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Anonymous Mon 23 Nov 10:54:48 2020 No.12376781 View Reply Original Report

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Is this true /sci/? Are 97% of the population literally retarded?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Nov 2020 11:02:39 No.12376796 Report

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if only you knew how bad things really are

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Nov 2020 11:11:21 No.12376811 Report

Quoted By: >>12376824

>everyday tasks
I've literally never done any of that.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Nov 2020 11:13:37 No.12376817 Report

Quoted By: >>12376899

>>12376781
>almost 50% of the population, according to the courts, don’t have rights as citizens
Why do they get to vote?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Nov 2020 11:16:26 No.12376824 Report

Quoted By: >>12376828

>>12376811
>never look at total bank deposit
>never check when your driver's license expires
>never locate an intersection on a street map
>never compare credit cards
I would call you a NEET, but a NEET would have to calculate SSI benefits. Are you a mountain hermit?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Nov 2020 11:17:37 No.12376828 Report

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>>12376824
More or less.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Nov 2020 11:52:12 No.12376873 Report

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>>12376781
I read the article, wow didn't know that iodine was that important to prevent low IQ at the fetal stage
here it is for who wants to read it btw
https://www.centroeinaudi.it/images/stories/bdl_online/196online_savulescu.pdf

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Anonymous Mon 23 Nov 2020 12:02:21 No.12376894 Report

Quoted By: >>12377568 >>12381966

wait is this shit true?
there's that many people in the US using modafinil in academia?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Nov 2020 12:05:43 No.12376896 Report

Quoted By: >>12377579

>>12376781
>22% can't locate an intersection on a street map
americans...explain yourselves

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Nov 2020 12:09:19 No.12376899 Report

Quoted By: >>12376912 >>12377607 >>12378138

>>12376817
The republicans legislate that the 50% get a vote, otherwise repubs would never win another election

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Nov 2020 12:19:15 No.12376912 Report

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>>12376899
>voting for either hyper-industrial capitalist controlled party

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Nov 2020 12:29:05 No.12376925 Report

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>>12376781
These numbers confirm my personal bias and I like it. Also, I choose to believe that the article is trivial in justifying these biases in light of these perfectly correct and impossible to incorrectly calculate statistics.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Nov 2020 13:50:19 No.12377051 Report

Quoted By: >>12377067 >>12381061

>>12376873
So are you saying if we start putting iodine in Somalias water supply they'll stop being collectively retarded in a single generation?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Nov 2020 13:55:05 No.12377062 Report

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>>12376912
>implying im american
>implying i dont vote third party
cope

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Nov 2020 13:57:00 No.12377067 Report

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>>12377051
not that anon
IF, and thats a big IF, somalias average IQ is low due to iodine deficiency, then fixing iodine deficiency will lead to a higher average.

Now, do YOU think that somalias average IQ is partly or entirely reduced due to iodine deficiency?

Now you have your answer, bud

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Anonymous Mon 23 Nov 2020 15:52:34 No.12377296 Report

Quoted By: >>12377306 >>12377673

>>12376781
This has to be fake, probably they set up some trick question in the tasks instead of normal ones?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Nov 2020 15:58:22 No.12377306 Report

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>>12377296
>Can't deal with fact that great majority of people are dumb

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Anonymous Mon 23 Nov 2020 16:05:52 No.12377320 Report

Quoted By: >>12377325 >>12377346 >>12377510 >>12377625 >>12378620 >>12381989

>>12377306
Common folks aren't as dumb as you'd like to believe, take a breather from your ivory tower and see the real world sometimes

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Nov 2020 16:10:33 No.12377325 Report

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>>12377320
No, I do know common folks and the make alot of dumb decisions, dont' get me wrong, some narrow stuff common folks are pretty good, but overall they tend to make dumb decisions alot.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Nov 2020 16:16:24 No.12377346 Report

Quoted By: >>12377644

>>12377320
they literally are though. you can empathize and connect with other people on a human level but when math or basic knowledge comes up you'd be surprised to find out that even having some college puts you miles ahead of the average person. A bit over the majority (66%) have some college. Only 45 percent of the US population has a college degree at all. Think about that, then think about how braindead a lot of the general population of college seemed. That's a narrowed down majority of people.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Nov 2020 17:17:23 No.12377510 Report

Quoted By: >>12377706

>>12377320
Clearly they are, and you are one of them, because a quick search for NALS brings up the website for the National Center for Education Statistics, which has the test questions for the assessments from 1985, 1992 and 2003.
https://nces.ed.gov/naal/sample.asp

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Nov 2020 17:31:12 No.12377568 Report

Quoted By: >>12377856

>>12376894
good for them. access to modafinil should be a human right. it's luddites who are denying us access.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Nov 2020 17:34:48 No.12377579 Report

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>>12376896
It should be easy, just look for the star that shows "you are here".

