Hehe ⌠I am certainly testament to that theory. I have a ridiculously high IQ, but have not achieved that much . I am in Taiwan. I fail in many ways, to gain any advantage from it. Probably laziness, but I think it is fair to say that it is only one indicator . A mix of skills and intelligence seems to be hard to measure , as a âTestâ. I just felt drawn to exciting things and enjoymentâŚmy downfall.
Looks like you enjoyed life, how is that a downfall?
But being intelligent is tricky indeed, for example there are many intelligent people that find school utterly boring itâs not necessarily a good thing anyway. Also if you are smarter than everyone around you that means there will be some feeling of loneliness which needs to be addressed on a psychological level.
Iâve noticed the high IQ of the Taiwanese while driving. They seem.to follow logic while riding motor scooters which must be indicitative of their high IQ.
I also donât see intelligent people voting to leave the EU and then making complete idiots of themselves but the UK is ranked 8th in that leader board.
Apparently when your country is mostly white or Asian itâs allowed to be idiotic with a high IQ.
I have to agree. IQ compares humans with other humans. Itâs not comparing our race with super-intelligent aliens. Weâre still basically chimps who can make a wider range of grunting sounds. Some of us are barely smart enough to figure out when to drop the banana.
What meter are you using ? University education? IQ?, for "intelligent? Or people who may disagree with you ? If it wasnât for those (deplorable) pesky kids, and democracy, we would have been able to get away with it .
Good one. Taiwanese are trained to be good at testing. I mean this is what they build up their life around. They are very good at specialization, they have overall average to good hard working habits. But would not call them intelligent. Yes some Taiwanese are smart, but let say at least 50 % of them are dump as chickens. It has to do with Chinese conservatism, education, family controlling.
I believe locals have their own dump futures everywhere. Is part of their life, folk tradition and routine. Anyone living in more countries understand this.
For example is national sport for Americans to have dept. For personal consumption, they paying tone of interest money on their daily spending. Is dump. They take dept for studying while their peeps studying tuition free in Europe, Asia. 100k of debt, what they can get for free in another country. But hey USA is still most powerful country by far.
In Europe my so citizens vote socialist, illegal immigrant friendly parties. Is dump. Government taking 30 to 50 % of our salaries and giving to illegal immigrants, which later making all kind of crime and social problems. So in the end of day can say we Europeans work many hours for free too. Specially those without kids.
Some of the reactions are the reasons why we canât progress on this subject. The guy who just published his findings about IQ and race was shunned and labeled racist. The fact is, there is no better way to determine success socioeconomically. Even the military who have every reason to want as many recruit as possible, especially during war times, do not let people in below a certain IQ. To dismiss it as racist and not meaning anything is ridiculous.
Agree, even with some fair study of the subject , people like Molyneux get the label of âRight Wingâ, in much the same way as Peterson. As you say, I am not sure by what other means one can compare ? Taiwan does suffer from being educated, predominately, to pass Tests. Good memory and Mathematical skills , though.
Amazing amount of Childrenâs time spent learning English, culminating in fair reading/writing skills and terrible oral skills.
I do hope they change the system. I can pick up european languages reasonably , but struggle with Mandarin to a good level. No idea how you measure things like that .