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The Far Right Is Becoming Obsessed With Race and IQ (www.theatlantic.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Midnight@slrpnk.net to c/collapse@slrpnk.net

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Meet the new right, same as the old right.

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[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

No, it provably leads to a country that scores higher on an IQ test.

IQ is not intelligence.

[–] azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Can you please give a definition of intelligence that does not correlate with IQ? Because scientists have been trying, and as far as I know, failing.

Or I guess we can keep pretending that intelligence is fully inquantifiable and therefore we won't be able to quantify how socioeconomic background affect people's wellbeing. I guess that does have the upside that we don't have to face the hard truths of our world, that unequal access to healthcare and education does affect people's cognitive abilities and that the worse life outcomes of poor people being self-inflicted is a myth perpetuated by the ruling class to justify their continued oppression. No, it must be the IQ tests that are racist.

[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The fact that it's affected by environment is the evidence that it's not intelligence. Intelligence is not malleable. IQ is.

[–] azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago

[citation needed]

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