Don’t drag me into this.
I just said that IQ scores are bollocks.
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jonbob loves you, Tue 7 Apr 2026, 18:14,
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Sorry
it was invisiblewizard who made that point, though mentioning iq is like an open invitation for huw and tony to float their racist theories
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 8 Apr 2026, 0:24,
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I have to disagree
At the end of the day an IQ test is just 'a bunch of questions' and your IQ score is 'how many questions you can answer in a fixed time' normalised so that the score of the average person is 100. Some people get over 100, and we call those people smarter, some people get less, and we are not allowed to call those people anything. We used to have names, but they all got co-opted.
We can discuss the questions themselves, and whether other questions could be more 'culture and knowledge' free so they would measure without cultural bias, or avoid being more of a memory test than an intelligence test, but the basic concept of 'smarter people get more questions correct in a fixed time compared to people who are not smart' seems pretty solid to me.
In modern parlance, a high IQ is synonymous with being smart. Should we get rid of all words that say one person is smarter than some other person because "It's all bollocks"? Do we all get a gold star for participating?
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Wed 8 Apr 2026, 11:10,
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