All right-wing discussions of IQ, genius, & even autism are designed to make you believe “intelligence” is not just access to education, asymmetric information, & leisure time.
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IQ is a racist, long debunked science and anyone using it either doesn’t know that yet (which means you can definitely still do research and understand the history) or has a vested interest in oppression.
I have a high IQ and I’m autistic. Thing is, I don’t care to ever bring it up because:
1) IQ is a worthless data point (it’s been heavily debunked)
2) I’ve received different scores at different times throughout my life
3) It’s not important to me, personally
I spent a fair amount of time with those people *in real life* -- parties, meetups -- the common thread is that they feel like they are intelligent (and they mostly are) and that the system has passed them by, failed to recognize their talents and promote them. They blame the left, they blame DEI.
The irony is that if there was some strong socialist message: "Hey all you smart, bright capable people, passed over for promotion, lacking in public acclaim and recognition, pay-raises and rewards, well we have what you want!" they'd be overnight socialists. But that's not the socialist message.
Now, if you could tell them: "hey, smart kid, yeah you, with the degrees and the Nobel prize-winning grandparent, I'm gonna give you a real high-paying high-status job, but only if you design and build the greatest socialist welfare state ever, of all time..." and 80% of right-wing whining is gone.
Anytime someone comes at me with a comment about IQ I immediately shift the conversation into how vital it is to develop EQ (emotional “intelligence”/health) because I’m not wasting time on debunked pseudoscience.
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https://www.nea.org/nea-today/all-news-articles/racist-beginnings-standardized-testing
https://via.library.depaul.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1270&context=law-review
1) IQ is a worthless data point (it’s been heavily debunked)
2) I’ve received different scores at different times throughout my life
3) It’s not important to me, personally
I remembered a good portion of the question : answer format from when I took it as a teen and in elementary.
…Those questions haven’t changed since then.
Therefore, they’re *SUPER* outdated.
My most recent answer being: “Isn’t that public domain by now? Why is this relevant?”
-- some Twitter bigot, actively malding in his "superiority"
And that anyone trying to make them think is the enemy.
After all, if they weren't the enemy, why would they be making you feel bad by trying to make you doubt what you *know* is true?
https://www.luminosoa.org/chapters/m/10.1525/luminos.145.c
Its all a bunch of phiny belogna bull shit