• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    Statistically for some of us it’s always been Idiocracy…

    It’s only takes two standard deviations above 100, before the difference between you and the average person, is the same as average person and someone with an intellectual disability.

    If you’re really unlucky you’re 3 standard deviations above and then like 80%+ of the population would be classified as having an intellectual disability if your IQ was the frame of reference instead of 100.

    And our own IQ is literally our own frame of reference…

    So yeah. At any given point in human history, roughly 2%, definitely 0.1% have been living in fucking Idiocracy, and nothing will ever make it better for them.

    Ignorance is bliss, because you never deal with someone that far below yourself, and you don’t notice the other person being that much higher.

    But 30 points is the line, because that’s where differences become apparent and one sided frustration common.

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        12 days ago

        You think bell graph distribution should be linear?

        I’m genuinely curious what you’re trying to say here

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          12 days ago

          No I don’t think that of course.

          What I am saying is that the meaning of relative differences is non linear. That is 30 IQ points difference is not the same kind of difference from 70 to 100 points as from 100 to 130 nor from 150 to 180.

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            12 days ago

            Nope.

            30 points is 30 points, and that’s the round number around the point where the difference is very apparent to the person 30+ above the other…

            If you’ve never experienced that before, most people never will. If you’re the one talking to someone that much higher than you, if you did notice you would just noticed you’re not understanding and you’d likely blame the person talking.

            Exactly like Idiocracy.

            Ignorance is bliss, because you never deal with someone that far below yourself, and you don’t notice the other person being that much higher.

            If you’re 100, only 2% are 30+ below you, and depending on your country you’ll never really run into them.

            But if you’re 145, it’s around 84% of the population, and the vast amount of people you interact with in public will give you that feeling.

            I understand you’re not getting this, but it doesn’t mean it’s something I just pulled out of my ass. You’re just not understanding it

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              12 days ago

              I am getting what you are saying. It’s not difficult to understand but I understand that for you it must seem like I don’t get it.

              What I am stating though is that while you assume the relationship of IQ and that feeling you are describing to be linear it is in fact not.

              Like most relationships between metric and human feelings it’s highly non linear and individual to everyone. I disagree that someone with k+30 IQ feels the same about someone with k IQ no matter the reference IQ k.

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                12 days ago

                I am getting what you are saying

                And then you go on to say you don’t get it…

                I disagree that someone with k+30 IQ feels the same about someone with k IQ no matter the reference IQ k.

                Have a nice life bub, it’ll be less frustrating than it is for some of us at least.