THIS all fucking day & everyday from this point on.
This.
or to translate into "Jay" speak...
"Eat a dick, and then grow one of your own."
Ironically, I've never met a smart person yet who called someone else "low IQ." And I worked with a bunch of psychologists specializing in IQ testing in a previous life.
Agree. People don't understand IQ tests. Most actually have a very poor understanding of standardized tests in general. Which is ironic, because understanding how tests are normalized makes you a much better test taker. There's a saying that once the benchmark becomes the goal measure, it stops being predictive of the object it was originally designed to measure. I share your suspicion towards people who use the term at all... To me it's only a tool to identify what some people will have difficulties with. It never replaces effort.
Yup I missed a comma
Although, I think studying IQ is a "past life" activity for some of them too.
Yup I missed a comma
With and the implication that the person who uses the term, does not have a "low IQ", aware such, and is an arbiter of IQ. Each of these notions is hilarious on its own in the era of people identifying with their on-line quiz IQ test results
Long, awkward sentences with compound words you can make up on the fly. That's what my mind was shaped to work with. Takes extra effort to deviate from that.
With and the implication that the person who uses the term, does not have a "low IQ", aware such, and is an arbiter of IQ. Each of these notions is hilarious on its own in the era of people identifying with their on-line quiz IQ test results
We are so off, BTW, but the irony is that this conversation covers the essence of the current GQP policy agenda. Nothing
I partially agree with this notion (not from a historical perspective) that you want to have some checks and balances so smaller / weaker states are not left behind, but... The electoral college + the senate together is too much power for the very "smaller / weaker" states. I think it's reasonable to keep one of these, but the result of both being kept is minority rule. From a fairness perspective, forcing presidential candidates to be more inclusive for the values of America, removing the electoral college, or distributing electoral votes proportionately would be a better solution. Senate could still serve to balance the presidential power of the plurality of voters with state-level interests. If the system would not allow (or even reward) such polarizing presidential candidates, the senate should not be such a battle ground either.