I wouldn’t even give it that. Imo “intellectual capacity” is entirely a confidence thing. If you have the confidence to give an answer that may be incorrect, you have intellectual capacity. If you give an answer and it’s wrong, you’re learning. If doing that and being wrong over and over again a million times doesn’t discourage you, somebody is probably about to hand you a degree. “Intellectual capacity” is a fairy tale for the privileged to ensure they aren’t discouraged from pursuing an education, and a source of learned helplessness for most others.
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My personal take is that iq is effectively meaningless. Measuring intelligence is a problem that is extremely hard, maybe even impossible given that what constitutes “intelligence” can be subjective. Some people ascribe value to it iq because it’s an extreme oversimplification of a problem they don’t want to think to hard about, and as a bonus it creates another hierarchy in which they can baselessly feel superior to others.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient#Validity_as_a_measure_of_intelligence
has a pretty good summary of scholarly debate on that question.
TLDR: iq has an extremely narrow take on what “intelligence” means, and ignores the vast wealth of what people consider to be human intelligence. For that reason most scholars think it’s nonsense.
Gustephan@lemmy.worldto Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Does this exist anywhere outside of C++?22·13 days agoOh no! Did I hurt your feelings by clapping back when you insulted me on a shitpost comment chain? Your lack of self awareness is astounding
Gustephan@lemmy.worldto Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Does this exist anywhere outside of C++?32·14 days agoYou’re right, that is incredibly dumb. Just not for the reasons you think it is. Imagine using iostream rather than stdio and unironically trying to clown on \n
Gustephan@lemmy.worldto Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Does this exist anywhere outside of C++?121·14 days agoFuck endl, all my homies hate endl
I feel like batch should be in the evil alignment section. My experience with batch files is that .bat may as well be written .forkbomb