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Most of us love thinking we're more intelligent than those around us
Sometimes it's true and often it's not even more often between two people
There's a whole spectrum of different types of intelligence in one category of which you excel and in another you're severely lacking odds
Are you've seen friends or family post the results of online IQ tests to Facebook or taken one yourself and surprise surprise
Everyone's a genius one of the flaws with this type of test is that it doesn't measure the whole spectrum of intelligence
For example, you might score very highly on simple logic problems
But the test fails to reveal you're a complete sociopath lacking even the most basic emotional intelligence
But let's forget about all the reasons IQ tests may or may not be an accurate tool to measure potential
There are plenty of other videos to watch either debunking or asserting their efficacy depending on your opinion on the subject
That's not what this episode is about
We're going to look at some examples of how IQ sorting is counterproductive and inhumane
Let's start with a claim made in a book called the bell curve
The author's draw some conclusions about various races and ethnic groups
but to make it easier to detach yourself from the categories as you likely fall into one we're going to use animals as
Substitutes in the book the authors take cows as a sort of standard intelligence one standard deviation below them is birds and one standard deviation
Above them is dogs
Ignoring any criticism that these results were based on the deeply flawed ideas of scientific racism and eugenics
The more important question here is so what will answer that question
shortly
Since the books release its most outspoken supporters have been members of this group and have used it to justify
latent mistrust of the other groups or their assuredness of their own superiority
for example
The cows who read books like the bell curve are often convinced that there's a secret cabal of dogs that run the world
They feel threatened by the intelligence of the dogs and assume that they must be up to no good
Secretly plotting to elevate their status at the expense of the quote normal people
these same cows take the results claiming that they are on average more intelligent than birds as a free pass to talk down on an
Entire race or justify their hatred or xenophobia. Both directions are overwhelmingly negative
Doubtless the authors didn't intend for their book to be used as this kind of justification for intolerance
they instead hoped the results would influence public policy as
Practical as this utilitarian desire may seem let's consider the implications if their conclusion was that we should form public policy to benefit the cows
because the dogs don't need help and the birds are a lost cause
Think of the damage that could cause the United States was never intended to be a country for the few
It's meant to be a unified inclusive society of shared hopes and values if we were to cast aside a significant portion of the population
Because of some perceived intellectual defect, how are we any better than the genocide?
Already decent schools is limited to those assumed to have a higher intelligence and therefore greater potential
We begin to creep towards an Orwellian society where the quote intellectual elites reap the benefits of their supposed to piri
Hora tea while a huge portion of the population suffers at the bottom of the socio-economic ladder because they're not worth the time or effort
Because surely they're inferior intelligence relegates them to the most menial jobs available or complete unemployment and homelessness in a mostly automated society
Instead of this cruel utilitarian approach and assuming that the conclusions in the bell curve are even correct
the more beneficial approach would be to say
So what who cares?
Where you're supposed intelligence falls in this simple spectrum can a human being be reduced to a single number?
And should that number necessarily determine one's future
if you took an IQ test and your best friend took that same IQ test and the results showed your friend had a
Significantly lower IQ. Would you feel justified in depriving them of the opportunity Society for its you as a quote normal person
What if the scenario were flipped if you and your friend took the same test and you scored low enough to be cast aside by?
A strictly meritocratic society, would you be okay with that?
We need to disabuse ourselves of this idea that a rigid meritocracy would create the best possible future if you're a proponent of an intellectual
Meritocracy consider where you'd like the line drawn between the elites and the unwashed masses now. Where did you put yourself?
Every single person in favor of an intellectual meritocracy would put themselves squarely in the elite category like it or not
Odds are many of you would not make the cut then how would you feel suddenly?
It's unfair, right?
some types of intelligence can't be measured by a simple series of questions and even if they could
It would be silly to assume that a single could accurately represent the potential of a human being emotional intelligence creativity
artistic or musical aptitude social understanding
None of these things can be accurately measured by an IQ test
But more importantly than any of that we need to remember that the best qualities of our species defy quantification kindness empathy understanding
The desire to do right by others and have the same done for you
This is what we should focus on instead of segregating ourselves into smaller and smaller groups based on arbitrary criteria
We need to work towards a more unified future a future where each person can excel based on their own talents and abilities
Some people will be less talented than others. Some will be more talented. That's fine
That's the way the world works but to deny someone basic human decency
Because you think you're superior or you don't trust them based on a number that's not the right way to live
I'm sure this topic will provoke some heated discussions in the comments
That's great, but try to be civil with each other
And if you're here to show off your IQ scores, maybe you're not as intelligent as you think but hey
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