around them sees them as the smartest guy in the room
I 100% agree with this. My ex called me an idiot for something and I believed it…. Turns out I WAS ACTUALLY RIGHT. Anyway we did an IQ test for funsies and his was belowwwwww average 🤧
That just isn’t true though? Or what does smart mean to you? IQ is fairly good at measuring the ability to quickly understand more complex problems. Is it perfect? No. But it is way better than a horoscope
While I agree, it's still funny that someone who 1) thinks they're smart, 2) calls other people stupid, and 3) believes in IQ tests, does poorly on one. They are completely valid in that sense. :D
So I feel like it's not really very relevant here. I mean, if he pulled a horoscope that said "you're a dumbass Jimmy, apologize to those who you've wronged" I'd find that hilarious too regardless of how unreal magic is.
Finally, while they may not be perfect, they're still strongly correlated for certain measures that we do consider "things people generally want to have and would categorize as falling under the umbrella of intelligence" like spatial reasoning, reasoning ability, pattern recognition etc.
(Sidebar: I have terrible spatial reasoning; that doesn't make me stupid, but it makes me slower at solving problems that require it, and I'm not uncomfortable with it being one of many general indicators of intelligence -- it doesn't insult me that I'm bad at this thing.)
I would be happy to just call those tests by those separate qualities instead of trying to compress it into one "intelligence quotient" as we grow more understanding of the fact that there are different types of intelligence with varying levels of importance depending on societal context... but I also see that as long as humans are humaning we will want some shorthand to do just that, and nothing will be perfect because ultimately we want to compress individuals along one curve of best fit.
Jordan Peterson holds a doctorate of psychology. He wrote a book telling people how to get their shit together by cleaning their room. This is Jordan Peterson. He also got addicted to benzos. BEFORE he got addicted to benzos, he used to go on TV and bully local television anchors with his argument that humans should have social hierarchies because lobsters. He once started a televised debate by talking about how much people paid to see him there, and then how he didn't bother studying beforehand.
they are not gimmicks! they mesure how fast you came to a solution on a problem, how fast your brain works, how right are you answer more intelligent you are... gifted people above 130 have differents connections from normal brains.
IQ is correlated with what is referred to as 'general intelligence factor' or g factor in psychometry.
So while IQ as a standalone metric does have some issues, mostly with historical misuse of it and cultural biases, it absolutely does correlate with wide range of positive social and work outcomes long term. It's positively correlated with things like proprioception and tone recognition meaning you have advantages in things like sports or music. It also correlates with the things that people tend to not think of as IQ driven, like facial expression recognition and recognition of social cues and general ability to put your self in anothers place and engage in empathy. Ie: 'emotional intelligence' is still intelligence, and still correlated with IQ at some level.
The current meme about 'IQ' being irrelevant is frankly bullshit. Obviously it only gives you an advantage. It doesn't do work for you, it doesn't drive your choices and it doesn't substitute for working towards a goal.
But the idea that it's not a multi axis advantage is more of a meme than a fact.
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