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[–] [email protected] 141 points 2 months ago (2 children)

“Heels up Harris”?

These people need their ideology wiped from society.

[–] [email protected] 99 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Hillary was right. The entire MAGA movement is just a basket of deplorables.

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[–] [email protected] 91 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Don't try the test, I gave it a shot and it charges ten bucks for your results, which I think knocks twenty iq points off.

I got 138 on another test which I think brings it to 118 after I fell for this, probably still an overestimate.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (3 children)

You could go to your psychiatrists office. I had to be tested on 2 different forms of IQ for my ADHD diagnosis to be official.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ah it's not that important, I was just curious what number I'd get. I know I'm an idiot 😁

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

Based on their testing I'm simultaneously a genius and an idiot by different metrics. Lol. I need to find that paper in my medical records.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

Yup. The scam goes you take the test out of curiosity, its probably not terribly accurate, but then they offer “results” after trying to make you sound smart, with things like “insights”

There’s nothing significant past it. They phrased it that way to stroke dumb people’s ego,

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago

You can tell from the check mark...

[–] [email protected] 74 points 2 months ago (6 children)

IQ is not an objective measure of intelligence, because intelligence is colloquial and subjective. If I told you I invented an instrument that could objectively score every human on their beauty, you'd see the problem right away.

IQ was a project of Eugenics. It's trash science.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 months ago (5 children)

IQ is useful for an individual to asses mental degradation. It's not useful to compare IQ to others, but to compare your own personal reaults, after something like a stroke or an accident where brain damage may have occurred.

That being said, it needs to be a proper IQ test administered by a psychologist and not a random IQ test website

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (7 children)

IQ is a basic tool that allows a quick interpretation of someone's mental capacity. It's like BMI. Yes, some edge cases don't fit the general rule. However, if you have room temperature IQ, there's a solid chance you're dumber than a box of rocks.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (3 children)

No, studies on IQ have shown that the test design often assume something about the population taking the test. If you produce a test for British students in secondary school and give it to miners in Zimbabwe, then the miners will probably achieve way lower scores than is it expected. This is because the students are more used to taking tests. IQ tests have been used in this way to promote racist ideas, when the real problem is the methodology behind IQ tests.

There’s a whole book about this, “the mismeasure of man”, by Stephen Jay Gould.

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 months ago (3 children)

It's so funny, because these IQ tests are normally just ways to stroke someone's ego before talking them out of their personal information or trying to sell them something. I've never actually seen someone post a result below 100, much less below 80.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Somebody once made one where it showed the test taker a high result, but anybody else who viewed the result was shown a low result. I believe the way it worked was that the test gave you a hyperlink to share the result, but and then if the same person who took the test accessed the link, identified via cookies or other tracking measure, they were shown a high result, and anybody else got to see a result just above retarted.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

A+ trolling

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

I had a girlfriend in school who I deeply wanted to convince was smarter than she thought she was so I had her take an IQ test online. Just to help prove she was smart.

Got a 70. Didn't even know what it meant, kept saying she got a C which didn't seem that smart.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

Agreed, the ones I took for shits and giggles always showed high and I'm an idiot.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh look, this again. At this point, I have seen this "my IQ is so high posts low IQ" thing so much, I assume it is faked. At the very least it tells me that the account is likely just a ragebait for engagement account. They probably don't even care about politics.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So because I'm in a hotel room and unable to sleep I took that test in particular just to see, A, what the test was like and B, you know. Just to see.

Getting the results costs 10 fucking dollars.

I imagine the vast majority of people who obtain those results are on the bottom half of the spectrum.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Getting the results costs 10 fucking dollars.

Paying that money means you failed.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Isn't a score in the 70's borderline mentally disabled?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

Yup.

So, 100 is supposed to be the middle ground, and it’s called at 200.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago (1 children)

79? Did he sniff glue or sth?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago (4 children)

'Only losers care about their IQ'

  • Stephen Hawking
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[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

Alright, who the fuck rotated my french?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

In de Nederlands

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

G E K O L O N I S E E R D

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

Yall this is an ad

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I am disappointed that "Heels up Harris" is not a super relaxed group supporting Harris. You know "up your heels up on the foot stool and relax after a long day of work".

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Would actually be sick to co-opt that name and use it for exactly that. Just a group of Harris for President supports chilling with their feet up, fighting the good fight but not getting stressed.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

This guy is like Forest Gump without the acknowledgement of limitations.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Your IQ is really only a test of your critical problem solving ability. Its not a good indicator of overall intellect.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The guy who posted the screenshot has poor critical problem solving ability

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