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>>20198520
I ask myself the same thing

>>20054238
Less about the book and more about the concept of IQ but I think its always useful to keep in mind that IQ is meant as a measure of 'mental age', meant to test how much better a kid is doing on average compared to his peers of the same age. IQ 100 means youre developing at the same rate as most of the kids. people get all stuck up and judge their entire selfworth over a measure used to track how quick kids are learning. Its fitting in that sense since its essentially the same sort of uncritical mentality of schoolchildren extended to the whole of society: whoever gets the higest grade is the bestest, whoever is the lowest grade is worthless.

I legitimately dont care how you cannot solve little abstract puzzles meant to test children if you turn out to be a genuinely compassionate person that takes care of other people, or is able to make incredible art, or become a firefighter and save lives. you might even turn out to make a brilliant breakthrough in a field that does not require the particular skills that IQ samples by getting this g factor from a bunch of arbitrary tests.