A study conducted in Germany found that men with higher IQs are less inclined to traditional values, but the lead author, psychologist and intelligence researcher Maximilian Krolo of Saarland University, said the researchers did not find these differences among women.

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    7 months ago

    IQ testing is pseudoscience. It’s one of the preferred methods of the far right to try to differentiate between races for that very reason. Pseudoscience is a lot more malleable for their purposes than the settled science that says race doesn’t exist biologically.

    Having a “high IQ” is only proof that you’re good at IQ tests.

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      6 months ago

      Veritasium made a video talking about IQ tests, their validity and so on. https://youtu.be/FkKPsLxgpuY

      One of my key takeaways: IQ tests have some validity as a diagnostic tool for asessing cognitive disabilities or illnesses, but they should not be taken as serious and significant as many less informed people seem to do.

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        6 months ago

        For your own privacy, and the privacy of everybody else interacting with you.

        When you share a YouTube link, if you don’t remove the si=ID, anybody that clicks on that link will then be associated with you. It’s one of the tools Google uses to track your internet usage.