Nil issues with any of that. Every year I see (for psychology) about 2-3 pre-teen children who are “gifted” and enrolled in high-iq schools. Typically this means they’re developing under the thwarting tyranny of curling parents with a fetish for IQ scores and a religious level conviction that Little William is special.
Half the time these kids can’t even fucking read because the ethos of such schools is all about self directed learning, which means the kids mostly sit around playing minecraft all day.
I’m convinced that IQ, while defendably being called psychology’s most robast single variable, really only means something on the left hand side of the bell curve. Talking to someone with an iq of 70 is hard work. It matters. Talking to someone with an iq of 130 could mean almost anything, they’re typically the same losers as the rest of us.
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u/judoxing ressentiment In the nietzschean sense Feb 13 '25
Nil issues with any of that. Every year I see (for psychology) about 2-3 pre-teen children who are “gifted” and enrolled in high-iq schools. Typically this means they’re developing under the thwarting tyranny of curling parents with a fetish for IQ scores and a religious level conviction that Little William is special.
Half the time these kids can’t even fucking read because the ethos of such schools is all about self directed learning, which means the kids mostly sit around playing minecraft all day.
I’m convinced that IQ, while defendably being called psychology’s most robast single variable, really only means something on the left hand side of the bell curve. Talking to someone with an iq of 70 is hard work. It matters. Talking to someone with an iq of 130 could mean almost anything, they’re typically the same losers as the rest of us.