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"we have an EYEWITNESS that knows when the body was moved" - Here Karen is telling Aiden that they have inside info. They know what happened and when. Who what that source? Completely made up to convince Aiden her bitch. He fell for it sadly, and now he's on trial for his life.

The modern fixation on IQ is actually a great example of how totally the Chinese model of elite selection through testing scores has replaced the historical European model that prioritised real world results and achievements. It has been such a successful operation that it even has society's supposedly most intelligent dancing around flaunting their IQ results while having achieved nothing of actual value in the real world. In fact so powerful is this paradigm that if the right win the current cultural and intellectual civil war, rather than returning to an actual meritocracy, I could easily see the right-wing elites replace the left-wing establishment's gatekeeping tactic of needing a university degree to have an opinion on an issue with their own requirement of needing a certain level of IQ. And before anyone accuses me of cope, I've personally scored in the top percentile on IQ tests, I just recognise that no matter how good a human designed test is, the real world is the true test and we should prioritise that. Actually, even if I was low IQ and someone used that to try and debunk my argument here that would actually just kind of prove my point lol.

Such a dishonest, or (more generously) stupid take. Of course high IQ people ARE CAPABLE of "effectively communicating" with low IQ people--that's not the point. The point is that high IQ people "effectively communicating" with low IQ people can nevertheless only get low IQ results from that communication. If all you need is to place your McDonald's order, great, job well done. You cannot, however, "effectively communicate" a low IQ person into solving a complex mathematical equation. Or understanding second- and third-order effects. Or envisioning how other people might perceive a particular offer or scenario. HIGH-LEVEL communication is not possible with LOW IQ people. THAT is the point. Which, of course, a high IQ person would have understood intuitively and without needing this explanation.

I... Can't really agree. Now, this may be N=1 autistic pedantic hair splitting, but I don't have much of an issue communicating down in IQ significantly. For context, I have an IQ around 143, and I grew up in Kansas. I was WAY out of the norm, and have always had to find a way to bridge the gap to where they are. So I did. The short version is that instead of going straight to the conclusion, meet them where they're at and walk them to your conclusion in a way they can easily follow. Make each step build on the one before it, and you can get them on the same page as you are. You don't have to lay out the whole system, the bigger picture - I still make that mistake, and I lose them every time. It can be frustrating not to be able to have conversations at that level - so we have to find a cadre that can. I find the hardest ones to talk to are the 120 IQ crowds. They're used to being the smartest ones in the room, and often put a LOT of faith in a detailed understanding of a particular framework or theory. But they rarely go deep enough to understand and question the underlying first principles and assumptions. They don't examine the boundaries of where it applies and doesn't, where diminishing returns start to creep in. And they get VERY defensive when you try to have that conversation. I'd rather spend my day to day around the 100s - 110s, and find my crew of 130s+. Helps me ground in the normal while still giving me the intellectual sparring partners I need to level up. But that's just me. Everyone has to find their own solutions.