Pictured: Outlier (155 IQ, 1650 testosterone ng/dl) carries control (110 IQ, 800 testosterone ng/dl).
Submitted as comment to “What must his life be like?” in [email protected], and felt that it justified a whole meme to tie it together.
Not a forearm. Dong has a thumb…
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Last thing you know is when he cast iron
I get that this is from A Clockwork Orange, but damn if my brain isn’t wondering "What Flight of the Concords episode was this from?
Please remove these cutleries from my knees
Oh that’s just styropyro
Is IQ a legit measure?
My personal take is that iq is effectively meaningless. Measuring intelligence is a problem that is extremely hard, maybe even impossible given that what constitutes “intelligence” can be subjective. Some people ascribe value to it iq because it’s an extreme oversimplification of a problem they don’t want to think to hard about, and as a bonus it creates another hierarchy in which they can baselessly feel superior to others.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient#Validity_as_a_measure_of_intelligence
has a pretty good summary of scholarly debate on that question.
TLDR: iq has an extremely narrow take on what “intelligence” means, and ignores the vast wealth of what people consider to be human intelligence. For that reason most scholars think it’s nonsense.
Solid take, I hear more people saying this whenever it’s discussed. Although it’s a pretty decent measure for natural intellectual capacity, a lot of that potential isn’t wholly practical even in modern society. Good for studies, math, science and Mensa, not so useful for nearly everything else.
I would say it is a decent indicator for mental qualities that are considered desitable by the current performance-driven economy.
On the other hand, people can very well be considered intelligent and have small IQ.
Regardless of IQ I have never met an uneducated person worth spending time on. It doesn’t need to be traditional, but if a person stops learning they are uninteresting.
Machete don’t need no calculator.
