Quote Originally Posted by Gandalf View Post
1. There is nothing delusional about IQ and the connection it has to things like incarceration, education level, welfare claimants, illegitimate child birth etc. The data is all out there on all of these things. Is it everything? I do not think so. However, is it important? Absolutely. Look up the data, there is research on these things.

2. I see no need for personal attacks based on little. It is rather insufferable and I would urge you to stop.

2. IQ tests are the best predictor of success we have. Again, is it an absolutely perfect predictor? No, of course it isn't. However, you are unlikely to find a CEO with an IQ of 90. You are unlikely to find a doctor with an IQ of 92. You wouldn't allow such a person to take on a position requiring significant responsibility.

3. Of course you would bring up the art angle, but Paul McCartney as amazing as he is is not somebody who would likely do a very good job of running the NHS.

4. I see there another needless sly dig.

5. Now you are using your traditional tactic of suggesting flaws in another person that are not there. Am I adverse to risk taking? Well, I try not to be recklessly impulsive. However, I am someone who will move to other countries, move to different cities in other countries, and quit jobs as and when required. That is a degree of risk taking.

6. Inability to learn would be to continue same old habits that harm. Yes, that is a fate that can befall anyone, but you could on the other hand own the situation and improve things.

7. Of course IQ can change in life. It would be absurd for a child not to improve ones IQ. One can also self improve and I think this is fundamental and what I keep arguing. One can also decline as with brain trauma or dementia. So what?

8. Indeed people, including many black people, are choosing to be poor because of the decisions they make. That is a fact of life, now get used to it.

You certainly come across as rather desperate TBH with your desperation to prove that you work and then fall back on the disabled wife argument constantly. Look at how giddy you were when you got a job interview and then.....failed. Hate to sound mean, but you sound kind of nowhere.

9. More personal attacks. That's a very bad habit. Are you able to change? You continue to bait and goad, but I would urge you to tone it down a little. You have come begging to several people not to use your name and location because you fear 'losing your job', so how about you treat people with a little fucking respect? Just a suggestion.

Precisely as I predicted you defaulted to your meritocracy argument. The ideology that dictates your rather simplistic view of the world. It is not a personal attack to suggest that you are not all that special, it is hardly insufferable and employing such hyperbole does nothing to bolster your much exaggerated claims to having a personality dear boy. IQ tests are not predictors of success, behaviour or any of the other twaddle you claim. You are again looking at the world through the rather limited lens of a cog in a failing machine. If you think CEO's and Doctors are the only measures of what constitutes leading a meaningful successful life then therein lies your problem. Think bigger, think better, think less reductively. Diminishing the lives of others simply because you do not understand them does nothing to make your argument for living an incredibly boring and repetitive life any more valid. Most people have been there and done that, but unlike you will not settle for second best. We have one life and thinking there is only one way to live it is a sure fire way of removing opportunity to learn and grow from your own existence.

I mention art not because it is an angle but because it is an expression of creative intelligence that IQ does nothing to measure. You dismiss it because you personally have never been able to employ that kind of intelligence to make a living and so you even have to reduce someone who even by your own standards has been incredibly successful to nothing, simply because you think a businessman has more worth than a musician. That is an incredibly pathetic last ditch attempt to pretend that rather than change, the whole world should have given up and sold out like yourself. You are young there is nothing stopping you from employing your own creativity to 'bank' or whatever your marker of success is, but you had better pull your socks up as you will need about 10 000 hours of acquiring an artistic skill people are willing to pay for.

Mentioning your willingness to look for easy answers and conspiracy theories is not a sly dig at all. It is simply stating the truth. You find it impossible to concede anything which is why you will defend many idiots who sell you rubbish. You even believe in multivitamins which was largely debunked in the 1970's and yet you neck pills rather than eat a breakfast. You believe the bell curve. You believed Farrage, You believe any Tom, Dick and Harry if they confirm your belief that you are somehow special and superior. 'Smart' you would say. 'Harder working' you would say. 'Higher IQ' it is all the same thing, self delusion.

You are incredibly boring mate. That is your prerogative and certainly not something to harangue you over, but it is not an attribute, an asset with which you can claim some kind of superiority. You can choose not to have or raise children but you can not then claim to be in the same position to those that do. You can't replace real lived experience with book learning or data or statistics. I would never claim to be an expert on South Korea, or teaching grammar, yet you seem to think you know about my entire life, work, education and career history solely on the basis that you think you are better, or earn more or some other complete fantasy based on assumptions and conjecture.

I am not desperate at all. The reality of running a creative business as a freelancer like myself means that i have to ride the rollercoaster of highs and dips but that is the case with thousands of people in this country and millions in the world. Sure I liked earning £30 an hour as an independent support worker and mentor during term time for a few years but I could never spend that amount of hours away from home at the moment with the care needs I have. I am lucky that I can sometimes earn from doing nothing if i have a quiet week and I sell a print but I have not had a full week with no work for months now.

I was happy to get the interview I did because I would have had the opportunity to earn very good money as a creative producer as a job share (which is very rare) but that would not have meant me giving up my own business, it would just tick over. I am not rich and I am not poor, so I am not complaining and yet you want to paint it like that for some bizarre reason, as though that would justify your own choices by painting me as a failure. I am proud if what I have achieved but that is not an excuse for you and others to keep using my name and mentioning my location etc as though you will both be vindicated by fucking up my reputation or business. That is a bit weird.

I respect you enough to waste time replying to you on a bloody forum, hoping you might at least see another point of view outside of your bubble, but I find it hard to not respond to your ignorance and personal attacks. It's not just me either, look at how everyone rounds on Denilson, you yourself talking about sending him back to Nigeria. Poor form by any measure and I am not going to validate your daft idea that having a higher IQ than someone makes you better than them.

Nonsense.