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• morphballganon@mtgzone.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Or computational intelligence isn’t the same thing as skepticism

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  • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    … Or wisdom.

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  • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Or everyone is vulnerable to con games

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• outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And over-identifying woth it is something arrogant shit heads who are easy to con do.

  Not me though. I’m better.

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  • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wpuld you like to join my new society of people who are two smart to show off their IQ? You get a cool badge you can show people

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    • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Im in!

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    • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Obviously.

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• buttnugget@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  IQ is absolute nonsense that tells you literally nothing about intelligence or anything of the like.

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  • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s a very good measure if you want to predict how well people will do on IQ tests.

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    • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It gives you a good indication of their mental speed and memory.

      It is poor at measuring specific abilities or wisdom.

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      • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Thank you for your expertise, @WorldsDumbestMan

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  • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Don’t let you convince yourself of something just because you want to believe it’s true. IQ is not an objective measurement of intelligence, but it isn’t completely useless either.

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    • buttnugget@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s worse than useless. It tells you literally nothing about anything, plus idiots think it’s meaningful.

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      • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        IQ is a rough measure of short and long term memory, pattern recognition, and reasoning ability. Naturally as a single number its predictive power is limited in the face of the broad range of human abilities, but given a high enough sample size it clearly correlates with several meaningful things.

        Even accepting only the most clear correlation-- that performance on an IQ test predicts performance on future IQ tests-- to claim that this correlation is useless is to claim that there is no other activity performed by humans which is sufficiently similar to an IQ test, which is clearly not true.

        If you’re going to have feelings this strong about the subject, you should do some more reading on it. Your view that IQ isn’t some absolute measure of human value is correct, but you should understand how and why if you’re going to go in depth about it.

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      • hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Well, it helped me understand why people would very regularly not understand apparently simple stuff I explained. This happened on so many topics with so many people it was very frustrating.

        I don’t think that makes them lesser than me or me better than them (the people not understanding)… It just means I had and still have to work on adapting my messaging to my audience ← and that is something that everybody regardless of IQ should do.

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