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Xerxos@lemmy.ml 5 days agoThe average IQ is 100. That is not a lot and half of the population is below that. I’m more surprised how bad our education system is in filtering out the dumb people. Someone who is ‘not smart’ but has good memory and is diligent can make it frighteningly far in our society. Not to mention nepo babies who are a different kind of problem
Good memory is also part of being smart, besides problem-solving and thinking under pressure. But yeah nepo-babies do cause serious problem.
Tho also iq doesn’t matter as much. Tests are specific branch of math, you can literally study for an IQ test.
Randomgal@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
The average IQ is 100 because it is designed to always have the average at 100%. If magically everyone became exactly 20% better at IQ tests tomorrow, the average IQ would be adjusted and still be 100.
Smart argument.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 days ago
“Half the people are smarter than other half”