Phil@awful.systems to SneerClub@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 year agoIQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindlemedium.comexternal-linkmessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10file-text
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minus-squareFReddit@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoIQ is a relatively recent construct. My father (b. 1913) was one of the children chosen to calibrate the Stanford Binet IQ test after it moved from Europe to Stanford University. Having a high IQ didn’t make much difference for an alcoholic manic depressive attorney who could insult you in English, French, German, and Arabic. He became an embezzler who lost everything and ended up dying in my one-year-old daughter’s bedroom after his last wife threw him out. A few days before he died, he seemed to confess to murdering his first wife. IQ may predict other things than it was designed for.
minus-squareDCLXVI@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoWtf? When has IQ been purported to be a measure of how well adjusted some is.
minus-squaremaol@awful.systemslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoit hasn’t but it has been promoted as a predictor of success in education, work and life. The Bell Curve famously claimed that higher IQ people were more likely to finish education, stay in work, stay out of prison and stay married.
IQ is a relatively recent construct.
My father (b. 1913) was one of the children chosen to calibrate the Stanford Binet IQ test after it moved from Europe to Stanford University.
Having a high IQ didn’t make much difference for an alcoholic manic depressive attorney who could insult you in English, French, German, and Arabic.
He became an embezzler who lost everything and ended up dying in my one-year-old daughter’s bedroom after his last wife threw him out.
A few days before he died, he seemed to confess to murdering his first wife.
IQ may predict other things than it was designed for.
Wtf? When has IQ been purported to be a measure of how well adjusted some is.
it hasn’t but it has been promoted as a predictor of success in education, work and life. The Bell Curve famously claimed that higher IQ people were more likely to finish education, stay in work, stay out of prison and stay married.