🧵 How much does low IQ truly impair a person?
Anonymous at Fri, 8 Nov 2024 07:51:27 UTC No. 16466905
I often think about how many low IQ people there are in the world. For every person that's 110iq, there's one that's 90iq. For every person that's 120iq, there's one that's 70iq. A whole 15% of the population is 85iq or lower.
If these people are so common, how do they function? Does being 80iq really prevent someone from thinking in abstract terms?
Anonymous at Fri, 8 Nov 2024 12:37:32 UTC No. 16467064
>>16466905
You don't need any IQ higher than 80 to live a normie life
Anonymous at Fri, 8 Nov 2024 12:45:58 UTC No. 16467068
IQ correlates with the ability to solve problems that you have not faced before.
Anonymous at Fri, 8 Nov 2024 12:51:49 UTC No. 16467077
>>16466905
All you "need" to do in Nature is get to about 16, make enough babies to replace yourself and the mother plus 1-2 extra to help the population grow a bit, but that's it. You can easily do all you were "meant to do" by the time you're 25-30, then you would be dead without ever having to do a math problem along the way.
Working hard and being likeable will get you WAAAAAAAY further in life than an IQ score.
Anonymous at Fri, 8 Nov 2024 12:58:48 UTC No. 16467090
>>16466905
>If these people are so common, how do they function?
You dont need a high IQ to do almost any job, not in the modern world and not in any era of the world. High IQ is needed for a top 1% elite of CEOs and lawyers and top engineers that actually invent things and are not just sales agents for a factory
Anonymous at Fri, 8 Nov 2024 13:11:05 UTC No. 16467098
>>16466905
That pic is a bunch of LARP bullshit. Chris-chan has a 70 IQ and can visualize shit like having a mermaid tail and imagine anarchronisms.
The reality of IQ is more like engine size.
80 IQ can do what a 160IQ does GIVEN enough time/repition.
Its like a ebike could go accros america, given a couple months. While a spaceship crosses it in minutes.
160iqs will read a college class book in 1 day and all the assignments the next 3 days, effectivily learning an enitre coarse in 4 days, while an 80iq could do it given perhaps a year.
Anonymous at Fri, 8 Nov 2024 15:58:51 UTC No. 16467257
>>16467098
Basically, yes. "Intelligence" is really just "the ability to learn NEW things QUICKLY. Very low IQ is a true handicap, but short of that, most folks can learn most things if they have enough time and help, but that's not actually very impress or useful in the real world, and may even become burdensome on others.
That being said, there are very, very few things in life where you "need" a very high IQ, and even then there's very little guarantee of success. Even the "best" might make 1-2 interesting insights into a very obscure field over an entire career, but rarely more than that.
Anonymous at Fri, 8 Nov 2024 16:27:22 UTC No. 16467277
>>16467098
I doubt this, some people are just too low iq to grasp certain topics, hell I’m iq 115 and still struggle with advanced statistical concepts, iq is definitely a ceiling to what you can accomplish, you can’t just hand a linear algebra book to a downie and give him unlimited time and expect him to master the material
the ceiling for most sub 90 iqs is literally something like long division
Anonymous at Fri, 8 Nov 2024 16:29:24 UTC No. 16467281
>>16467098
>>16467257
When you teach a math class you realize there are some dumb motherfuckers who aren't just slow, you can tell there's nobody home when they talk and try to solve problems. They're reciting things they've heard, almost like a dog trained to bark with no conceptualization of how topics got interwoven. In short they simply have no problem solving ability whatsoever.
Anonymous at Fri, 8 Nov 2024 16:32:27 UTC No. 16467285
>>16467098
>Estimated IQ: 110
>>16467257
>Estimated IQ: 96
>>16467277
>Estimated IQ: 144
Obviously there are errors here but the point is that the posters seething about this observation are lower IQ than the ones who corroborate the observation.
raphael at Fri, 8 Nov 2024 17:28:02 UTC No. 16467339
>>16467277
whats your profile like?
Anonymous at Fri, 8 Nov 2024 19:34:10 UTC No. 16467470
>>16466905
I get irrationally angry at people who don't get counterfactuals, I prefer to believe they are trolling or its kind of automatic mental coping mechanism because the counterfactual goes against their beliefs or something, I refuse to believe it's real