How many have had their IQ actually tested in adulthood? Maybe mine’s 92.
I'm not trying to flatter you, but I find this highly doubtful!
It’s funny that you have to head-off the sub-93 replies like this. “But that’s not feasible” is logical identical to “but I did have breakfast this morning” - so you know that someone is going to go there.
Good analogy. Well, I tried!
I'm just not interested in spinning up the list of scenarios whereby this could come about because attention is a finite thing and people spending it on debating that is just a diversion from what interests me which is how the impact on the functioning of society and the role of the 30th percentile in it. We could sci-fi some eugenics program up if we wanted, we could imagine the Elites decide to purge, whatever.
93 IQ isn't smart. Some things to keep in mind:
Well yes, that's kind of my point!
However, it's not impaired either. I listed it out to give people a specific value for what the 30th percentile begins at, to save people doing some arithmetic.
- At most colleges & universities, the cutoff score for admissions correlates to 100 IQ, meaning 93 IQ is dumber than the dumb majors, like English and communications.
Now be fair, studying English Literature for example, doesn't mean one is stupid. It simply has lower barriers to entry allowing the stupid to do so. And there's a perception that it's easy for those that simply want to go to University for its own sake. Don't take my G K Chesterton away from me.
Now that said, the collapse of Media Studies departments across the land
is one of those interesting consequences the thread is about, so fair.
- IIRC, the average IQ for some of the most bottom-tier jobs is in the 90s. Sub-90 IQ isn't a mailman or trash truck driver, it's a mouth-breathing retard who lives on welfare and/or petty crime.
That's actually incorrect. One third of the population is not retarded (though it may feel so). Functional impairment is around 70-85 IQ with actual retardation starting below 70, generally.
I think this is important to highlight because I'm not talking about "what would happen if we removed everyone with mental impairment" because that's both a sad and also not very interesting discussion. I'm talking about if a significant number of functional people were gone, if suddenly the mean intelligence of mankind shifted upwards significantly. What would such a society be like? Evolution is not, as some people think of it, a drive ever upwards. So is there a purpose for this spread in intelligence or is it just still working itself out.
Losing those people would be a massive improvement. It wouldn't fix white birth rates, but our social energy not revolving around idiots and their problems would be great.
It would certainly have an interesting effect on birth rates because as people have pointed out, this would lead to significantly more women then men. Which could have a significant impact on social values as well. If this weren't a one-time blip but a cut-off point that persisted (though I'm not talking about it always being 30th percentile always revising upwards), then either men and women would normalise in their spread or you'd continue to have women outnumber men.
You never specified adults in your hypothesis so the "lowest" IQ would be majority children and infants with a sprinkling of retards.
Well IQ in this instance was a way to convey to people what the lowest 30% would be using a metric people were familiar with. The essence of the idea is that the less smart people are gone. That could be some totalitarian culling of children who don't make the grade when they reach The Age of Testing, but it could equally be a mass-acceptance of eugenics and everybody using only sperm and eggs from people above a certain level.
One thing smart people do is revise things to improve them. So I'll refine the proposed scenario to say this isn't comparing adults with children. It's across all ages.
Actual mental impairment doesn't start until 75 IQ. That's highest IQ people in the Special Olympics are allowed to have for instance, and some government programs are also targeted to people with that IQ. 75-85 is borderline, but those people are usually capable of menial work.
Yes. He over-estimated what 93 IQ is. You have the right of it.
