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Comment by lynx23

3 years ago

I disagree. What made eternal september so painful was lack of intelligence, not lack of money. It is only a correlation that poor people also tend to be less educated. I don't care if my chatroom is flooded by people with just a little money, but I feel it very much if average IQ drops by 40 points, suddenly.

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Cthulhu_  3 years ago

IQ points only indicate how good people are at doing IQ tests (and that they actually did one), it doesn't tell anything else. And looking down on people with perceived low IQ is elitist and classist.

  • spoiler  3 years ago

    I agree with you that IQ tests are kinda useless. Also ,I think its a misconception that IQ tests test intelligence. Taking the test depends on many external and internal factors. Mood, how rested and sated you are, how comfortable you are while taking the test. Those things in turn affect your patience and your concentration, and ability to resist environmental distractions, etc, etc.

    Often times experience can affect these IQ tests. One can easily warm up to IQ tests; I know you're not supposed to be able to, but it's totally doable. Do two ones in a row, and after learning the answers to the first one, you'll do loads better on the second one (after a break, so your concentration isn't depleted if you struggle with that).