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Nov 2020 17:41:14 No.12377607 Report

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>>12376899
Is today opposite day?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Nov 2020 17:45:20 No.12377625 Report

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>>12377320
You're wrong, the average person is an idiot and smartlets aren't much better. The reality is that intelligence is overrated and doesn't matter as much as you people think. Frankly, in most cases being intelligent is a net loss for quality of life

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Nov 2020 17:49:44 No.12377644 Report

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>>12377346
College degree doesn't mean shit, I took a year of college before dropping out due to mental problems, and the math course was easier than the shit I did in high school. There was a class teaching web design and I almost fell asleep from boredom. Modern college outside of stem shit just looks like a grift to me; if you can write an essay you can pass a non-stem and writing an essay doesn't require intelligence beyond verbal communication.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Nov 2020 17:56:21 No.12377673 Report

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>>12377296
Depends on how the test was administered. Academics can be blind to factors which skew results.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Nov 2020 18:02:27 No.12377706 Report

Quoted By: >>12377735 >>12385389

>>12377510
>Okay, I will do your test.
>What the fuck are these dumb assed questions?
>I feel insulted
>Am I getting paid for this shit? No.
>Put down any answer or none = I am out of here.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Nov 2020 18:08:16 No.12377735 Report

Quoted By: >>12377797

>>12377706
https://nces.ed.gov/naal/pdf/2007464.pdf
Try reading sometime.
>Household interviews took place in respondents’ homes; prison interviews generally took place in a classroom or library in the prison.
>The entire survey will take approximately 90 minutes to complete, and you will be paid $30 for your participation.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Nov 2020 18:21:42 No.12377797 Report

Quoted By: >>12377803 >>12385389

>>12377735
>Okay, I will do your test.
>What the fuck are these dumb assed questions?
>I feel insulted
>Am I getting paid for this shit? Yes.
>Put down any answer or none = I am out of here.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Nov 2020 18:23:27 No.12377803 Report

Quoted By: >>12377909

>>12377797
>no one other than me has ever considered response bias

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Nov 2020 18:29:53 No.12377828 Report

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>>12376781
Wait a second, being able to calculate the cost of adding carpet to a room is almost good enough for Mensa membership?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Nov 2020 18:36:47 No.12377856 Report

Quoted By: >>12377888 >>12379583

>>12377568
>modafinil
does this actually work for you? It does absolutely nothing for me.

Only things ive found work
>nicotine gum (literal IQ booster, massive amounts of proof for this, look it up)
>low dose adderall

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Nov 2020 18:43:48 No.12377888 Report

Quoted By: >>12380179

>>12377856
I've used it a few times to learn for exams and it did wonders for retention, it's baffling that off label use is criminalized just because there are long term risks. It's a drug that can turn dysfunctional wrecks into productive members of society. How is that not win-win for everyone? Why are ''''''ethics committees'''' so against performance enhancing drugs?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Nov 2020 18:51:02 No.12377909 Report

Quoted By: >>12377971 >>12385389

>>12377803
>yes I considered response bias!
So how did you "consider" response bias exactly?
>You have to take my word for it!

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Nov 2020 18:54:54 No.12377933 Report

Quoted By: >>12378036

>>12377607
EBIC RESPONSE DAWG
I too browse le epoic r/thedonald XD

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Nov 2020 19:01:27 No.12377971 Report

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>>12377909
https://nces.ed.gov/naal/pdf/2007464.pdf
Once again, try doing some reading. Sections 3 through 6.
The assessments were conducted by interviewers in person. It is incredibly easy to recognize whether someone is putting down random answers.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Nov 2020 19:14:13 No.12378036 Report

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>>12377933
Which party believes people too stupid to be able to get a photo id should vote?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Nov 2020 19:39:27 No.12378138 Report

Quoted By: >>12378503

>>12376899
what is the average IQ of an African-American?
for which party do 90%+ of African-Americans vote?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Nov 2020 21:00:24 No.12378503 Report

Quoted By: >>12378515

>>12378138
Yeah, but what about Karens and soccer moms? They're all Republicans.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Nov 2020 21:03:11 No.12378515 Report

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>>12378503
And they are white
That's all you need to know about intelligence

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Nov 2020 21:21:34 No.12378609 Report

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>>12376781
I would feel retarded for using a calculator.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Nov 2020 21:25:45 No.12378620 Report

Quoted By: >>12379542

>>12377320
Have you ever worked in a restaurant or warehouse or anything like that? The "half of people are retarded" meme is definitely true

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Anonymous Tue 24 Nov 2020 01:53:30 No.12379542 Report

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>>12378620
It's OK. I'm retarded too so it feels pretty comfy.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Nov 2020 02:12:01 No.12379583 Report

