| SegataSanshiro said: Except IQ doesn't exist. https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/now-scientists-want-to-tell-you-that-iq-doesnt-exist/ |
LOL. IQ is just a number, measured in a defined procedure. Whether or not it has any meaning is up to scientific discussion, although a majority of scientists see a meaning, but still they differ in how much and what it actually says.
SegataSanshiro said:
IQ is false. It's BS. Doesn't exist. It's a myth. I can't be both clinically retarded and have the IQ of 150 at the same time. I have scored both. My tests alone growing up proved to be the sham it is. You can't measure intelligence. It's just not possible. Too many variables and types of intelligence that it can't be measured in a type of scale. A person can be the most intelligent and smart at a few specific things but very vapid in subjects some average people excel over him/her. There is no such thing as having a unified intelligence that can be summed up with a number. You can excel at some things and be average or dumb in others. No one is intelligent at everything but the IQ score pretends it can. |
As I said above, just a number. The two things are not exclusive.
I personally have a extraordinary high IQ and I am member of Mensa, but I'm very critical of how much meaning this actually has. Mensa itself defines their organization of just a club of people with high IQ, whatever that means.
I'm not sure if intelligence can or can't be measured, but I see many flaws in the IQ approach.
The general intelligence is also thing of scientific speculation, see here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics)
Generally there is not a stable consensus that it exists, but a small majority sees it that way. So it is still in open discussion.
And to excel at one thing and be dumb at others: I also see that intelligent people are not immune to emotions, biases or prejudice. All these things avoid thinking at all about some stuff, resulting in that a potential intelligence is never applied. So with these things the intelligent person can act the same as a stupid one on certain things. Intelligence only makes a difference if the person thinks about it.
Nevertheless, I posted that thread only for fun in the community, not to have any deeper meaning. 
Funny enough, the article you posted show the same correlation to gaming:
"the study discovered that smoking decreases verbal ability and short-term memory, but that playing video games apparently improves gamers’ reasoning and short-term memory."
Last edited by Mnementh - on 17 November 2017
