Anonymous #1 1w

IQ measures memory, logic, and pattern recognition. While it’s a pretty good indicator of academic success, it doesn’t really measure your capacity to learn. If you had poor education, or have testing anxiety, you’re going to perform less well on IQ tests. They can only show how you think at the time of taking the test, and can’t show things like emotional intelligence, personality, your environment, or creativity that are vital to learning processes

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Anonymous #1 1w

Also important to note they’ve become less accurate predictors as technology becomes more and more predominant. But you’re right, you can have the burnt out savant end up doing nothing or you can have the highschool drop out with dedication and nonstop effort achieve at a high level.

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Anonymous og_beer 1w

I mean poor education doesn’t factor into your capacity to learn, it just affects what you learn

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Anonymous #1 1w

Right, but if you have had shit education you’re going to perform worse on an IQ test than someone who had access to better education. Even if they had less “capacity to learn”, they’d score higher than you

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Anonymous #1 1w

(Statistically, ofc)

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Anonymous og_beer 1w

I mean real IQ tests are designed to factor as little prior information as possible. It’s about how you reason through the problems with the information you’re given, not the information you had. The shit you see online is not like that. Like in grade school they brought a whole ass psychiatrist into the school and took me aside to take the test 1 on 1 with them

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Anonymous #1 1w

i’m a doctoral student researching curiosity in education & museum studies! curiosity is defined by stretching (seeking new information) and embracing (accepting the uncertain or the unpredictable). i can’t be sure that is measured in an IQ test, as usually it’s by observed behavior in self-directed learning events/environments OR just self-reported.

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Anonymous #3 1w

I’ve had an IQ test as part of a psych evaluation and can say it was not an input for my IQ score. I think it would be an excellent way to add nuance to it though because ultimately curiosity is one of the things that enhances human intellectual ability

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Anonymous #3 1w

Feel free to dm me! I’m super interested in hearing more about your research, even though it’s not related to my field of study

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Anonymous OP 1w

For sure! I’ve also been getting really weirded out by this sudden hyperfixation on IQ within social interactions as a form of merit or validity/reliability of an individual’s opinion. You worded it quite well!

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Anonymous og_beer 1w

hi i'm the burnt out savant i wanna go home

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