* First, intelligence is mostly cultural, not genetic. I know that's not a popular view in the US, but it's true nonetheless. There are multiple adoption studies that show how intelligence of kids rise as much as 20 points on the IQ scale, once they have a nurturing social environment. It's also pretty obvious once you think about the fact that european immigrants in the US were almost all analphabetic subsitance farmers, yet nowadays descendents of those people design neural nets and self driving cars.
* Intelligence (the difference between g and IQ is irrelevant, as both are pretty much defined by the same thing: an intelligence test) is not a good predictor for future work performance. Other personality traits like conscientiousness and neuroticism are, in combination, more important.
* Despite decades of research, there still are no language independent intelligence tests of comparable reliability to the language-dependent variants, so the actual measuring is not possible.
Oh, you're that guy.
>Who do you think pays for the unintelligent people in the welfare society the left envisions?
If there is one thing that is almost absolutely uncorrelated with IQ is income, so that twisted and repulsive worldview is immedeately shattered by contact with reality.
> I do find it rather amusing the left complains that the only reason they don’t win is because of stupid people
Show me where voting right-wing is correlated with low IQ test scores.
> bringing in the least intelligent immigrants possible
Ditto. (Because immigrants are dumb simpletons, the lot of them)
Frankly disgusting.
Also, Democrat policy making going back to Ted Kennedy has favored poorly educated immigrants from Southeast Asia, Africa and South America in particular. This is a fact and worth researching if you're at all confused about it. Also, these immigrants have been shown to vote roughly 4 to 1 in favor of Democrats.
"The left" doesn't do that, a small minority of the people on the left do.
> and then insists on bringing in the least intelligent immigrants possible
Even fewer (like zero) people on the left advocate specifically for “bringing in the least intelligent immigrants possible.”
Also, the left is just about as good as one person. How could so many people with disparate views that are often in conflict vote as a unified block with such great ease?
Sure, IQ is not a valid measure of a human being, certainly not one with which to decide to exclude those seeking a home.
> As a patriot
Equally disgusting, patriotism is just another form of tribalism and bigotry. Patriotism, aka nationalism, isn't a thing to be proud of, it's a thing that causes hate and conflict in the world. You don't choose the country of your birth, it isn't an accomplishment to be proud of, you had nothing to do with it.
Excuse me for saying, but this alone suffices to reveal your character. IQ is an unscientific measure, full of holes, doesn't correlate in any meaningful way to success, let alone worth to society. IQ testing, really? Not success, not merit, not services to society, f*cking IQ testing. I mean, I take it you would rather have a 170 IQ shut-in doing nothing productive with his talents than a hardworking labourer or a celebrated NGO founder in your country?
I would venture further. If I had to wager I would say you got praised a lot for being smart when you were a child, maybe even got a good score in IQ testing at some point in your life. It skewed your view of things and now you reduce everything to that. But maybe I'm wrong.
Sorry the science doesn't agree with what you think it should be, I will be sure to let the scientists know.
https://www.iq-tests.eu/iq-test-IQ-and-general-intelligence-...
Anyway, Wikipedia has a good overview of the main gripes with IQ: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient#Criticis...
https://www.amazon.com/Spurious-Correlations-Tyler-Vigen/dp/...
I think it'd make a lovely coffee table book.
Earning a lot of money is a good proxy for contributing to society, except not everyone makes good money all the time.
I'm an immigrant and if you were to judge me based on my first few years in America, then clearly you shouldn't let me in to America. Now, at a later stage in my life, I would qualify for "startup visa" but if I wasn't already living in America for past 10 years, then I might not wanna come here (might not even be eligible for this visa to be fare).