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It keeps astounding me that people assign value to a score whose purpose was mainly intended to find outliers in the education system as being anything besides that.

Or to quote the late astrophysicist Stephen Hawking: "People who boast about their IQ are losers".



I've never understood IQ tests. Granted, i have only seen the beginning of some of them where they show you those 3/4 figures and tell you to choose the "next one" ... I have never had a clue of what am I supposed to look for.

Maybe I am just extremely stupid. But then I'm a walking example that you can be averagly successful even being dumb as a rock, if you are stubborn enough haha.


The whole "Heaven is real because this guy with high IQ said so" is extremely cringe. They treat him like a show pony lol.




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