• @Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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      88 months ago

      The flawed metric racists use to claim they are somehow superior?

      There is a reason why it isn’t standard practice and only covers certain topics. It can measure some general knowledge, but is in no way indictment to the actual intelligence of a person.

      • Anna
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        8 months ago

        Yes I know the origins of IQ Tests and how it was used for justifying eugenics in USA and how Hitler got inspired by it. But I ment it as a joke to the original comment asking how to measure intelligence. And anyway who believes in a number on piece of paper we all only believe in how much upvotes we can get on Lemmy.

    • adderaline
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      38 months ago

      somebody talking about their IQ would be a major red flag for me lol

      • Anna
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        18 months ago

        Is it OK if they mention that their IQ is less than 0 Kelvin.

        • adderaline
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          28 months ago

          some healthy self-deprecation is definitely nice, but the eldritch implications of somebody representing their intelligence as convertible to a temperature value transgressing thermodynamic law intrigue me more.

      • @badelf@lemmy.ml
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        18 months ago

        I’m theoretically Mensa qualified but when I met some I turned away. My sense of what’s fun and creative did not align. At all.