Your IQ isn't 160. No one's is. Stratospheric IQs are like leprechauns

Re:Your IQ isn't 160. No one's is. Stratospheric IQs are lik... by dragonwriter on Thursday May 11, 2023 @01:45AM (#35898102)

> Focusing on EQ as a society, would mean that individuals would get better at understanding the said manipulations.

No, it wouldn’t, just as valuing IQ doesn’t mean people get more intelligent.

Society valuing innate traits doesn’t particularly make them more common (indeed, in a society were material success is inversely correlated with fertility, it may do the opposite); what it does is it gives the people with those traits more power and privilege.

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Re:Your IQ isn't 160. No one's is. Stratospheric IQs are lik... by remexre on Thursday May 11, 2023 @01:52AM (#35898168)

Doesn't the Flynn effect state that our IQ-valuing society is producing higher-IQ people?

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Re:Your IQ isn't 160. No one's is. Stratospheric IQs are lik... by dragonwriter on Thursday May 11, 2023 @01:55AM (#35898195)

For a while. And then the Flynn effect reversed somewhere between 1990-2000. (Not, again, that I agree that our society actually does value IQ more than EQ, but…)

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