Melodi
Disaster Cat
OK, I will stop my thread drift with a comment. My first serious boyfriend tested something over 180 IQ, and he was a combination of Native American, White, and Black from Venezuela. Then there was the entire class in Alaska a couple of decades ago. All the students tested very low and missed the same questions. One was, "What do you take to go to the bathroom at night?" They all answered, "A Rifle." Which was an important life lesson on an isolated reservation where all the houses had outhouses. As one young student said, "A Bear might come."
IQ is a good indicator of how people will do in any particular national-cultural group's educational system. It does not accurately measure intelligence significantly the further you get from mainstream white culture. Things have improved since the days when they tried to give the same tests to everyone, but not by much. And no, I'm not talking about some silly woke exam either. But you must test people on what is essential in their nation or culture for people to know, which can mean flashlights in suburbia and rifles in rural Alaska.
OK, any other comments on that can be started on another thread. This is a deep rabbit hole where it is easy to manipulate statistics and "prove" anything.
IQ is a good indicator of how people will do in any particular national-cultural group's educational system. It does not accurately measure intelligence significantly the further you get from mainstream white culture. Things have improved since the days when they tried to give the same tests to everyone, but not by much. And no, I'm not talking about some silly woke exam either. But you must test people on what is essential in their nation or culture for people to know, which can mean flashlights in suburbia and rifles in rural Alaska.
OK, any other comments on that can be started on another thread. This is a deep rabbit hole where it is easy to manipulate statistics and "prove" anything.