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vraska-theunseen · 8 months ago

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i keep dismissing societal concepts i think are silly in my head and so i go around being like we made this up it's so pointless... abt like copyright law or whatever but then i kind of lock myself in an echo chamber of my own brain where i go around thinking stuff and then i have a conversation with a friend where i find out they put weight in [concept] i've dismissed like they're talking about how IQ is real and measurable and important for statistics and im like WHAT THE HELL...

#ive gotta talk to people more i did learn from that conversation a little bit #i think we had fundamentally different points that were flying past each other like they were saying iq is real and it's valuable for #statistics bc it's something that u can take over and over at different times and get the same result and therefore it can be solidly #extrapolated for different demographics and then that can be attributed to different things like chemical spills or economic inequality or #whatever and i wasn't saying that wasn't true but i was more arguing that it's silly the weight people give it outside of a metric of #statistics like the way people who i've talked to give value to it in real life is stupid bc i've talked to several people who have been #like oh you're so smart that makes me feel bad and im like it means nothing its just a percentage on a test everyone has different #aptitudes for things and that's what's meaningful out in the real world barring its usefulness in statistics #i also wasn't good at explaining myself i didn't really say what i said above i said like half of it poorly #alex talks

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