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Good advice
Reminds me of this
Sending this to lady_nougat [she is blonde, of course].
Remember how like 30 years ago, people used to think BLOND HAIR correlated with low intelligence?
And then the internet came around, and we found out that actually it doesn't - however, there are physical features that absolutely do, and people get super butthurt if you talk about them.
And then the internet came around, and we found out that actually it doesn't - however, there are physical features that absolutely do, and people get super butthurt if you talk about them.
@cjd @lord_nougat @vitalis @valleur someone with a 155 IQ indeed did get very butthurt at the mere suggestion that IQ was heritable. seriously. someone much much much smarter than I am responded with pure angry emotion at this terrible blasphemy. I asked her if she thought there was a connection between her parents being smart and her own children being smart. she said it was because her family valued education. 
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31The high end of the IQ scale is unreliable. It's fairly easy to tell if someone is retarded, but it's hard to construct a test that will differentiate between a genius and a Rainman type idiot-savant. Guess which one there's a lot more of 😏
@cjd @LawrenceGerald @vitalis @lord_nougat @valleur i have for a while now abandoned IQ, at least IQ above 110, to practice my intellectual racism with
looking for a new metric to use 🤔 like T, or your almonds
or maybe such a metric doesn't exist
looking for a new metric to use 🤔 like T, or your almonds
or maybe such a metric doesn't exist
At the very high end, intelligence even becomes difficult to define. What is Intelligence? It's whatever achieves success, however that looks. It's what copers call luck 😏
@cjd @LawrenceGerald @vitalis @lord_nougat @valleur or maybe "say nigger" and "do you hate anime?" is a masterstroke breakthrough of political technology after all 
@KLVAnt @cjd @vitalis @lord_nougat @valleur the person in question absolutely will not utter the word nigger. won't even say "n-word"! she is not a bad sort despite this, she was just raised by progressive yankee boomers. the saying of nigger is an important test I think
Tests for intellectual liberty, not necessarily intelligence but often correlated.
Also, amusingly enough, seems to filter out a lot of LLMs...
Also, amusingly enough, seems to filter out a lot of LLMs...
That said, I'm gonna take a WILD guess here and say this person's IQ is... Self Reported...
@cjd @LawrenceGerald @vitalis @lord_nougat @valleur The plus side to that: everyone above 2SD understands that no one at the Mean is able to comprehend anything complex, so they speak to the Mean the way a parent would speak to a young child.
Midwits like to say that the "geniuses" are too smart to talk to anyone, but the >2SD do it everyday, effortlessly. Their entire lives are spent practicing how to talk to people they personally regard as retarded.
The people most offended by this are the TOTALLY NOT RETARDED's between 0 and 115 who know exactly how much smarter than the Real Retards they are. They can look below, but they cannot look above.
Anyways, long way to say, the 2SD and above can self-identify, and they know how to display humility. A 2SD isn't going to be offended when a 6SD asks a 4SD for advice.
Midwits like to say that the "geniuses" are too smart to talk to anyone, but the >2SD do it everyday, effortlessly. Their entire lives are spent practicing how to talk to people they personally regard as retarded.
The people most offended by this are the TOTALLY NOT RETARDED's between 0 and 115 who know exactly how much smarter than the Real Retards they are. They can look below, but they cannot look above.
Anyways, long way to say, the 2SD and above can self-identify, and they know how to display humility. A 2SD isn't going to be offended when a 6SD asks a 4SD for advice.
My tested IQ is very high but I feel like a retard most of the time. What is that called?
@s2208 @vitalis @lord_nougat @valleur @cjd @LawrenceGerald Regression to the mean, or Imposter Syndrome.
Doesn’t every non-psychopath have impostor syndrome?
I constantly feel like an impostor. People pay me $125 to tell me their secrets for an hour. What the fuck kind of job is that
If someone tells me they figured out how to get people giving them 125/hour to sit in a chair, nod their head, and go "yeah", "ummhmm", I'm gonna say that's a smart motherfucker.
I used to want to host a talk show. This was before the proliferation of podcasts. But I’m not really telegenic.
I don't trust any of that media shit, seems like it's all a greasy pole...
@s2208 @cjd @vitalis @PodunkPotato @lord_nougat @valleur @LawrenceGerald @NoDoxGregBrady I get ya. I have a face for radio too. So i did radio.
I have a voice for silent film
@s2208 @PodunkPotato @vitalis @lord_nougat @valleur @cjd @LawrenceGerald @NoDoxGregBrady A profitable one
@s2208 @vitalis @lord_nougat @valleur @cjd @LawrenceGerald To touch on the Regression to the Mean (twice I've had this convo this week, which is unusual):
Smart people assume they're merely average and everyone around them knows more about some things than they do.... so to keep up, they never stop learning. In reality, only the smart people are driven to continuously learn.
Average people just settle in as they're confident that they know as much as everyone around them (they're mostly right).
Dumb people are also confident that they know as much as The Mean, but are hamstrung by a rock-solid belief that everyone else is just lying.
Smart people assume they're merely average and everyone around them knows more about some things than they do.... so to keep up, they never stop learning. In reality, only the smart people are driven to continuously learn.
Average people just settle in as they're confident that they know as much as everyone around them (they're mostly right).
Dumb people are also confident that they know as much as The Mean, but are hamstrung by a rock-solid belief that everyone else is just lying.
> Dumb people are also confident that they know as much as The Mean, but are hamstrung by a rock-solid belief that everyone else is just lying.
I know as much as the blue meanie!
>Dumb people are also confident that they know as much as The Mean, but are hamstrung by a rock-solid belief that everyone else is just lying.
I'm pretty smart and I also have this belief. At least as far as standard narratives go.
I'm pretty smart and I also have this belief. At least as far as standard narratives go.
Midwits are the worst. They were the smartest in the room, all through grade school, so anyone who disagrees must be stupid.
I took one of those online shits a few years ago... Gave me a 110, and I wear that shit, just to be a big fucking fly in the ointment whenever someone wants to characterize midwits :D
Self-reported IQ doesn't count.
@Paleface @vitalis @lord_nougat @valleur @cjd well, no, but how else are you supposed to measure it? I have my own sense of who is smart based on how much smarter than me they seem. I know my IQ and, while it's above average, it's nowhere near genius. at any rate I'm good-looking so I've never needed to be smart. lol.
@LawrenceGerald @Paleface @vitalis @lord_nougat @valleur @cjd > at any rate I'm good-looking so I've never needed to be smart
I love you. Never change.
I love you. Never change.
Physiognomy is real. People absolutely judge a book by its cover.
@Paleface @LawrenceGerald @vitalis @lord_nougat @valleur @cjd >Self-reported IQ doesn't count
"No, you see, I took a test online, and it said I'm literally 135 IQ. That's like a genius!"
I cannot tell you how many times I have heard this exact phrase.
"No, you see, I took a test online, and it said I'm literally 135 IQ. That's like a genius!"
I cannot tell you how many times I have heard this exact phrase.
>"No, you see, I took a test online, and it said I'm literally 135 IQ. That's like a genius!"
>I cannot tell you how many times I have heard this exact phrase.
Took one that said 140. Dismissed it as inflated because a website that only delivers disappointment won't generate traffic. Honestly, I place more trust in the Skeletor disturbing facts memes.
>I cannot tell you how many times I have heard this exact phrase.
Took one that said 140. Dismissed it as inflated because a website that only delivers disappointment won't generate traffic. Honestly, I place more trust in the Skeletor disturbing facts memes.