I sincerely hope this government goes away soon. I also acknowledge it is much easier to ask someone else on the Internet to do it than it is to do the work myself. The more you have to lose the harder it becomes to risk it. Everyone has something they don’t want to lose. I think there is a balancing game to be played here by everyone. Support as much as you can while not over extending yourself. Doing nothing is the wrong answer. I don’t think one person will come in and save us. A tidal wave of small actions could.
I think politicians are obsessed with messaging and media over actually doing anything. I think protests make for good TV/visual messaging that politicians can’t ignore. Perhaps a real path forwards is massive protest turnout and speaking with reporters. Catchy protest signs. I think that is how you speak a politician’s language without lobbying money.
My understanding is it was originally made for figuring out what grade a child belonged in. Like if a kid came to a school, what grade do you put them in? Give the IQ (intelligence quotient) test to determine what grade they go in. Take what they know (score on top) divided by what you expect them to know at that age (score on bottom) gives you a quotient for choosing what grade to place them in. Highly educated? Higher grade. Lower education? Lower grade. Fast learner? Jump a grade. Slower learner? Redo a grade.
Seems like it used to be a useful tool. I don’t think that’s how society uses it anymore, but from the start, I bet it probably worked ok.