its getting increasingly low quality freddie, step up your game brother you were doing great at the start
People are not equal. Some are better than others. Want a "sOuRcE". Look at women and how they view most men.
Edit: And no, some people are dumb and will always be dumb. IQ is 90% genetics. There's your "are we all equal in potential" question answered.
So you are Racist AND an Incel, got it.
Edit: And no, some people are dumb and will always be dumb. IQ is 90% genetics. There's your "are we all equal in potential" question answered.
And this is simply wrong. IQ is heavily influenced by your education, + IQ is a very controversial measurement of intelligence
The standard deviation of intelligence seems to be the same pattern between all socioeconomic groups - education raises the levels, but not the standard deviation. Also IQ is only controversial if you make it so - it’s a perfectly scientific field of study with a lot of predictive power!
literally incorrect? dont know where you got that from but afaik the gap between lowest and highest socioeconomic groups are an average of 6 IQ points at age 2 - aka when the education factor hasn't kicked in yet - and the deviation only gets bigger through time as it reaches 18 IQ points at age 16 - aka post-education factor. If i had to take a wild guess, those starting 6 points would proly be due to genetics and the 18 points due to the higher quality education
taking that into account, id argue that this so-called "predictive power" is based solely on the fact success is pretty much correlated directly to education rather than IQ since the former - if not develops - significantly enhances the latter
i had to pass a couple IQ tests (WAIS) and each time had alot of trouble taking them seriously because of how flawed they were. im baffled that atm this is the BEST we've got to measure someone's intelligence, its almost concerning. I also believe they miss the point and test mental ability (memory for instance) rather than intelligence itself - as in the classic definition of it (the ability to solve a new problem in the shortest period of time), not in that taxonomy sense it's been given that encompasses everything and anythng including mental ability. I dont believe memory should be included in an authentic intelligence test, ppl can both have excellent memory and be completely braindead
im aware there's more to it but yeah IQ's "perfectly scientific field of study" status is overall based on shaky grounds imo
edt: oh and they had also included a segment on knowledge, which is an absolute heresy for an intelligence test
pretty unconvincing tests all-round
Spoiler
Yes it is obviously true that people aren't perfectly equal in terms of cognitive or physical prowess. As you said, some people are genetically better at many things than other people. And even if people are better at differing skills, it probably wouldn't come down to a perfect balance.
However, I think most people are born equal in terms of their potential to be successful in life. Of course the term "successful in life" is a very ambiguous term, but I'd say everyone in the world has the potential to master a skill and to be successful within a certain field. Aside from the extreme outliers, for example people born with severe physical or mental disabilities, the average human will fall within a spectrum of cognitive and physical abilities that allows them to potentially excel in something in life. It may require substantially more effort and dedication for one person to achieve a mastery of a particular skill than it does for another person, but potentially speaking they can both achieve mastery in the skill. Yes, the person that has a cognitive or physical advantage has the potential to be even better than the other person, but that does not mean the other person is not successful.
WOW WHAT A NICE CONTRIBUTION TO THIS DISCUSSION RIKKERT HOLMES, TY VERY MUCH
