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I saw someone on reddit link this greentext image which explains some of the difficulties with basic reasoning ability that people with low IQ have.
I've read some books on the basics of intelligence research (which shows that intelligence is positively correlated with many outcomes that are good, and negatively correlated with many outcomes that are bad), but this text somehow phrased it in very concrete terms that I found interesting. Are there any other readings people have found that tries to contextualize the reality of living at a different intelligence level?
I know that, when people empathize with others, they tend to do so by "putting themselves in other people's shoes", which is trying to figure out how you would act given a different set of circumstances. But doing this with people of vastly different cognitive ability than you is flawed, and I want to understand some of the ways in which it is flawed better.
Emil has a blogpost on this sequence of 4chan posts.
How do only 3% get that last one right? That seems like, not as easy I guess as the other ones, but its just going line by line and saying "parents and teachers agreed in general here, disagreed in general here"...am I missing something?
Selection bias. You're mostly surrounded by people who are about as smart as you if you have a CNR job. People like cops, ER nurses, DMV clerks and Walmart cashiers wouldn't be surprised.
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