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High IQ men tend to be less conservative than their average peers, study finds (www.psypost.org)

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[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Also IQ is racist, better ask somebody

Is it still as racist as it was originally? Because IIRC it was largely racist because of poverty among people of color and the fact that people who'd had less nutrition growing up, would score worse. But I could be wrong of course, that's why I'm genuinely asking.

In my experience, politics has more to do with emotion, empathy, and principles than intelligence. Intelligent people can be totally out for themselves, or committed to helping others, and usually some kind of blend

I'm inclined to agree with you there. Of course one thing to consider is that even in a group of completely selfish people, the more intelligent ones may have a better understanding of how their own lives could be bettered by policies that elevate everyone, whereas the less intelligent ones are more likely to fall prey to conservative propaganda.

[–] Juice@midwest.social 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is it still as racist as it was originally?

Is capitalism still creating wealth inequality based on racial discrimination? Our prisons, which are disproportionately BIPOC would say so, as well as just about any other metric. While there is more diversity among the middle class than there once was, in the USA at least, structural racism is still quite urgent and prescient.

Also historically IQ has been as much a test of cultural whiteness as intelligence, so it isn't just that people who are poor have less access to quality education, but racial poverty is concentrated and cultural as well as economic. So a naturally intelligent person with a non-white cultural upbringing, would also test lower on an IQ test.

Has IQ changed qualitatively over the last say 50 years? How much has the testing been adapted to suit cultural differences? I'm open to being wrong but I doubt it.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

So out of curiosity I went and took a modern test that someone on reddit said is supposed to have a very good reliability rating (not that that says much). Yup, there were still some cultural/knowledge questions ("Which of these is a church most likely to have"), not just general problem solving and such.

Most importantly though I passed the test of not paying 15$ for getting the final result and instead googled what the percentile was equivalent to as it said I scored higher than X out of 1000 people. Perhaps if I was a white American I'd have scored a tiny bit higher, but honestly I'm very happy with the score I got, IF the test is accurate at all.

Edit: I also took another test and the vocabulary section was very much a "high-end school in English-speaking country" ordeal IMO. Most of those were not words you'd ever use. It was brutal, I had to go by vibes personally. More successful than I thought I'd be, but felt like an impostor lol