the stratification of the US is also feeding into the weird and shitty obsession with IQ, because those dorks have never known anyone with a general intellectual disability. and maybe it wouldn't help most of them, because these bozos have the empathy of a fossilized turd. but at the margin, yes.
Meanwhile, countries in Africa, full of people who speak three languages fluently and hustle constantly to stay alive, have average IQs of people who in the US can't hold jobs or go to the bathroom by themselves.
right? some of these bozos are trolling, but I think a majority of the people who repeat this craziness actually believe it. I suppose many of them mistake income for intelligence, a common enough American failing, but then why are they afraid of immigration?
I think it's more that they don't know what IQ means or what it is actually supposed to indicate.
maybe I'm frequenting a more pretentious class of gutter, but the IQ bozos there are all about g-factor and twin studies and so on. still garbage, but a more polished form.
Seeing IQ maps by country is hilarious. Yes, sure, the 1 sd above Chinese or Korean definitely has a higher IQ than most lawyers, doctors, and scientists.