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[โ€“] thezeesystem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Low IQ is a type of singling people out who are not what society wants people to be. A form of subtle eugenics, make the "dumb" people not be able to do things because a "test" says there IQ is low, for instance someone who speaks another language could mis understand the "test" and people think there idiots when in fact they just wasn't good at English. This also goes for people who are absolutely horrible at English reading and comprehension of "tests" when they could be brilliant in other aspects of life.

So remember there is no way to "test" how smart or dumb someone is.

[โ€“] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

IQ does not measure intelligence, it measures different fields of intellect, mostly about logic, language comprehension and memory. It doesn't measure intelligence per se, but if you have a low score <70, you can be sure your life is going to be impacted negatively in some way, either because you don't understand other people, you don't understand the world or you cannot chain together complex logical chains.

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