The tribes of intellect
July 10, 2014 9:28 AM Subscribe
Can you challenge a juror and carpet a room? Dr James Thompson explains how the scientific understanding of IQ can be seen in terms of tribes of intellect that stucture our societies.
This post was deleted for the following reason: This appears to be a drama-bomb without substantial redeeming value. -- restless_nomad
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Vocabularies are relatively mall
That's something-sterical, not sure what…
posted by overeducated_alligator at 9:43 AM on July 10, 2014 [2 favorites]
Vocabularies are relatively mall
That's something-sterical, not sure what…
posted by overeducated_alligator at 9:43 AM on July 10, 2014 [2 favorites]
God hasn't all this "one scale of intelligence", massively culturally specific, designed to prove evil social theories IQ bullshit been blown out of the water yet? *yawn*
posted by iotic at 9:46 AM on July 10, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by iotic at 9:46 AM on July 10, 2014 [1 favorite]
The fuck's this shit? Reductive, essentialist nonsense. The idea that income tracks IQ anything *like* that closely is pretty well established to be bollocks.
posted by howfar at 9:52 AM on July 10, 2014 [2 favorites]
posted by howfar at 9:52 AM on July 10, 2014 [2 favorites]
yeah this is racist bullshit. flagged.
posted by MisantropicPainforest at 9:53 AM on July 10, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by MisantropicPainforest at 9:53 AM on July 10, 2014 [1 favorite]
I'm so glad I'm a Beta. Have been ever since the day I was decanted.
posted by gimonca at 9:54 AM on July 10, 2014 [2 favorites]
posted by gimonca at 9:54 AM on July 10, 2014 [2 favorites]
This guy belongs to Mensa. Absolutely 100% dead-certain Mensa.
posted by benito.strauss at 9:54 AM on July 10, 2014
posted by benito.strauss at 9:54 AM on July 10, 2014
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