• Godort@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    2 months ago

    20 grand for a full 100 point boost to your IQ seems like a pretty good deal.

    Like, for the price of a new car I can be smarter than Einstein and realize I probably wasted that 20 grand.

      • luciferofastora@lemmy.zip
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        2 months ago

        Not to mention gifted children that take coasting through school for granted because they can easily intuit the subjects there, only to run up against a wall later when much of life isn’t quite so intuitive and much of university topics requires far more rigorous practice and study than we’re used to, and suddenly we have to catch up on learning to study systematically.

        I suspect much of that could be remedied by appropriately guiding and challenging “gifted” children to teach them those essential skills, but even though my school prided itself on being one of the first with such a “gifted children track”, we didn’t actually do much different than the rest, and it sucked ass because we got all the overconfidence and none of the actual assistance.

        • KittyCat@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          0
          ·
          2 months ago

          I was one of those students in high school, thing is I also coasted comfortably through undergrad and grad school, and both were mechanical engineering programs. So I never really learned good study habits, but I’ve also never really needed them idk.

            • Eheran@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              0
              ·
              2 months ago

              Gaining 100, even when starting at lower values, would make you extremely smart. When starting at higher values you could easily be the smartest person on the planet. But since IQ loses it’s meaning at high values… does it?

        • shneancy@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          0
          ·
          2 months ago

          🥹 yeaaaa

          also “gifted” is a funny way to say “neurodivergent”, and now, 2 years after finishing uni and battling my adhd to try to find a job - i’m realising that 1) i’ve never known struggle and have the determination of a water bottle, most likely because school required little to no effort for me to do good 2) the job market is full of lies, manipulation, and bullshit, and i’m used to the academia’s world of like, saying what you mean and being honest? 3) i wish i got to lose like 40IQ points so i could be a happy himbo doing sports or welding or something idc 4) your IQ means nothing, it’s a metric of “potential” and i’m so fucking tired of hearing about how much potential i have

          • itsralC@lemm.ee
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            0
            ·
            2 months ago

            I don’t disagree with your comment, but

            also “gifted” is a funny way to say “neurodivergent”

            This is not true.

  • Etterra@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    2 months ago

    Translation: since your pseudoscientificly determined IQ is 85, you’re too stupid to realize that being in the top “84th percentile” means that you’re an idiot that’s in the bottom 16%

    But if you give us $200 we can give you a slightly higher number so you can feel “smarter” lol

    • Eheran@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      2 months ago

      Also, that graph is way off. Standard deviation is 15 IQ points, not 40 it whatever that graph shows. 70 to 130 should be almost everyone.

  • tourist@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    2 months ago

    $3 worth of coffee will give you at least 2 more IQ points

    $0 PDF on how to cheese IQ tests could probably give you more

  • Nikls94@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    edit-2
    2 months ago

    “Dude, there’s 8.2 billion people on earth. You’re part of the dumbest 1.2 billion. There’s more people smarter than you than there were people alive globally in 2010.”

    • some dude on the internet