Donald Trump appeared to describe a dementia screening he underwent at Walter Reed Medical Center as a 'very hard' IQ test while speaking with reporters inside Air Force One
  • Asafum@feddit.nlEnglish
    12·
    18 hours ago

    “They have these terribly difficult questions like continue a sequence: 1, a, 2, b, 3, c… I’m such a genius I managed to solve 1/4 of it when most don’t even take the test!”

  • Coelacanth@feddit.nuEnglish
    61·
    17 hours ago

    Again!? Didn’t he already do this during his last term? Or did he forget the whole “person, woman, man, camera, TV” bit? I guess if he has dementia it makes sense that he forgot now that I say it out loud.

  • Lembot_0005@lemy.lolEnglish
    92·
    18 hours ago

    Actually it is a good idea to have some health/intelligence requirements for governmental roles.

      • theolodis@feddit.orgEnglish
        3·
        17 hours ago

        IQ is highly biased towards western societies, but I’d argue that you could expect a president to get a 30 minute briefing and summarise it afterwards, for example?

        • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.socialEnglish
          2·
          13 hours ago

          IQ isn’t biased towards western societies.

          Individual IQ tests are biased towards the culture of the person who made the test, and the actual tests are also biased towards the tester’s biases.

          If those biases are racial, the bias is racial. The original test maker was trying to identify students who needed extra help, btw, and the concept itself isn’t racial or pseudoscience, but the popular implementation is.

          The test is a test, and people think too much of it and try to use it in a way they shouldn’t, like it’s a magic “you’re this smart for life” number which it simply isn’t and wasn’t meant to be.