Just a friendly reminder that IQ is BS.
A great tool for making broad diagnostics with regard to childhood-to-adult brain development. Also useful for identifying disabilities and neurodivergence.
But useless as a means of stack ranking already demonstrably intelligent people or sifting for "genius" intelligence in a pool with variation in education and experience. Getting a "good IQ score" is like bragging about acing your "Do you have Alzheimers?" cognitive exam. "Oh! He can draw clocks twice as fast as any of his peers! Incredible!"
Sure. Just remember there's a strong correlation between high IQ results and frequency of taking IQ tests, meaning that IQ tests can absolutely be trained. Yet so many treat it as a "general intelligence" measure, when it's more accurate to say it just measures practice at things the IQ test tests, and at some level some ability in the areas it tests.
Example article about limitations, and the this one mentions its roots in eugenics (i.e. racism).
IQ tests can be useful, e.g. for the reasons you specified, but the general public misinterprets them far too often.
Its conception and first uses were tailored to have data backing up the concept poor people, disabled people, and black people were dumber, thereby justifying forced sterilisation and human rights abuses of those groups.
In fact, the Nazis used a modified version inspired by the american concept of IQ tests to justify their genocide of disabled people.
You need to have low IQ to believe IQ is real.
I feel like this is satire, right?
Edit: looked up the guy, can't find his post. If anyone can find anything about this being real, they'll be awarded some very real Lemmy silver!
Old ass image. Theory is it was made by the company selling the iq tests to make people talk about it and take a test themselves
You and I are just fools, thinking “this has gotta be a troll”, but deep down, we know it ain’t.
Pfff, that's nothing. I can easily make it to the top 95% without even trying.
There has literally not been a test where I didn't score in the top 100%. I'm like seriously smart.
not sure but that description reads like it was written by a LLM
How many people think IQ is scored out of 100?
It's a dead giveaway if they say they got a perfect score
Well, they'd be perfectly average then, right? 😁
Or over 200.
How the fuck does that graph even works?! Shows the very left of the graph, then says you're in the top? Doesn't make any sense. Edit : clearly I belong in the top 85% too. I guess I confused % and percentile!
It says top 85%. In a room with 100 people the 85th smartest person would be in the top 85% but they'd also be in the bottom 15%.
I am going to believe this is comedy gold.
Top 85% could mean bottom 15% (+-1%)
7 points higher than Forrest Gump. Probably on par with James Comer.
I love LinkedIn users like that because they make it so easy for smarter LinkedIn users to stand out! 🤣
Where is @Ken Cheng!
