Thread 16712176

>Board is about science and math
>Half of the posts is about IQ instead
>I too am guilty of making these IQ threads

How did /sci/ become like this?

Get a job.

>>16712180
>Get a job.
Unironically I need one because I'm posting this thread without electricity in my house.

>>16712176 (OP)
This board has nothing to do with science and math.

>>16712185
Schizoposting and LeTex flexing board...and Im ok with that.

>>16712183
Kek.
World is folding on him and he cares about the state of the board

>>16712176 (OP)
Yet, you made one.

>>16712188
It's called empathy.
You can stand to learn it

>>16712176 (OP)
Since you admit you're part of the problem, why don't you explain why you do it, thus answering your own question?

>>16712176 (OP)
It's a controversial (yet not retarded pol crap) topic, which gets responses and keeps the board moving.

>>16712176 (OP)
low IQ mostly

Because it is an easy way to bring the site's favorite obsession of race in to a board that otherwise doesn't revolve much around it.

And because it is an accessible topic with lots of pseudoscientific takes around it.

>>16712176 (OP)
If IQ predicts income then why am I poor despite scoring 130 on the WAIS-IV administered by a certified neuropsychologist as part of my evaluation? Where do I go to retrieve the income I'm entitled to?

>>16713748
Because outliers exist.

It’s not about IQ at this point. It’s about people believing that biological variance STOPS once it reaches the brain. This is surreal to me. Are they really that much in cope mode? It’s religious, magical thinking, to just assume we’re all the same once we reach the brain.

You can take issue with IQ tests, but you cannot take issue with what it attempts to measure. That’s just biology/evolution for you. Denying it is a red flag that you’re cognitively compromised.

>>16713858
This. It’s the religious denial against the idea that we’re not all the same. Religion has no place in science. The alternative is believing humans are unicorns. Special and totally exempt from biology.

Lot of it also is due to DEI (under various names) in STEM fields causing those of lesser ability to end up in positions they shouldn't be in. Those in favor of such policies claim the reason why the groups with less people proportionally in those positions is due to discrimination against them and not due to lack of ability. The push back against that is to point to research showing differences in intelligence between groups. No one disputes why there are more blacks in the NBA but ask why there are less blacks in JPL, suddenly biology stops being scientific.

>>16713748
Do you know what a prediction is? Likelihood, not certainty.
If you are from Thailand, you are likely to be less than 180cm tall, but that doesn't mean no Thai people above 180cm exist.

>>16713748
iq has like 0.2 correlation with income. taleb's stuff is full of cope, but if your worry is 'making it' as in family, love, friends and all that, iq doesn't mean these things just fall into your lap

>>16713883
How do I ascend like that <75IQ gigachad with $180k income?

>>16713892
You would have to become a sports ball player or something

>>16713858
100%

Denial of biological variance is one of the things ruining the planet when it comes to basic fucking education.

>>16712176 (OP)
slow boards are prime kekistani targets