I have had debates on here about various issues. One of the debates was about why Africa is always in disarray.
So I talked to a guy from Nigeria and asked him why?
He looked at me and said.
It's simple of why Africa is in bad shape. He said....
Too many difference of opinions of how things should be. He said for example.
In Nigeria. There are over 500 different tribes. With various languages and cultures.
I told him my doctor was from Nigeria to. He said... What is his name.
I told him.
He goes.
Ah... an EBO man with a smile.
I said what's the smile about.
He said.. No offense to your doctor. But we DON'T TRUST EBO guys.
I said why..
He said they are shady and are money hustlers.
I said wow.
He said there are tons of African tribes that HATE EACH other.
Basically he said it's no different than DIE HARD LIBERALS fighting against DIE HARD CONVERSATIVES.
He said.. just imagine if there were 500+ political parties all with various thought processes. He said how much in fighting would there be.
He said. it has nothing to do with intelligence or anything like that.
He said it's all about ego. Such as "Our tribe" is better then your "tribe".
I thought this was interesting.
If the I.Q. test said that you were an idiot (I.Q. <= 70), you would not be able to UNDERSTAND why your answers were incorrect.
When I was growing up, the severely mentally deficient were placed in "special education" classrooms in primary school. They were segregated for good reason. Even though they were mostly placid, they were about as conscious as a cat or a dog. It is a hideous impairment, and we should not blithely imagine it to be correctable.
Someone from the standpoint of I.Q. = 140 sees it similarly: The vast majority near I.Q. = 100 will never be able to "learn" how to be more intelligent. It's like height in a basketball game. Most of us think we are smarter than we are, just as the posting said. Maybe because as we happen to be smarter, we have a hard time understanding how it is possible to be not so smart. And so we use words to disparage people for being crippled---which is what it amounts to.
I learned this a long time ago: Whatever I.Q. I can claim above 100, there is someone out there that has a corresponding deficit. I have my brilliance at the cost of their dullness, because the distribution function is symmetrical. That's the way it works. And if it is a blessing, it is because the brilliant are able to produce more of more-lasting good, to benefit all. But it is of no use if the brilliant think of their brilliance as an advantage over others, to more successfully manipulate them. This is evil.
You don't win any arguments over I.Q. It doesn't change anything, except possibly your own heart. We have the ability to aid our fellow men with patience and explanation and encouragement. (It even works with animals.) Given why this site is even in existence, we have little cause to look down our nose at any other people who have strife in their lives.
I disagree.
Please learn in various ways. You cannot use a static number to tell the story of people.