What's really infuriating is Phil calling game devs stupid.
The brain really is like a muscle, and Phil hasn't used his for anything in the last decade. All he has done is mindlessly play video games all day and watch wrassling. This has gotten him to the point where he unironically needs a calculator to add 252 and 25 together. Next segment is not meant as an insult, it's just that his toxic piece of shit attitude towards people much smarter than him pisses me off to no end and I would like to objectively break it down.
The most accurate IQ-test to date is the WAIS. This perception of intelligence divides it in 4 major components:
- Verbal Comprehension: a measure of an individual’s ability to understand, learn and retain verbal information and to use language to solve novel problems.
I think we can all quite clearly agree that Phil, despite knowing only a single language, has an incredibly basic understanding of said language. He uses words he doesn't understand in a completely wrong context, makes words up, sometimes even puts 2 words together to create a word that doesn't mean anything. In this category, he would have the score of a very smart toddler.
- Perceptual Reasoning: a measure of an individual’s ability to understand visual information and to solve novel abstract visual problems.
Yikes. I think his lack of intelligence when it comes to video game puzzles is quite telling in that aspect. True, it is not entirely the same, but it gives a good idea of how he would score; that is to say, like a dumb adult.
- Working memory: a measure of an individual’s ability to hold verbal information in short-term memory and to manipulate that information.
I think he might score well in that aspect, due to the huge amount of training he got by trying to keep up with his endless amount of lies live on stream. He has proven that even when caught in a lie, he can quickly spin it to manipulate his paypigs and sometimes even use the information they have given against them. This might be his one saving grace, but I think even here he would at best have an average score. Better than the other categories, but still average.
- Processing speed: a measure of mental speed, though the score may also be affected by other cognitive factors, such as attention, as well as ability to use a pen/pencil.
His mental speed is completely fucked because of a lack of any mental effort whatsoever during the last decade, which can be seen through his hand-eye coordination while playing any FPS games. Absolutely, 100% fucked.
With that being said, I truly believe Phil would fall into the borderline/below-average category. I think 'borderline intellectual functioning' describes Phil's intelligence quite nicely.
To finally arrive to my point: this man who might possibly right now be categorized as an actual retard because he had his brain turn to mush for the last 12 years, is calling people who are easily all at least within the 110-120 range 'stupid'.
THAT pisses me the fuck off.
