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The only thing I question about IQ is often these journalists and the intelligentsia claim to have a high IQ as one of the reasons we should listen to them. Yet, they are idiots. So, is the metric broken, are they lying about their IQ, or do they really have a high IQ and are just manipulating us?
There's no doubt general intelligence is on the decline. Outside of dumbing down the gene pool, I think of what is left, a lot of it stems from a lack of learning to apply intelligence though. My cousin is like this, he's intelligent, I can tell he's intelligent, but he has zero patience to seek a solution. If the problem is not solved in five minutes by the first thing he tries, usually being at best the first search result he finds, he's done with it. Every time I've pushed him to slow down, use his head, and actually think how things work and how to solve the problem on his own, he figures it out. It's a product of the phone generation, everything is just presented to them. They don't ever stop and think.
What is intelligence, really. It's pattern recognition and ability to process, organize and recall information you receive. But it's really at the mercy of the information coming in. Like how AI models become woke because of the idiots curating the training data.
You can be smart but if the information sources you depend on are nothing but government or woke propaganda, you'll just be better at absorbing garbage than the average NPC. It's why infecting the schools and colleges was so important to Marxists and also why the trannies just HAVE to groom children.
I don't know, I think IQ also has something to do with intellectual curiosity and the ability to see through blatant propaganda. A smart person is going to have an easier time recognising that what they experience doesn't match up with what they are being told. I expect if you surveyed the average IQ on this forum it would be above average, for example.
It also has something to do with personality, however. The denizens of this forum are also probably MUCH more disagreeable than average.