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The past year or so I have been fascinated with IQ and the data / discussion surrounding it.
Sufficiently obsessed so that I bring it up in conversation opportunistically.
Believe it or not, I’m convinced a deep unfiltered discussion of IQ and what we can learn from it is at the heart of what is needed to continue healing from the woke mind virus.
Entirely too many broken mindsets and policies orbit the idea that all people are essentially interchangeable and that culture, education, and nutrition are more influential than genetics.
This is obviously untrue to anyone who bothers to think for a few seconds.
As an extreme example, the most well fed human on earth will never ever grow to the size of a blue whale.
Similarly, the most well fed and educated blue whale will never win the Boston marathon.
Our human genes have an upper bound to the size we can grow, and blue whales have their own limitations.
These are silly and obvious and indisputable because they are easily measured and without exception. They are also entirely uncontroversial because they are cross species.
To discuss and understand IQ in depth requires you to accept that human sexes and races also have measurable differences. This is a far more dangerous discussion, figuratively but perhaps also literally. There are many exceptions, but they don’t change the rule.
I was talking to a psychologist about the topic. They considered themselves an IQ expert, and so I knew the conversation was going to get interesting quick one way or another.
Unfortunately I wasn’t surprised to hear them immediately make a point that the test is biased against certain cultures.
It’s always that, or the uninformed argument that IQ only measures one type of intelligence…
She pointed out California case Larry P. v. Riles (1979) which prohibits testing African American students in CA for the purposes of special education placement.
I started to push back, asking to clarify how that was proof the test was bias. Their response was to insult my own intelligence. To assume I have no idea what test norms are or how they are created and applied.
I tried to respond to that, but they were already upset and made it clear they were finished with our talk.
Look, I get it. It’s not fun or convenient to admit that much of our success or failure is fate sealed in our genetics.
But it’s critical in the face of a delusional population to start facing difficult truths instead of denying them.
Else we end up with men playing women’s sports and entering their locker rooms.
