• Flying Squid
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    91 year ago

    IQ is a very poor measure of intelligence and mostly shows your aptitude for taking the type of test they give to measure IQ.

    You could be an absolutely brilliant Amazonian hunter-gatherer and you would fail every IQ test.

    Hell, I knew a guy- so illiterate that he could barely sign his own name- but he was one of the best fiddle players I ever saw. Was he smart or stupid?

    This is not to downplay the effect of lead on intelligence, I’m not saying it’s not there, I’m just saying this is a bad metric.

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      1 year ago

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