Message from @Grenade123
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g is general cognitive ability
GENERAL meaning it is used across almost every task
when you take a association or picture solving IQ test, it is not only measuring your ability to puzzle things together
unless you practice for that specific test, you will get a score, you would get on another kind of IQ test too
we can do this because g is general, not specific
it is true there might be devisions in IQ, but this has been far from proven, and if history is anything to go by this will just end up like emotional intelligence.. a feel good suggestion with a lot of meme value
just no scientific value
(EQ turned out to be entirely personality driven, something we have much better established metrics for)
a person with a high IQ might become a doctor. this is not because a doctor learns a thing and then it stays the same forever. jobs that stay static in their requirements are usually reserved for low IQ people
so even though a doctor with high IQ can 'doctor' pretty well, it also likely means he could learn any other task much quicker then a lower IQ individual
the issue is, that he needs to apply himself first
yeah people who tend to think iq doesent mean very much in my experince dont actually know much about iq but insted have heard a lot of progressive propaganda being spread in academia
which is another reason why you never see any general geniuses
its very likely our doctor could have been a great scientist/engineer/you name it too
what about genius generals?
but there just almost issnt enough time in the day to keep up with 1 discipline, let alone several
combat success is associated with IQ too
i think its still illegal to let anyone enter the US army with a IQ of less then 80
except the marines
"What do you call a marine with an IQ of 70? General."
i very much doubt sub 80 people can become marines
its a joke
nut that they are not allowed to try
just that they wont succeed 😛
the armed forces meme on each other, hard.
hmm could be, not my scene
so the basic joke is that marines are dumb and brutish.
that flyboys are arrogant and cocky
that Navy types don't do much of anything outside of go to foreign ports and supporting the local sex industry
there are a couple of exceptions to the general nature of IQ. they are very rare and far between. these people are called idiot savants
most of the time they are the result of some form of brain damage
sometimes birth defects
and they are VERY succcessful in a very tiny tiny field
like for example a person that can tell you the day of the week for any date you give him
BUT
he wont be able to perform simple addition subtraction maths
even though both of those tasks, for cognitive 'normals' involve the same process
now lets go a little bit more controversial
twin studies
you take genetic twins