lol I'm kind of understanding where the others are coming from with thinking this is bait but I don't think the OP is coming from a bad place. How do we even measure intelligence? Because you can have somebody who is completely fucking dumb in every capacity but if they've worked hard at something very specialised they would seem like a 200+ IQ genius if you didn't talk to them about anything else.

There are definitely different types of intelligence I mean a great one to look at which schools and traditional education refuse to acknowledge is street smarts. You put some white guy who had the misfortune of growing up in the 'hood' for example and you'd think he was a navy seal with all the different tells he can spot about a person but it's not because he was taught that it's because he grew up in a rough environment and learned body language reading out of a need to survive.

That's a form of intelligence that can't really be measured and it's something that I'm thinking about myself. IQ tests? Okay, sure, but what do they really prove exactly? Even if I satisfied my curiosity finally and went to get an IQ test and I did get something high at the end of the day it just seems like another dick measuring contest.

lol I'm kind of understanding where the others are coming from with thinking this is bait but I don't think the OP is coming from a bad place. How do we even measure intelligence? Because you can have somebody who is completely fucking dumb in every capacity but if they've worked hard at something very specialised they would seem like a 200+ IQ genius if you didn't talk to them about anyone else.

There are definitely different types of intelligence I mean a great one to look at which schools and traditional education refuse to acknowledge is street smarts. You put some white guy who had the misfortune of growing up in the 'hood' for example and you'd think he was a navy seal with all the different tells he can spot about a person but it's not because he was taught that it's because he grew up in a rough environment and learned body language reading out of a need to survive.

That's a form of intelligence that can't really be measured and it's something that I'm thinking about myself. IQ tests? Okay, sure, but what do they really prove exactly? Even if I satisfied my curiosity finally and went to get an IQ test and I did get something high at the end of the day it just seems like another dick measuring contest.