• shneancy@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    i think blue should be either extended or completely replace green, “excellence” is not given just because you’re smart

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      5 months ago

      You don’t understand how much green sucks…

      An intellectual disability is 2 standard deviations from the mean (that’s 30 points).

      For someone that’s 100, about 2% of humans are 30 points lower than them.

      If you’re at the tail of the green?

      Congrats, about 84% of the world’s population is at least 30 points below you. For bonus points, you won’t even know your IQ because it’s like measuring a mile with a foot long ruler. You can get a guesseatimate, but to really measure it just isn’t worth it. A Wechsler would already take 4+ hours to get that high of a score.

      It’s basically Idiocracy. And just like the movie, a lot of the time when you try to explain stuff that sounds basic “don’t use Gatorade on plants” you only get insults and get told plants crave electrolytes.

      Like, people say people in green like drugs because of “novelty seeking behavior”…

      It’s not that, it’s because living in Idiocracy fucking sucks, and there are a couple things that can be done to level the playing field, and most of them are pretty enjoyable too.

      And it’s not even rare. A 145+ IQ is about 1 in 1200 people, that’s about as frequent as people who are trans.