Mastodawn

the people's eva Jan 11, 2024

Say it with me:

"IQ IS JUNK SCIENCE INVENTED BY WHITE SUPREMACIST EUGENICISTS TO JUSTIFY THEIR IDEOLOGY"

It is not an "inconvenient truth". It is not an otherwise robust instrument that is misused by some people with an agenda. It is not something that's pretty accurate but that is complicated by societal factors.

It's bullshit. Bupkis. Bunk.

As Johnathan Frakes says in that one show, "We made this one up. It's a total fabrication. It's pure fiction. It's a made up tale. This one was invented by a writer. It's an urban legend... that never happened."

Don't forget. Remind yourself if you have to.

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@tillshadeisgone ooc: not only is IQ a racist fantasy, it's also a sexist one! They found that people with girl parts on average outperformed people with boy parts until they weighted spatial reasoning more heavily. Guess what it weighs more heavily now. Total dogshit racist sexist fantasyland hogwash number.

As an adult who does not work in the education or psychology space, I have basically only heard the worst people you can imagine talk about IQ like it is in any way a helpful number.