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   berserk du soleil (aetataureate@dosgame.club)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 01:09:36 JST berserk du soleil

   BMI and IQ are both sometimes explained as "not good metrics, but the only baseline we have and therefore useful." Anyone who says this to you is full of shit. Measuring an arbitrary thing with no evidence-based meaning, then comparing it to another of the same measure, still means nothing. How many times did you look to the left today? How many times did you touch something with your pinky fingers? Who the fuck cares?

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     berserk du soleil (aetataureate@dosgame.club)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 01:09:49 JST berserk du soleil

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     The funny thing about IQ is that everyone would correctly identify as bullshit a study that claimed to measure someone's vocal hesitation words (uh and um and even like sometimes) as their intelligence. It's no different. It's the phrenology of cultural test taking skills. (Editing to add specifically that it is super racist and always has been, just like BMI.)