• BillDoor@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    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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      1 year ago

      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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        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

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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.