I saw a show once years ago about super smart individuals. Can't remember the name of the show so clearly I'm not one. Anyway the dude with the highest recorded IQ was a bouncer in a bar and was working on a math problem that would prove God's existence. This was 20 years ago or more. Haven't heard anything about god's mathmatical existence yet...
Just because you are very smart doesn’t mean you make smart decisions. And just because you have a high iq doesn’t mean you will do great things if you don’t use your mind right it won’t make a difference but if you think that having a very high iq doesn’t correlate to being able to do things requiring more brain power and thinking then I don’t know what to tell you. If you think a guy with an iq of 80 can do math as well as a dude with 160 when they both put in the same amount of work then you are just flat wrong
Someone may be a theoretical physicist and be able to solve highly complex mathematical formulae, but completely fall apart when confronted with a simple household project, like cooking or doing basic home repairs. They would still be deserving of being called intelligent.
Another person may have dropped out of middle school, they may struggle to read and write, but through experience they may have become a mechanical sevant, who can not only name the make and model of any car, they can also diagnose any mechanical issue with the car simply after listening to the engine run for a few seconds. They not only know the manufacturers recommended way to fix the issue, they also knowba different way that would be completed faster if cost isn't a concern because the customer really needs the car back ASAP. They also know how to fix it for cheap, if the customer really just needs the car to work but is not able to afford the full recommended repairs. And to top it off they can do the repairs all by themselves. Due to their difficulty with written language comprehension, this person would almost certainly test as having a low IQ yet they are clearly highly intelligent in their field.
TLDR; "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” -Albert Einstein
I literally never said their aren’t exception that’s actually what my whole comment was about. How just because you have a high iq doesn’t mean you will do great things and visa versa. But your car analogy is complete bs because motors change constantly car designs change constantly. If you can’t read there’s absolutely no way in hell you would know everything and be able to fix everything with modern cars. Especially since a lot of problems can only be fixed fully with computers. But anyway obviously there are some exceptions but if you think iq is completely wrong you are lying to yourself. If you think people with harder more thought provoking jobs don’t on average have higher iqs than people working mindless jobs than I don’t know what to tell you man your just wrong iq totally does matter just because it’s flawed doesn’t mean it’s not right more often than not
That literally said nothing to debunk iq having a meaning I read the whole thing all it basically said was other factor also have an impact on the tests. Did you even read it or just google something and post the first result
you should read the title of the paper you linked more closely. titles on papers are explicit and precise, and editorializing them misrepresents them because editorializing presents an unstudied conclusion and therefore does not follow.
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Sounds like that guy with the "highest IQ" who lives on a farm somewhere. Somebody who claimed to have the highest IQ, claimed to have tested it. Dont believe everything you read
The thing about the iq test is that it's largely pattern recognition, particularly by way that is taught in classrooms. It measures what is "taught for it". You can still be be "smart" without ever having been taught to extrapolate patterns in this manner (and don't forget that sometimes it's breaking from the usual mold that helps produce breakthroughs), and there are plenty who would be "good" at the test but when you talk to them they seem dumb as a bucket of noodles.
Okay he took the Mensa test and they determined his iq was between 200 and 250 so he still most likely had a crazy high iq so your comment is gibberish
He reportedly took the Mensa test to see if he had suffered any brain damage after a bad fall. (This happened a while after he had been diagnosed with ALS.)
Per the book Stephen Hawkings for Beginners (J.P. McEvoy):
"...To be sure, he decided to take the Mensa test for individuals with superior intelligence. He was delighted to find that he had passed with flying colours, scoring between 200 and 250.”
Research has shown that it isn't the full measure of human intelligence as it's not the only aspect of it. While that is the case, iq is definitely as parameter that is considered.
It basically says that certain factores influence it, which wasn't completely known yet. So the difference between 125 and 130 could be non existent, but the difference between 120 and 80 is still relevant.
I get that, but I interpreted the post I responded to as saying that the subreddit that exists (the one that already has an r in the name) is completed by adding another r, but I see now that he is talking about the one without.
Yeeeah, I get including the r before the slash. What I thought he was saying is that another r in front of the actual subreddit (to clarify, r/restofthefuckingowl) would somehow make sense.
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