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SneerClub@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 years ago

IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle

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IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle

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SneerClub@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 years ago

Background : “IQ” is a stale test meant to measure mental capacity but in fact mostly measures extreme unintelligence (learning…

Taleb dunking on IQ “research” at length. Technically a seriouspost I guess.

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I know mine. I took an IQ test in my early 20s and got a high score on it. Didn’t mean a whole lot for me, I had already dropped out of highschool, then I drunked out of college and wound up fixing trash trucks for 10 years.

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