I suspect that academic success would be very strongly correlated with having a supportive home life, but IQ not so much. Maybe the gifted kids you refer to were the academically successful ones and not the high-IQ ones?

[–] Farman@hexbear.net -2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

They once had me take one of those horoscopes and one part of it was a rorschach test. How is that not quakery.

Another part was to have me write a short text wich fair enough.

fill in mulltiple choise questions that were deliveratly obtuse and ambigous.

The only part that i would expect to corrrelaete with intelligence was when i had to memorize a string of numbers and repeat it after a while. But even then this is an ability you can train.

[–] BillDoor@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You won't find any of those things in any reputable IQ test. I'd be surprised if you found them even in a bullshit online test.

Maybe you just had a particularly bad experience and it has given you a false impression of what an IQ test is.

[–] Farman@hexbear.net -1 points 1 year ago

Maybe yoy just dont remember it well because you are not ver smart.

[–] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's funny is I got an IQ test in 5th grade and absolutely nothing you listed was in mine

[–] Farman@hexbear.net -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe you just dont remember it well because you are not very smart.

[–] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't know why you're trying to start shit with me but please go fuck yourself.

[–] Farman@hexbear.net -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You are the one trying to start shit here. If you had a more nuanced response. In this case, an example would be descriving your experience. You would get a more nuanced response. See the other guy.

But im glat i touched a sore spot for you.

[–] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

All I did was say I took an IQ test that didn't have any of the elements in yours. You came back calling me stupid.

Elaborate on how I started shit with you. Explain yourself. How the fuck do you envision yourself as being justified. How the fuck do you explain your perception of me starting shit with you.

[–] s0ykaf@hexbear.net 0 points 1 year ago

IQ is bullshit in the sense that as a measurement of cognitive abilities it doesn't really work, but that doesn't mean the only factor influencing intelligence is social upbringing either

i mean, say what you will, but i could have the most supportive environment on earth and i'm pretty sure i wouldn't ever be the second coming of messi (or michael jordan for you gringos), same should go for newton, knorozov or whoever

[–] PosadistInevitablity@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

Human intelligence definitely varies. People in remedial education are not there just because they have poor home lives.

[–] newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I know lots of people that didn't grew up in a supportive environment and have a high IQ. I mean on the level of "my parents/father (it's mostly the father) never cared about me and now I have sevear depression and tried to kill myself" level. And partially they were pregnant at the age of 13/14

And I did grew up in a supportive environment and am stupid as fuck.