I have several thoughts about IQ…
The first thought is that we use IQ quite often to bash someone…
several people on this site have bashed me for having a “LOW IQ”
which is simply not true… as anyone who as read me will know…
I have written and I quote, “You are an idiot” which is a variation
on IQ… I usually refer to Trump as IQ45… most, certainly not all,
but quite a few people around here use intelligence as a marker
of some sort…
one of the problems, among many, is the fact that IQ tests
themself create issues as to their effectiveness…the very words
used on an IQ test can raise or lower an IQ score… If I don’t understand
the directions given for a particular task, I will not score very well…
the only way IQ tests can actually be accurate, is that everyone who
takes them have the exact same understanding of the words used
on an IQ test… and that is clearly not possible… so because of how one
learns and uses words can determine an IQ score, we can’t really use or trust
IQ tests… and yet in talking to people, we can gauge, for the most part,
if the person we are talking to is a higher IQ person or not…
as I am old and has had many different managers in my working life,
I can make some distinctions about managers… most of them,
are actually average intelligence, at best… but what sets them
“above” those who are of higher intelligence? why do “average intelligence”
people become managers and those with “higher intelligence” don’t?
the act of communication… being able to communicate to people,
is or ought to be, the highest function of a manager…
and in communication, the lower IQ person should be better able
to communicate to more people than the higher IQ person would
be able to communicate to… Plato’s allegory of the cave, is an
excellent example of how communication happens with an intelligent
person… they have “higher” truths but because of the nature of
those truths, how would you communicate those truths to those
who haven’t seen or don’t understand those truths?
You can’t… let us take an example, evolution…
evolution is a fact, no different than gravity is a fact,
and yet, millions of people deny or denounce evolution…
and those people create all kinds of “proofs” that claim to
show how evolution is in fact, false… now, if we were to find
someone who wasn’t biased, either way, and explain the theory of
evolution to them, they would most likely, agree to the possibility
of evolution… and here is why we run into trouble, by our
family education, by our schooling, the state and the society
and the culture impact upon our values, beliefs, hopes and dreams,
we can be misled into thinking that evolution isn’t possible…
we are indoctrinated into certain beliefs, and some of those
indoctrinations can lead us to deny as fact, something like
evolution…most of the arguments against evolution is
religious in nature… and quite often, the religious will use
“scientific” answers to discredit evolution… an example of this
is the argument of how evolution ‘‘violates’’ the second
law of thermodynamics, spoiler alert, it doesn’t… but only one
who has done some studying into the laws of thermodynamics
can know this…and therein comes the problem,
how many people have some knowledge of the laws of thermodynamics?
I would guess very few around here have clear knowledge
of the laws of thermodynamics… and most people here have at
least some college education… and should have some working
knowledge of the laws of thermodynamics…
so the question of education is also a question of the values
we hold and why? in other words, which values are we going to
uphold? Our values that come from the indoctrinated values
of childhood, from the state, society, religion, family, or
are we going to hold the values that we come to, in our
attempts to overcome our childhood indoctrinations?
Now how are we going to communicate the scientific
understanding of evolution to someone who is
committed to a religious understanding of the universe?
How do we communicate our scientific understanding of the universe to
those who remain committed to living their lives in the cave, to
the religious commitment to understanding the universe?
here let us take a moment to think about this?
Kropotkin