They’re good only for finding deficits. I score well enough across the board, except my sequential memory, like you tell me five numbers then ask me to repeat them back in order a minute later and I cannot do that, basically doesn’t exist. I’m certainly smart enough to get by so I don’t really care about the positive scores but having proof I had a learning disability was critical for me to get the help I needed in school. Being perceived as smart often makes people believe you have to be smart in every possible way. So IQ tests have their uses, but like Steven Hawking said “people who boast about their IQs are losers”
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marxismtomorrow@lemmy.today 15 hours ago
IQ as a concept was invented by a white supremacist Eugenicist, and hasn’t improved much in the years since.
It doesn’t measure Intelligence. It measures your socioeconomic status in the country the test you’re taking was made in and your engagement of academia..
So yes, you can improve your IQ. Study harder, eat better, go to better schools, and have more money. Also it really helps if you and the test giver are both white males.
CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
crogope56@piefed.world 15 hours ago
I understand, but why am I downvoted? I was just asking a question.
newton@feddit.online 10 hours ago
MAGA ?
Iconoclast@feddit.uk 8 hours ago
IQ tests are one of the most well-validated and predictive tools in all of psychology for measuring general cognitive ability, and they predict important life outcomes better than almost anything else in psychology. Feeling discomfort about the results doesn’t invalidate the test itself.
marxismtomorrow@lemmy.today 4 hours ago
If you disagree with someone’s assertions, bring sources, you low IQ low T soy boy.
Iconoclast@feddit.uk 4 hours ago
I wasn’t expecting you to start insulting me over a disagreement. You could’ve made your point without going there. I genuinely have no idea what you hoped to achieve with that.
marxismtomorrow@lemmy.today 3 hours ago
I could have, but what would be the point? According to IQ supporters you’re low IQ and low T for not being able to back up your assertions in a ‘debate.’ I’m just working at your level.