• Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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      You don’t measure it. You compare it to your own intelligence and see if it matches.

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      When they say it. If somebody says “I’m very smart” or “I’m very intelligent”, you know the answer.

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      Excellent question. For me, it has a lot to do with their sense of humor, general outlook, and their problem solving. ymmv

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        The flawed metric racists use to claim they are somehow superior?

        There is a reason why it isn’t standard practice and only covers certain topics. It can measure some general knowledge, but is in no way indictment to the actual intelligence of a person.

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          Yes I know the origins of IQ Tests and how it was used for justifying eugenics in USA and how Hitler got inspired by it. But I ment it as a joke to the original comment asking how to measure intelligence. And anyway who believes in a number on piece of paper we all only believe in how much upvotes we can get on Lemmy.

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            some healthy self-deprecation is definitely nice, but the eldritch implications of somebody representing their intelligence as convertible to a temperature value transgressing thermodynamic law intrigue me more.

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          I’m theoretically Mensa qualified but when I met some I turned away. My sense of what’s fun and creative did not align. At all.