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Who cares about red flags in people. What are your green flags (lemm.ee)

submitted 11 months ago by Ilflish@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml -3 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Have you heard about IQ Test.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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.

[–] shiveyarbles@beehaw.org 4 points 11 months ago

No that's dumb

[–] ondoyant@beehaw.org 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

somebody talking about their IQ would be a major red flag for me lol

[–] AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Is it OK if they mention that their IQ is less than 0 Kelvin.

[–] ondoyant@beehaw.org 2 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] homicidalrobot@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Have YOU been on the mensa forums?

[–] badelf@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

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.