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Donald Trump Confuses Dementia Screening for 'Very Hard' IQ Test as He Brags About Results (people.com)
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[–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Actually it is a good idea to have some health/intelligence requirements for governmental roles.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Except IQ is a racist pseudoscience.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    IQ is highly biased towards western societies, but I'd argue that you could expect a president to get a 30 minute briefing and summarise it afterwards, for example?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    IQ isn't biased towards western societies.

    Individual IQ tests are biased towards the culture of the person who made the test, and the actual tests are also biased towards the tester's biases.

    If those biases are racial, the bias is racial. The original test maker was trying to identify students who needed extra help, btw, and the concept itself isn't racial or pseudoscience, but the popular implementation is.

    The test is a test, and people think too much of it and try to use it in a way they shouldn't, like it's a magic "you're this smart for life" number which it simply isn't and wasn't meant to be.

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