Thursday 28 November 2013

Intelligence Failure

I have never taken an IQ test in my life. I question whether anyone who sets any store by them is sufficiently intelligent to be allowed out alone, if at all. For example, Boris Johnson.

The whole thing depends on “mental age”, whatever that may be. The IQ of children in numerous countries has “improved” dramatically over the years when IQ tests have been set, and therefore taught to, in schools; indeed, this never fails to happen.

The publications of Mensa are a particularly rich seam of amusement. “More people than you might think are above average”? I’m guessing about half of them. “One person in twenty is in the top five per cent”? You don’t say! And so on.

But never try and tell the “I have a high IQ” lot any of this.

You wouldn’t have to, and indeed you never could, do anything to get a high IQ, even if such a thing really existed. Having it would be no cause for congratulation, never mind for self-congratulation or for the creation of an international society for mutual congratulation.

2 comments:

  1. I's an amazing insight into modern PC Britain that someone can cause genuine uproar by doing nothing more than stating the bleeding obvious.

    If the statement that not all people are equally intelligent is considered "controversial", then we have collectively gone mad.

    Call in the men in white coats.

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  2. Quite.

    Still, at least the cult of this sociopath has taken a knocking.

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