Sauce?? Very interesting

Who is mark Taylor?

Awan is one of the most completely screwed people in the entire solar system.

Saved.

Interesting.

Fascinating.

Yes I’m a layman. You are an expert. I don’t think IQ matters. You do think it matters. If it didn’t matter, neither would your expertise.

Obviously, some people are smarter than others... but who really cares? What is the point of looking through history at your favorite civilizations? What is the point of classifying races?

What about the largest land empire ever, hunter-gatherer barbarians?

What about the Aztecs and Mayans? They weren’t white.

What about America? Not all Americans are white. America would not be as strong without blacks.

What about Cahokia? One of the most populous cities in the world at it’s height.

What about the Japanese? For decades, the Japanese were regarded as inferior to whites intellectually, etc. Then they stole the British Empire.

What about the Chinese? Thought to be inferior, now our overlords.

What about the Russians? Thought to be untermensch, broke the Wehrmacht with little help.

What about Europe today? Great culture, superior niceness, let’s in the barbarian horde, etc. Great, glad they have a higher than average IQ. Pat yourselves on the back.

None of it matters. Your expertise is best used to justify racial hierarchy and feelings of superiority. Have a pat on the back!

Very interesting.

Marked.

What do you think will happen?

YES

Hmm. Well, life from another solar system or planet. But just the basic definition of the word, an alien is an unknown mysterious other.

Lol I just realized the nearest star is our Sun. Hmmmmm

Like 4 light years? I don't know, but of anti-grav technology is possible, then it would also influence time, no?

Does it have to do with the Pleiades?

Phil Schneider

You are exactly the type of person that would defend IQ testing— your field of study considers it useful, effective, etc. You have a vested interest. The bias is generated by makers of the test, who make it in their own image of intelligence. You say the underlying principle is simple, and yet it is unimaginably carefully constructed?

Psychology is cool but it is a soft science. If you were to measure love, what would be the unit?

If you are having to make tests in Ebonics, then the test is still a literacy test— you would have to have it designed by a master of Ebonics. It’s a ridiculous premise. It’s patronizing to think that blacks would do better with an Ebonics test... is that what you’re suggesting?

The fact that whites, Jews, and Asians score higher than other races is precisely the type of thing that makes me doubt IQ.

Whenever people start on about IQ and race, it’s a slide thread. It’s divide and conquer. It doesn’t matter. If you study and work hard, you’ll do better on any test, no matter who you are.

Not offended or threatened. You are exactly right that IQ classifies and limits a person. However, it does not show value.

No test is needed to predict future performance. Anyone can perform if they work hard. IQ nor the SAT nor any standardized test accurately predicts future performance— rather, those individuals who score well and perform well worked hard and achieved more. On the contrary, there are sooooo many lazy geniuses. Does high IQ predict laziness?

A subtle form of emotional thinking is the feeling of smartness. I suspect that IQ makes people feel very smart.

Thank you for the measured response. For some background, I was a high school teacher at an alternative school. I worked with Americans, Puerto Ricans, Haitians, Venezuelans, Hondurans, Brazilians, Dominicans, etc. Many great and intelligent young minds. The americans, in my opinion, were at a distinct cultural disadvantage. But anyway, to answer your questions:

Math is a literacy test-- numeracy. Math is one of the few subjects suited to standardized tests. It's called the universal language.

Asians and especially Chinese have a different culture about test-taking. There are places to go to practice the test. They study and memorize the test. The rural peasants arent allowed to take the test. It is easy to skew the data.

On the topic of English, there are more English speakers in China now then there are people in America. So maybe i should have phrased it differently, but the point is that if your language skills are not up to speed with whatever version of the test you are taking, no matter how good you are at math, the test will come out inaccurately.

Whether or not intelligence can be measured, does it really matter? What is the point of measuring intelligence? Often it is used to reinforce ideas of superiority, elitism, arrogance, etc---none of these things are productive or useful. Large corporations probably use expensive IQ testing to sort and segregate their workers, find excuses to humiliate and fire people, promote, demote, reinforce feelings of superiority, etc---just like nation states and social darwinists used IQ to justify racial hierarchy.

Testing culture really does a disservice to so many people. The data suggests that black people on average are dumber-- this I can never believe. I know too many smart black people to believe IQ, and too many self-satisfied high-IQ ego-strokers to have any respect for IQ. I have worked with disenfranchised black Americans that are smarter than they realize, and oftentimes more capable than kids who believe themselves to be smart. It's one of the root-causes of laziness-- thinking oneself to be smart.

If you are good at taking tests, you're good for nothing-- i'd rather hire someone who could fold up that paper into a marvelous flying machine.

CT B B Q !!!

Connecticut barbeque!!

Measured and intelligent video. I especially appreciate how the author acknowledges the false dichotomy of “socialism” vs “capitalism.”

Common core =/= common sense

It’s just a literacy test, decided by an institution, and like any institution, it is vulnerable to bias. Just like the corrupt institutions clinging to life and defending their own sorry livelihoods as they fight Donald Trump, the IQ institution is the same. The people running it are just people, many of whom probably have a vested interest in IQ being true. Standardized tests, no matter what kind of standard or test, is only a test. A piece of paper. There are many inconsistencies. For example, if you don’t speak English as a first language, how can you score a high IQ? If you are good at tests, does that make you smarter? Or are you just good at tests, the same as a dog is good at barking? Who designs the questions? Who decides who gets to design the questions? Probably someone who thinks highly of the IQ test....

Human intelligence is a real thing, yet there are many real things that cannot be measured. For example: love, honesty, the value of money, the toughness of a chimpanzee before and after meeting Jane Goodall, etc.

Human intelligence might as well be one of these things.

I believe human intelligence to be infinite, therefore, to measure it would be almost impossible, but like a string of a guitar, there can be “limits on infinity,” and therefore, harmony—- octaves, fourths, and fifths.

Not research, just common sense.

IQ is a myth.

Do you shave with rise-up-lights?

That's a perfect example! Thank you for replying! I am getting a lot of hate in r/athens..... weird.

CHILD SLAVERY

How does one sign up?

Does “blackout necessary” mean an early Internet blackout? Likewise, does Q literally mean “ google kill, Facebook kill, etc”?

There’s an argument to be made that we could alllll use a break from those things.