Only someone who hasn’t spent much time around people with 2-digit IQ’s.
I looked at that sentence and thought “but people with 2-digit IQs make up 50% of the population! Surely I’ve spent plenty of time around them!” Then I read the article, and the description of people with IQs below 100% was surprising, to the point that I’m thinking maybe there’s been some sample bias in who I’m spending my time around. (Just because about 50% of the people in my high school had IQ’s below 100 doesn’t mean there were the ones taking physics and calculus with me, and although I’ve met people in nursing school who are abominable at things that seem obvious to me, like statistics, nursing probably requires fairly high intelligence, so my “unbiased sample” is probably still biased.)
The idea is unpleasant enough that I think I have some ideological bias against intelligence being that important. Probably because it seems unfair that something basically fixed in childhood and partly or mostly genetic (i.e. beyond the individual’s control and “not their fault”) should determine their life outcome. I don’t like the idea...but admitting that intelligence differences exist won’t make it any more awful.
I looked at that sentence and thought “but people with 2-digit IQs make up 50% of the population! Surely I’ve spent plenty of time around them!” Then I read the article, and the description of people with IQs below 100% was surprising, to the point that I’m thinking maybe there’s been some sample bias in who I’m spending my time around. (Just because about 50% of the people in my high school had IQ’s below 100 doesn’t mean there were the ones taking physics and calculus with me, and although I’ve met people in nursing school who are abominable at things that seem obvious to me, like statistics, nursing probably requires fairly high intelligence, so my “unbiased sample” is probably still biased.)
The idea is unpleasant enough that I think I have some ideological bias against intelligence being that important. Probably because it seems unfair that something basically fixed in childhood and partly or mostly genetic (i.e. beyond the individual’s control and “not their fault”) should determine their life outcome. I don’t like the idea...but admitting that intelligence differences exist won’t make it any more awful.