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8987946 No.8987946 [Reply] [Original]

I don't understand intelligence, IQ, g-factor, any of that.

What do you say to people who claim that what we consider intelligence is just a particular way of surviving in in our mathy, bureucratic, analytical, western culture, and that there's no objective intelligence? What if the people who devised the concept of intelligence just took something that's considered 'succeeding' in our culture, did some research on people who had this quality, and then found out these kind of people tend to succeed? Well, dah. What if that's all there to is, just a lot of different ways to specialize, and being intelligent is just one of them?

What if being unintelligent or 'irrational' is just people valuing unorthodox and non-mainstream things? Not all people value financial success. What I've heard about it, being famous or rich often sucks a lot, you have little privacy, people constantly try to find fault with you, people demand a lot from you, you get a lot of critique, you have to please a ton of people.

>> No.8987985

bump

>> No.8987993

>>8987946
you say
> i wont be your teacher, go read a fucking book, until you do we dont have anything to talk about

>> No.8987996

IQ tests designed for discovering mental retardness, not for reckoning intelligence.

>> No.8988007

>>8987946
>Not all people value financial success
not all people CANT HAVE financial success so they rationalize it by " not valuing it"