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I'm just a czech trying to find his place in the federated web.

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@toast @dyske it might do you well to read the rest of what I wrote, but seeya.
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@toast @dyske Pattern recognition "is" intelligence. Recognising patterns in things is what allows primates to use tools, adapt to situations, how quickly you may understand complex problems. I merely conceded that for a future of a person there are more important things than minor IQ differences, such as focus.

Hopefully you don't take it as a personal attack if I tell you I'm going to trust decades of cognitive research over your grudge towards the IQ scale.
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@toast @dyske IQ score ranges (from DSM-IV):

Mild mental retardation: IQ 50–55 to 70; children require mild support; formally called "Educable Mentally Retarded".

It's not funny if I have to explain it :T
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@toast @dyske I don't really talk about my IQ tests unless its relevant

One of those articles though mentions "verbal IQ". Which does seem like snake oil.
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@pony it's your fault for going to Warszawa.

Trains are nice though. I like trains. The other time I took a train from Uherské Hradiště to Prague during winter and had a great time.
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@toast @dyske I understand that mensa's claim was pretty dumb and I wasn't aware of it, that much I didn't deny. Idk if you really need to show me any papers, I just said it was about measuring pattern recognition by giving people patterns to recognise. Doesn't get much more objective and rooted in data.
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@toast @dyske Yeah okay that sounds like admittedly really stupid wording.

When I got tested though I was told that I shouldn't rely on it (as a metric of learning capacity) by just about everyone including their employees.

Something I'm really feeling now because my attention span is shit.

Again, it measures pattern recognition, by giving people patterns to recognise. I don't find that very complicated nor snakeoil. Future success? Not so much.
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@dyske >So. IQ tests do reinforce this unhealthy phenomenon, by partitioning it's participants into two groups (below/above 100).They are "certified" confirmation, that you're "better" than someone else.

Moreover I have yet to see a serious study where IQ is taken as a sole indicator of perfomance.

Again. IQ doesn't claim to be anything but a metric for pattern recognition. They're not "certified better" or "more performant". That's what you are claiming.

You do have a point in that people shouldn't view it as an "everything will go great" card, but that's why most kids who are tested at school don't really get their numbers told.
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@dyske From my experience, they are quick to point out IQ doesn't describe a person's diligence or focus.

Plus, people being wrong about something doesn't change the state of the thing they are wrong about.

I wish more people realised that.
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@dyske IQ doesn't claim to be anything else but a metric for pattern recognition-you do, and in that sense it works well. Diligence is another matter entirely.
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@dyske only brainlets say that
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I have just received my N-word pass. Thanks Vicky, I promise I won't squander it!
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@lain feet, not even once
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Why is it that whenever journos report that "people are outraged", it's really just "we are outraged and here's a handful of twitter users who agree with us"?
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Student of Charles' University's Faculty of Philosophy are on a strike, for climate.

I hope the economy will be able to recover from a hit like that.

In all seriousness, why don't they transfer to electrical engineering or nuclear science? So they can, you know, be a part of the solution?
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