Well, I don't even know what my own IQ is. The way I look at it, if it's high, I will be even more unbearable than I already am, and if it's low, I will suffer injury to my all important self-esteem. Ignorance is bliss. (I do know that I am eligible for Mensa, based on my SAT, and Nihil has already told me that Mensans are dummies compared to the 3 Sigma Society or something like that. We argued about all this before you became a thread regular.)
I think my So What argument was directed towards using IQ and ability tests to rank groups of people based on race, color, creed, national origin, sex, or sexual preference. IQ tests are given to individuals. I am not good at statistics, but I believe it is meaningless to administer an IQ test to all members of a group, take all the IQ tests, average them out, and then predict what any individual's IQ would be based on his/her membership in the group.
And even if we knew for a fact that Laplanders had a higher IQ than Norwegians, So What? |
