• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    8 hours ago

    IQ is pretty much a bullshit measure that largely correllates to education and economic standing than anything else. There isn’t some grand variance in intelligence, actually, what’s at play is competing class interests and socioeconomic factors determining diet and access to education.

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        8 hours ago

        IQ is generally bullshit. It tests how well people can take specific tests, it doesn’t correspond to actual intelligence, and people are far closer in that regard than they like to imagine.

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          5 hours ago

          the iq test is indeed BS, and was built on hatefulness and eugenics - is there an alternative to the iq test? i was thinking of the sat.

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      9 hours ago

      So if everybody is well-fed and educated, we could use it to let only the most intelligent people vote?