Quoted By: >>12379780 >>12379801 >>12380973

>>12377856
>nicotine gum
https://nootropicsexpert.com/nicotine/#nicotine-boosts-iq

This is some fascinating shit

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Nov 2020 03:01:44 No.12379780 Report

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>>12379583
That's fucking weird bro.
Maybe I should give up ADHD meds and chew some nicorette instead.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Nov 2020 03:05:17 No.12379795 Report

Quoted By: >>12379805

>>12376781
>correlates with an IQ of level 96^3

who the fuck has an IQ that high?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Nov 2020 03:06:57 No.12379801 Report

Quoted By: >>12380034

>>12379583
>nootropics
Wow, haven't seen that word since Fruitopia and Stereo MCs were popular. Any advancements since then worth noting?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Nov 2020 03:07:58 No.12379805 Report

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>>12379795
Probably means look at footnote three for context.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Nov 2020 04:03:32 No.12380034 Report

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>>12379801
I have no idea, first time I've even heard the word. They cite some actual papers though, so that's something.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Nov 2020 04:10:29 No.12380051 Report

Quoted By: >>12380085

>>12376781
>I'm in the 97th percentile of the population
>For knowing that the cost to carpet a room is cost/area * area
I want to be aliven't

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Nov 2020 04:23:58 No.12380085 Report

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>>12380051
That's impossible, anon. It can't be THAT bad.

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Anonymous Tue 24 Nov 2020 04:30:18 No.12380105 Report

Quoted By: >>12380126 >>12380913 >>12380915 >>12380927 >>12380945 >>12381943 >>12382053 >>12382063

>>12376781
>this is the carpet question
I thought maybe the reason so many people couldn't answer it was maybe the room was a complex shape, but it's literally a rectangle.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Nov 2020 04:38:30 No.12380126 Report

Quoted By: >>12380212 >>12380214 >>12380915

>>12380105
>room given in square feet
>price given in square yards (unit nobody who sells carpet would use)

eh, I could understand if you're not observant how you might fuck that up. That doesn't necessarily mean you're dumb

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Nov 2020 04:57:38 No.12380179 Report

Quoted By: >>12380201

>>12377888
>there are long term risks.
Such as?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Nov 2020 05:05:35 No.12380201 Report

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>>12380179
memory loss

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Nov 2020 05:12:00 No.12380212 Report

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>>12380126
Checked Home Depot's website. They list carpet prices in both sq ft and sq yd. Square yard was more common pre-2000 and still is the standard for wholesale.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Nov 2020 05:12:15 No.12380214 Report

Quoted By: >>12380915

>>12380126
Bump. Was gonna point that out. It's not a hard problem, but converting units? Especially in imperial?

I think people are just lazy. Unless I had to, I'd be like "fuck that."

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Nov 2020 08:54:42 No.12380691 Report

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>>12376781
An IQ of 96 cubed? Holy shit..

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Nov 2020 09:17:12 No.12380754 Report

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This just reinforces the fact that humanity's station ultimately is because of a handful of great men, and a percentage of sufficiently competent people, dragging society forward through the ages.

The common man exists only to support the infrastructure needed to support the common man, with the tiniest sliver skimmed off for useful work by his betters.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Nov 2020 10:47:24 No.12380913 Report

Quoted By: >>12380944

>>12380105
It says 17% answered correctly, so why does OP say 3?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Nov 2020 10:49:45 No.12380915 Report

Quoted By: >>12380927

>>12380105
>>12380126
>>12380214
Did anyone here know there are 9 square feet in a square yard? I didn't.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Nov 2020 10:58:03 No.12380927 Report

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>>12380105
>>12380915
no, i have no idea how to solve it since i dont know what a square yard is

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Nov 2020 11:14:13 No.12380944 Report

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>>12380913
OP is probably that question AND the credit card one. 17% squared comes out to about 3%.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Nov 2020 11:16:23 No.12380945 Report

Quoted By: >>12381885

>>12380105
$113.88
am I in mensa yet

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Nov 2020 11:38:52 No.12380973 Report

Quoted By: >>12381074

>>12379583
>all participants were smokers
>they were told not to smoke before the test
>10 samples

Huh... So you guys are also retarded...

