IQ is pseudo-science I just used it as non-serious shorthand as a proxy. You must be mentally retarded to take IQ seriously like longbowman (clown central) :
In fact Commenting on the significance of the “intelligence” test, the Scholar Nikolas Rose (1999: 143) states that,
The technique of the test was the most important contribution of the psychological sciences to the human technologies of the first half of the twentieth century. The test routinizes the complex ensemble of social judgement on individual variability into an automatic device that makes difference visible and notable.
Thus, the intelligence test can be seen as a moral technology used specifically for the social judgement of school children by psychologists under the guise of “science” (see also Roberts 2015: 12–13). The inventor of the test, Alfred Binet, had developed it to identify the “feeble-minded” to be sent to special schools. Significant for contextualising later mass testings and screenings of school children for intelligence, abnormalities, and mental disorders, Rose (1999: 142, emphasis added) notes, “Binet’s test used criteria that were directly educational and behavioural. They were direct assessments of the degree of adaptation of individual children to the expectation that others had of them.” The key to the success of Binet’s test was not the ability to accurately measure “intelligence”—which he felt was impossible to predict through such time-restricted tests—but its administrative usefulness in identifying problematic individuals (Rose 1999: 142).
1.)Rose, N. (1999) Governing the Soul: The Shaping of the Private Self (2nd ed.). London: Free Association Books.
2.)Roberts, R. (2015) Psychology and Capitalism: The Manipulation of Mind. Alresford: Zero Books.
Hi, my name is longbowman I have a high IQ but having done nothing like Einstein or Johaness Kepler I'm just like another Termite loser clown at least when taking into consideration the expecations based on "MUH IQ!"
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