Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year
by rpmisms on Sunday July 21, 2024 @12:06AM
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I will agree based on anecdata alone. I have a high IQ, but have achieved much less than you might predict based on that IQ alone--primarily out of lack of desire.
Even though on paper I may be high-potential, in real life I'd prefer to be normal, and for every one of me that exists, there's a 100 IQ person who has the drive and willpower to achieve things that would be considered atypical. Both of us are exceptions, but we both still exist.
Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year
by tonynator on Sunday July 21, 2024 @03:14AM
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You're clearly not that high IQ because you're not able to make the leap into understanding that your own personal experiences don't matter on a societal level, everything is averaged out. A society that is on average low IQ will on average be a low achieving shithole, and vice versa. (Barring say discovering a bunch of oil under your barren sand dunes)
Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year
by Brechreiz on Sunday July 21, 2024 @07:46AM
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Mate, you should try going out and talking to real people instead of a computer screen and see how they react.
When IQ is indicative but not predictive, I just don't see much use there. If I can't predict future behavior, success, or some other metric then I'm not sure why I'd zero in in IQ specifically. I have also found past experience to be indicitive but not predictive, and I don't need to trust a standardized testing method to review experience.