MUH IQ

Is it opposite day?

If you say so. I'm not the /pol faggots saying "durrr niggers have 60 Autism Level" or anything moronic like that. I'm telling you that attaching supernatural significance to intelligence isn't helpful for any discussion on the matter, and that tends to plague these discussions, up to the scientists who are supposed to make sense of the matter, whose work winds up being politicized.

If you want to insist on faggotry and walk out to protect wounded pride, it's probably better than hearing a bunch of bullshit about muh hard work or muh merit or whatever hurt feelings you have (don't know exactly who I'm responding to here). Meritocracy is horseshit and a constant threat, probably the biggest real threat to any socialist system one would hope to build once the obvious stupidity of capitalism is disposed of.

Not everyone with ADD/ADHD scores poorly on such standardized tests.
What schools do in those cases is abominable and it's really disgusting when special education departments get their claws in the kid and start denying him/her textbooks and otherwise sidelining them. If they do have problems (and usually there is something going on), they wind up being exacerbated the moment the kid starts to fail. That's what the education system does, sink or swim, shame the weak, failure begets failure. Of course, if you understand meritocracy as a form of political economy, this makes perfect sense - the point of the educational institutions isn't to teach or even maximize the utility of the students for capitalism, but to create the necessary pressure on the workforce to keep conditions poor and act as the driver's whip so to speak. If there were no autistics, no slow kids, it would be quite necessary to invent a similar category and inflict the same kind of treatment on some other group.

All that aside, my gripe with standardized tests isn't that standardization is bad - it's probably necessary for teaching on a massive scale - but that the tests are so bad and silly that they aren't worth a whole lot. Plenty of mediocrities with test prep can pass through those tests, and they are coddled because merit often becomes hereditary in our system. Meanwhile, the underclasses of society intuit that no matter how hard they try, they're going to be confined to the same category they've been in. The schools openly shit on everyone who isn't college bound, the greatest profession an average student can hope for being enlistment in the military, and their only comfort being that they aren't speds.

I never said otherwise. My original post was about how Daniel Tosh himself hails from a country with such abysmal education that his example does not apply.

I took an Autism Level test a while ago. Part of it included inference of words' spelling and pronunciation (so whatever that tests, you can't use it for like a 6th of the world's population who don't use alphabets or don't speak fucked up languages with weird pronunciation rules). Another part was just a string of math problems. So basically, if you remember the correct algorithm for the math problems, you have a high Autism Level, and if you don't or haven't learned it, you go lower. There were many other aspects of it that come down to what you actually know, not innate potential. You could easily take the test, study for it, and then take it again to increase your score.

Your post is okay buddy but I do have to nitpick:
There are locally-adjusted in eyeq tests that are performed in the host language. I don't know that much about it but that is how they know that the Japanese score quite high.

I barely know of Daniel Tosh but from what I can gather nothing suggests he's anything less than average. Many of the so-called meritorious are just mediocrities in the long run, and if it wasn't them then it would be someone else in most cases. Look at the leadership class of this country and the Ivy Leaguers and you can see rank incompetence passed off as the highest merit, and we're still told that these are the smartest guys in the room. That's one of the problems with meritocracy, it turns into a shitfest of one-upmanship and ratfucking more than actually doing something useful with the accumulated knowledge base and abilities of mankind.

If I Q is so important then how did JonTron produce so many amusing videos despite having an I Q of 95?

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