IQ scores are absolute BULLSHIT.
Yes, i have had my IQ tested professionally, and the tests they use, in my opinion, didn’t really measure IQ at all.h
For example, i was given the “tinker-toy-test” where i proceeded to build a fully functional robot, that greatly impressed these professionals.
They didn’t bother to ask me if i had any prior experience with tinker toys, because if they did, they would have realized that i was probably going to do much better than people who didn’t have years of experience.
But ask me to throw a baseball in the strike zone, and im gonna fail that IQ test every time.
My sister was also professionally IQ tested, and she got a very high score, simply for being able to pick up pennies and put them in a cup, faster than average.
They didn’t bother to consider if my sister had some other advantage, such as long fingernails, that allowed her to pick up pennies easier than someone with short fingernails.
long fingernails = high IQ
short fingernails = low IQ
Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
Anyway, i was given a high IQ score, which was very easy for me to want to believe, whether it was true or not.
I mean, who wouldn’t want to believe they are smarter than average?
But eventually, some things just didn’t add up.
If my IQ score was so high, then why am i always the dumbest person in the room?
Why am i always the last person to laugh at a joke?
Why am i always the last person to understand a new concept?
Why am i always the last person to see a false flag?
If IQ scores distribution follows a bell-curve that peaks at 100, then why does everyone i know have an IQ over 100?
Eventually, it occured to me that these fake IQ scores are BULLSHIT,
And then i started to wonder why they would give people fake IQ scores,
And the answer that occured to me, was that they want to convince EVERYONE that they are smarter than average,
Because once you can convince EVERYONE that they are the smartest person in the room, then you can manipulate and control them easier, and prevent them from ever coming to any kind of consensus on anything,
Especially if you can feed different “smart” people contradictory versions of facts, and encourage them to argue about it.
We are now at the point now, where “highly intelligent women” struggle to even define “woman”, precisely because they are so smart, so educated, so woke…
When there is any disagreement, the knee-jerk reaction of the people who assume they are smart, is to assume the other person is stupid.
And thats by design.
for example, its a common belief in the trans-sexual/trans-gender community to assume that they are exceptionally smart, and anyone who doesn’t believe what they believe,
“just doesn’t get it”.
in other words, we are just too stupid to understand that people who were born male can become female, by willpower alone.
It will never occur to them that they are in fact stupid, and that males will never be females.
Its you thats stupid, not them.
Think back to the COVID-19 pandemic, and vaccines.
Didn’t a lot of the arguments boil down to “smart people trust science, and only stupid people question the science” ?
Facts didn’t matter. What mattered is what we thought about the IQ of the person presenting the facts.
If we like the facts, we assume the person presenting them must be smart like us.
If we don’t like the facts, then we assume the person presenting them must be stupid.
Anyway, think of 10 people you know.
Are you smarter than all 10 people?
Are all 10 people smarter than you?
Do these 10 people presumably have IQ scores that follow a bell-curve, meaning 5 people have an IQ less than 100?
Picking up pennies or building robots or brainstorming ways to use a paperclip are not very rigorous, and can't give a reliable score. It needs to be spacial reasoning, pattern recognition, exception recognition etc at pace.
One thing I have noticed is Americans almost universally make claims to high IQ scores, and if this is where they are getting them from then that explains a lot to me.
Back when I was 17 I did the Mensa exam and scored IQ 136 which was at that time top 1% and enough to become a member. I didn't join for two reasons, 1. couldn't afford it but mainly 2. I couldn't trust myself not to tell people Oh yah I'm in Mensa, it didn't fit with how I wanted to be.
But since then, I have heard so many people who are so evidently not that clever claim to have scores between 125 to 145 and it is just not credible, having interacted with them.
One of the best ways to judge someone's intelligence is their "comprehension time" or response time to a question. Clever people can be observed almost immediately saying "yes" to a question and then proceeding to deliver a few sentences that contain unusual insight, and my experience is that it extremely rare.
Those 125-145 people are doing iq tests on the internet. ha!
My (other) sister has TWO PhDs, and graduated Suma Cum Laude, and by all academic measures is the smartest person in any room shes in.
But shes literally the dumbest person ive ever met.
She didn’t even know how men can get pregnant!
So i had to explain to her how people who are AFAB but later identify as men, are still capable of getting pregnant.
Instead of rejecting this utter nonsense, she accepted it!
Which is weird, because how did i know, and she didnt?
But even worse than that, is what she did with the COVID vaccines.
Being a typical science-worshipping liberal, she volunteered to be a guniea pig for COVID vaccines, and was enrolled in a scientific study.
She developed blood clots in her heart, and her brain, and wound up in the ER-ICU and almost died.
Because she was in this study, a bunch of doctors took a very special interest in her case,
So these doctors hemmed and hawwed, before finally asserting that the blood clots were NOT caused by the vaccine.
And my sister, being a “doctor” herself, decided to defer to the judgement of other “doctors”,
And to reject whatever her stupid brother says about vaccines, because he’s just an under-educated idiot.
So of course i followed-up with some questions, like,
No tests
No, no real guidance on that.
Nope, no idea what else might have caused the blood clots. No interest in following-up and preventing the next blood clot.
Eventually, she reluctantly (because shes lying?) claimed that the real reason for her blood clots is because she fell down.
Fell down?
You mean like all those other people who collapse after a vaccine?
Yeah, and when she fell, she broke her neck, and had internal bleeding.
And i’m skeptically listening to this very late addition to the story. Like, if you really fell down and broke your neck, im pretty sure you would have mentioned it sooner, without my goading.
And furthermore, how did those blood clots get past the BBB?
So of course, me being the asshole, helpfully suggested that she should take even more vaccines!
And im pretty sure she is still taking vaccine boosters, you know, because vaccines work.
Shes currently NEET.
Crazy world.
I did that test and joined London Mensa. It was full of pontificating throbbers who competed with each other for the dubious title of supreme intellect of all time.
They talked incomprehensibly about theories only they understood, I got into conversation with one of these loons who lectured me about how the subjective world doesn't exist, so I threw my beer over him. I never went back there.