dude considering IQ as relevant just messes with my head.
I know I’d get above average scores, but I’d constantly be intimidated by the fact that I wasn’t getting higher and that their are individuals out there who outclass me at my self-favored facet of intelligence.
Could be considered a dose of healthy modesty to expose myself to it, but I’m insecure enough as it is. Therefore, IQ tests are considerably unhealthy for me on a psychological level.
That’s the emotional side of my bias, beyond that there are issues with the IQ testing system in general that prevent it from being anything but a game of loose approximations and a very faulty accolade to stand on.
My mom will occasionally go on about her 140 IQ and I don’t want to discredit her brain power, I know a lot goes on in their and she has a Master’s in education. That said there are a great number of things that simply escape her. Computer interfaces, mathematics and physics, comfort with bureaucracy and paperwork, she’s horrible with money and is a considerable materialist. Like things that she can have just for show. Love big ol’ fat expensive Jeeps that really aren’t very good cars.
Beyond that she is a musician and an aspiring writer. She has a high IQ but it is mostly in the realm of creativity. Unfortunately my internal bias doesn’t consider that as relevant as realms of intelligence that revolve around concrete rational and technical thinking.
I mean I know I’m smarter than she is. She wouldn’t argue with that. She only argues with me because I don’t show her respect. (Rightfully so in most cases.)
There isn’t much reason to need IQ scores. They have performance exams in academia and a lot of professions have their own sets of exams to gauge someone’s mental worth. Those are far more accurate, precise, and standardized in ways which are applicable to professional evaluation.
It’s best to just talk with people. You’ll find that even the most intelligent of people have realms where they are totally lacking. For some it’s emotional maturity, for others it’s the capacity to be empathetic or show concern for others, some have all the mnemonic capacity in the world and the ability to speed-read yet can’t do math what-so-ever.
The clout of an IQ score, whether high or low, should not be something that folks should live by.
I know PhD in History who can’t remember dates. Go figure? She’s highly intelligent and has an exceptionally gifted child. Still it escapes her to see the chronology of things numerically. She simply just knows what happened in a way that I’d imagine is like a big imaginative movie reel in her mind.
Exactly dude, what the world needs more than anything else is a major push in the importance of people just refusing to be mean. Be nice to people and just take the social bullets that they spit in response.
Bullying doesn’t end at high school. That crap continues on everywhere. Everyone wants to have the bite of sarcasm, irony, and the capacity to be snide so that they can feel cool. It renders them all ■■■■■■■■.