“You can tell what a culture values by who it labels a genius,” writes @helenlewis.bsky.social. Today we are in thrall to brilliant jerks, many of whom brag about their IQ. The metric “has narrow scientific uses, but it is a false god”:
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My Sicilian grandmother used to say: “You want to be smart, but not *too* smart. If you’re too smart, you go crazy.”
jun 5, 2025, 2:49 pm • 0 0 • view
Like the Stephen Hawking quote - people who are obsessed with IQ are losers.
jun 5, 2025, 3:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Like so many things in life, if someone has to tell you that they are smart the opposite is likely true
jun 5, 2025, 2:51 pm • 0 0 • view
The article shows the bias in two IQ tests she took, as well as the non-correlation of IQ to success. Early IQ tests were incredibly biased, and showed first Irish, and then Jews, to be of "low intelligence." I'm sure MAGA could make a test that showed libs were idiots: no buy-in to conspiracies.
jun 5, 2025, 3:11 pm • 0 0 • view
The world is paying such a high price for the success stories of high-IQ clowns. It's time we stop idolizing fake personas backed by VC money and inflated valuations.
jun 5, 2025, 3:25 pm • 1 0 • view
Without money/“connections” there’d be many empty seats at Ivy League schools (Trump’s academic ignorance is well documented yet Fred Sr arranged a transfer for him to an Ivy) Trump’s asinine name calling/vulgarity/rants/nonstop criticism/criminality empowers those who never did their homework.
jun 5, 2025, 3:09 pm • 0 0 • view
What does it say about a country whose greatness was built on smarts, that it no longer values intelligence? That it values compliance over exceptionality?
jun 5, 2025, 3:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Very smart people with a high IQ are always going to be a bit of outsiders why? Because the rest of us are stupid!I know we all like to consider ourselves as smart, the sad truth is that the rule is stupid, than a large number is mediocre (that would be me included)and very few are actually smart😁
jun 6, 2025, 7:43 am • 0 0 • view