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Nov 2020 12:25:15 No.12381043 Report

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>>12376781
You know how you can write programs to do some pretty wild stuff using only a small amount of storage and operations, and how you don't really need to know what you're doing to just copy the stuff other people are writing?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Nov 2020 12:32:19 No.12381061 Report

Quoted By: >>12381073

>>12377051
I think iodine can't change genetics anon... maybe it can boost 10-15 IQ points but not more.
If an african has an IQ of 60 and you boost it to 75 it's like putting your old pentium 1 on overclock while cooling it with liquid nitrogen

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Nov 2020 12:35:46 No.12381073 Report

Quoted By: >>12381078 >>12381087

>>12381061
Not gonna do the math here but increasing the standard deviation of a population would give you a history-changing number of additional geniuses

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Nov 2020 12:36:07 No.12381074 Report

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>>12380973
I second this, they literally did not smoke for 2 hours before the experiment lol.
Now try with non smoking people.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Nov 2020 12:37:37 No.12381078 Report

Quoted By: >>12381965

>>12381073
>would give you a history-changing number of additional geniuses
you start seeing geniuses above an IQ of 130... that's pretty rare in Africa where the middle of the bell curve is 60-70. Even with iodine at 75-80 you would have a micro amount of genius outliers.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Nov 2020 12:40:18 No.12381087 Report

Quoted By: >>12381089

>>12381073
by the way there is no proof at all that most africans are iodine deficient... iodine can be found in natural food, particularly fish, beans, milk and meat just in smaller amounts. The boost would definitely not be a solid 15 but more a 6-7 I think.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Nov 2020 12:41:27 No.12381089 Report

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>>12381087
and bananas

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Nov 2020 18:02:26 No.12381885 Report

Quoted By: >>12381976

>>12380945
Mensa takes the top 2% but we only know that you're in the top 3%. You have a 2/3 chance to get in, so the real question is, do you switch doors when Monty Hall offers?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Nov 2020 18:16:16 No.12381943 Report

Quoted By: >>12382106

>>12380105
I can't believe this is possible. 17%? You multiply 9 and 12, divide by 9 (could just ignore both 9s), and multiply by 9.49. That's third or fourth grade level. How did only 17% of people get it

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Nov 2020 18:19:45 No.12381960 Report

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If you find this surprising you are the 97%

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Nov 2020 18:22:24 No.12381965 Report

Quoted By: >>12382259

>>12381078
110-120 is all you really need for competence

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Nov 2020 18:22:32 No.12381966 Report

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>>12376894
I unironically take it for narcolepsy and can confirm cognitive benefits.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Nov 2020 18:26:18 No.12381976 Report

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>>12381885
lol

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Nov 2020 18:34:29 No.12381989 Report

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>>12377320
I'm beginning to question that since covid hit here, and coming from a immunology background dealing with the contradictions from these folks.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Nov 2020 18:56:00 No.12382053 Report

Quoted By: >>12382067

>>12380105
{[(9/3)*(12/3)]*9.49]*.59=67.1892

The answer is $67.19

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Nov 2020 18:58:39 No.12382063 Report

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>>12380105
[(9/3)*(12/3)]*9.49=113.88

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Nov 2020 19:00:21 No.12382067 Report

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>>12382053
I would guess a substantial amount of test subjects made that mistake.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Nov 2020 19:13:17 No.12382106 Report

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>>12381943
Go to Wal-Mart, walk around looking at people and listen to things they're saying to each other. Don't look at the products or shop. Just pay attention to the people shopping there. Then you'll understand. If not, go to a dollar store in the blue collar part of town or to the ghetto and repeat the experiment.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Nov 2020 19:50:53 No.12382247 Report

Quoted By: >>12382346 >>12382363 >>12383230 >>12383258

>>12376781
the global average IQ is around 83
83 is the minimum cut off to be useful to the US military
half the world is too dumb to be a soldier...

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Nov 2020 19:53:07 No.12382259 Report

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>>12381965
~106 is rougly the minimum for a technical degree

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Nov 2020 20:25:22 No.12382346 Report

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>>12382247
>half of the world population is genetically african
well the mistery is solved...

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Nov 2020 20:28:58 No.12382363 Report

Quoted By: >>12383258

>>12382247
>half of the world population is genetically either african or arab or low caste poo
well the mistery is solved it seems

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Anonymous Tue 24 Nov 2020 20:41:25 No.12382428 Report

Quoted By: >>12383230

>>12376781
99% of the population. I consider anyone with an iq lower than 200 retarded.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Nov 2020 23:32:03 No.12383230 Report

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>>12382247
>>12382428
t. didn't real the article
That article is about the US and NALS level 2 correlates with an IQ of 96

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Nov 2020 23:35:44 No.12383258 Report

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>>12382247
>>12382363
t. didn't real the article
That article is about the US and NALS level 2 correlates with an IQ of 96

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 25 Nov 2020 03:35:07 No.12384377 Report

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All of these questions use math you are supposed to teach to elementary school kids, and even less complex than the stuff I need to calculate knitting a sweater. What the fuck.

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Anonymous Wed 25 Nov 2020 13:31:49 No.12385389 Report

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>>12377909
>>12377797
>>12377706
so this is the power of brainlet cope
holy shit

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