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[Anonymous No.22456583]

Would you read this?

[Anonymous No.22456601]

>>22456583
*crack* *sip* I might, but I've also seen face off.

[Anonymous No.22456709]

>>22456583
seems like an interesting enough premise.

[Anonymous No.22456735]

>>22456583
i'd read a summary and then see if anyone cares that i like it

[Anonymous No.22457267]

>>22456601
I actually watched it for inspiration but didn't get too much out of it. The fakecest subplot was probably the most fun they squeezed out of the premise.

[Anonymous No.22457293]

no because it sounds like an unbelievable cope. You can't fool anyone with 80IQ, you're two deviations away from the smarties

[Anonymous No.22457385]

>>22456583
It sounds retarded.
>hurr durr, there no difference between da eye Qews n shit
Fuck off. I hope you didn't spend too much time on it. The inverse would be better (though I still wouldn't read it.)
>Famously high IQ guy wants to live a more simple life because high IQ living has too many requirements
>He larps as a low IQ, average /lit/ user
>Deals with situations that call for him to act like a retard without being too obvious about acting
>Almost gets caught, narrowly escapes
>Someone figures him out but they can't be too sure
>Last chapter is that he kills himself after being caught because he wasn't high IQ enough to bullshit the guy who figured it out
>Turns out the guy who caught him was only joking at the funeral
>Everyone laughs
>The corpse farts
>Everyone laughs harder, then finds out that the high IQ guy faked his suicide and paid off the undertaker to not remove his blood
>???
>Book two suggestion in the prologue

[Anonymous No.22458848]

>>22456583
isn't this gattaca

[Anonymous No.22459282]

>>22458848
Gattaca is more about genetic perfection in areas other than intelligence, for some reason. I remember Ethan Hawke's character being as intellectually capable as anyone, and it was just his heart problem (and other minor physical imperfections like height) wjocj held him back. Gattaca's setting also seemed more naive in that work hard = success whereas my story is set in a very plausible future where hard work (or even intelligence, and let alone integrity) is insufficient to do well.

[Anonymous No.22459306]

>>22456583
You've clearly never met anyone with 88 IQ. I bet you were thinking of someone average (100-110) when writing that character. 80 IQ is borderline downie

[Anonymous No.22459315]

>>22456583
It comes across as a stupid person trying to write a smart character, like Sherlock.

[Anonymous No.22459453]

>>22459315
You read it? If so, I'm curious to know how you arrived at that assessment.

[Anonymous No.22459465]

>>22459306
It's for the sake of clarity for normies. If you say 100 IQ it's low but it looks like it's high enough to normies. Same reason weather forcast doesn't give the real wind speed. 50 km/h wind speed is insane but since it's a slow pace for a car normies won't understand it.

[Anonymous No.22459476]

>>22459306
80 IQ would be considered mentally retarded if we didn't' lower the classification to appease black Americans.

[Anonymous No.22459497]

>>22459465
Then it's dishonest and you're perpetuating the problem. Anyone with a mild interest in the matter can google what's the average IQ in adults and see it's 105. 80 used to be the cutoff for mental retardation but they lowered the bar because too many black students tested that score. It doesn't change the fact that someone with 88 IQ would objectively have trouble forming whole sentences and his "impersonation" would fool absolutely nobody.

[Anonymous No.22459511]

>>22459497
>you're perpetuating the problem
Why did you assume that? It was my first post here. The issue I mentioned does trigger my autism a lot.

[Anonymous No.22459537]

>>22459511
My mistake, I thought you were OP

[Anonymous No.22459569]

>>22459465
>real wind speed
Are you retarded? I did some forecasting for a few years. We use both. The main reason we use metric in discussions is for pilots, sailors, and truck dispatchers, who have their systems setup to deal in metric. Oh and just remember that pretending to be a retard will turn you into one.
>>22459497
>what's the average IQ in adults and see it's 105
No one told you that "100" is average? If you separate a group and test IQ, the average is 100 of that group, even if the average, when compared to the general population, is 130. We just use the 100 as a starting point. This is why you aren't supposed to try to compare different time periods because it's an entirely different set.
You're right about everything else.

[Anonymous No.22459604]

>>22459306
OP here. I read Cloak of Competence for how below-average IQ people actually behave. Someone with an IQ of 88 can actually quite easily pass off as average IQ as long as he's not required to perform any complex tasks (hence the title "Cloak of Competence").
>>22459497
And no he wouldn't necessarily have trouble forming whole sentences, unless he also happens to have below average verbal intelligence relative to his overall IQ.

[Anonymous No.22459615]

>>22459569
>Are you retarded?
Yes, but it doesn't change the fact most normies don't know that even 20km/h wind speed is heavy. Their relate speed to what they know best (cars) so it can't speak to them.

[Anonymous No.22459625]

>>22459569
Wait, I realized you thought I meant "real speed" as in imperial versus metric system, but I live in a first world country so I never think about the imperial system. My bad for clarity.

[Anonymous No.22459631]

>>22459615
>americans don't know 50 km/h is fast relative to a standing human because they spend more time in their cars than they do walking
kek

[Anonymous No.22459637]

>>22459631
>americans don't kno km/h
FTFY

[Anonymous No.22459665]

>>22459637
Even if you convert it to miles they'll still think it's slow because their SUV is faster. Nevermind the fact that winds at that speed will send you flying across the street if you step outside

[Anonymous No.22460719]

>>22459665
>that winds at that speed will send you flying across the street if you step outside
Weak manlet detected.