• BillDoor@feddit.uk
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    This isn’t true at all. IQ isn’t some magical catch-all measure of a person’s intellectual ability, but it’s not entirely total quackery either.

    I suspect that academic success would be very strongly correlated with having a supportive home life, but IQ not so much. Maybe the gifted kids you refer to were the academically successful ones and not the high-IQ ones?

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      They once had me take one of those horoscopes and one part of it was a rorschach test. How is that not quakery.

      Another part was to have me write a short text wich fair enough.

      fill in mulltiple choise questions that were deliveratly obtuse and ambigous.

      The only part that i would expect to corrrelaete with intelligence was when i had to memorize a string of numbers and repeat it after a while. But even then this is an ability you can train.

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        You won’t find any of those things in any reputable IQ test. I’d be surprised if you found them even in a bullshit online test.

        Maybe you just had a particularly bad experience and it has given you a false impression of what an IQ test is.

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              You are the one trying to start shit here. If you had a more nuanced response. In this case, an example would be descriving your experience. You would get a more nuanced response. See the other guy.

              But im glat i touched a sore spot for you.

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                All I did was say I took an IQ test that didn’t have any of the elements in yours. You came back calling me stupid.

                Elaborate on how I started shit with you. Explain yourself. How the fuck do you envision yourself as being justified. How the fuck do you explain your perception of me starting shit with you.

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                  I posted several patagraphs you respond with a onliner i respond with a onliner because thats what you deserve.

                  Aparently it really aplies to you or you wouldnt be this mad. Im guess im sorry you ferl insecure about your intelligence.

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        IQ is bullshit in the sense that as a measurement of cognitive abilities it doesn’t really work, but that doesn’t mean the only factor influencing intelligence is social upbringing either

        i mean, say what you will, but i could have the most supportive environment on earth and i’m pretty sure i wouldn’t ever be the second coming of messi (or michael jordan for you gringos), same should go for newton, knorozov or whoever