*** The Official CUCKposting thread ***

[wufwugy]

I've never seen Savy and Ed Witten in the same room. Just sayin'.

[Savy]

I've never seen Savy and Ed Witten in the same room. Just sayin'.

Accomplishing things is a bit too try hard imo. I imagine my IQ is only 107ish so even you're probably more intelligent than me.

[wufwugy]

Accomplishing things is a bit too try hard imo. I imagine my IQ is only 107ish so even you're probably more intelligent than me.

Well then I'm vastly underestimating what 110 means. There's no way I have a higher IQ than you. I don't even look at puzzles much less solve them. Only some of my talents excel when it comes to numbers and shapes and that other IQ stuff.

[Poopadoop]

I think everyone is missing the point that the validity of an argument is independent of the IQ of the person making it. If Einstein had looked outside on a rainy day and said 'it's sunny today', then accepting that statement would still be retarded, even though it came from Einstein.

[Savy]

Well then I'm vastly underestimating what 110 means. There's no way I have a higher IQ than you. I don't even look at puzzles much less solve them. Only some of my talents excel when it comes to numbers and shapes and that other IQ stuff.

the average person from hong kong and singapore apparently has an iq of 108 (according to some random website on google).

100 is the average in the uk
98 is the average in the us

lol

I think everyone is missing the point that the validity of an argument is independent of the IQ of the person making it. If Einstein had looked outside on a rainy day and said 'it's sunny today', then accepting that statement would still be retarded, even though it came from Einstein.

No one is missing the point, and especially aren't disagreeing with you, we're just deciding to chat shit about a similar but different topic.

[Poopadoop]

the average person from hong kong and singapore apparently has an iq of 108 (according to some random website on google).

100 is the average in the uk
98 is the average in the us

Change that to the average in London or New York and I'm guessing the numbers are much more comparable with Singapore. Smart people go to the cities, less smart ones stay on the farm.

[wufwugy]

the average person from hong kong and singapore apparently has an iq of 108 (according to some random website on google).

That's interesting and I wonder if it's related to how the education focuses on like test-taking skill so much.

Because over there, especially in Hong Kong, all the youth does is study for tests. It's not even studying to learn or to problem-solve but to get answers correct on tests.

[Savy]

That's interesting and I wonder if it's related to how the education focuses on like test-taking skill so much.

Because over there, especially in Hong Kong, all the youth does is study for tests. It's not even studying to learn or to problem-solve but to get answers correct on tests.

I doubt that's the case.

The website that I was on (which I don't imagine is a good source) was saying how the study was done by some chaps and they concluded that this is why some countries develop really well and others don't (lots of shitty countries do awfully, some in the 60s). What poop said about smaller concentrated areas of smart people probably has some effect.

What you talk about is true to some extent about other nationalised tests. For example some asian countries do a good job of excluding the lower end of possible applicants to take the test and taking the tests is seen as a great honour that you work hard towards. In other countries, like the UK, they are seen as a complete pain in the arse and the kids hate it.

There is still a lot that can be taken from those type of international tests though you just have to get the context right. A lot of Maths scores for example show some asian countries doing really well and they have things you can learn from but the culture difference makes it quite hard to just copy and paste practises whereas other similar countries do better than others yet are very similar in culture so it's easier to compare what is/isn't working at that time.