Assuming you want to convince anyone outside our base demographic of anything, it is highly inadvisable to refer to people within 1SD of mean IQ as “low-IQ people”.
I understand that on a website where the mean IQ is about 140, people with an IQ of 100 might seem dumb. But the vast majority of the population will be justifiably offended at using the term “low-IQ” to mean “people of average intelligence.”
I understand that on a website where the mean IQ is about 140, people with an IQ of 100 might seem dumb. But the vast majority of the population will be justifiably offended at using the term “low-IQ” to mean “people of average intelligence.”
Fortunately, as you observe, most of them are not here to be offended.
Don’t disagree. I don’t even recommend he use it here, assuming a suitable alternative is available. In part because it is usually the incorrect word to use for the practice being attempted. For most part “only slightly high IQ people” are the ones being referred to.
Maybe something to the effect of “Rationality and the Average Person,” which doesn’t have a reference to ideas of intelligence or IQ, but keeps the idea of “How can this best be applied to the rest of the world?”
Assuming you want to convince anyone outside our base demographic of anything, it is highly inadvisable to refer to people within 1SD of mean IQ as “low-IQ people”.
I understand that on a website where the mean IQ is about 140, people with an IQ of 100 might seem dumb. But the vast majority of the population will be justifiably offended at using the term “low-IQ” to mean “people of average intelligence.”
Fortunately, as you observe, most of them are not here to be offended.
I don’t know that we can rely on obscurity forever.
But mostly I’m advising him not to use that phrasing anywhere else.
Don’t disagree. I don’t even recommend he use it here, assuming a suitable alternative is available. In part because it is usually the incorrect word to use for the practice being attempted. For most part “only slightly high IQ people” are the ones being referred to.
Agreed. Perhaps I should have said “Normal-IQ people?” That still sounds a bit bad though.
Maybe something to the effect of “Rationality and the Average Person,” which doesn’t have a reference to ideas of intelligence or IQ, but keeps the idea of “How can this best be applied to the rest of the world?”
However, I don’t particularly like that phrasing.