• amniotic druid@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    arrow-down
    15
    ·
    edit-2
    14 hours ago

    Low IQ people shouldn’t breed and I believe this 100% at this point

    E: this is literally the argument of Idiocracy btw

    • mobyduck648@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      3 hours ago

      Personally I think the group of people it is most essential to prevent the reproduction of is eugenicists.

    • khepri@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      15 hours ago

      Maybe we could ALL use a little pause on the breeding for a mo lol. While the movie does open on the premise that “dumb people having more kids than smart people is what caused this world”, I really don’t think that ends up being the point of the film. It’s pretty obvious that unrestrained corporations, popularity politics, and entertainment that relies on cheap sex and violence are the actual villains of the film, not the poor idiots caught in the web of all that.

      • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        15 hours ago

        It actually changes all the time. It uses mostly questions and time constraints that someone with little education can accurately take and the median score of 100 is adjusted based on the average of recent (ish) people who have taken the tests.

        It does only test specific things of “intelligence” and isn’t all encompassing. Hypothetically speaking, Mozart would be considered a genius in regards to music, even if he would have scored an 80 on an IQ test, because what an IQ tests checks has fuck all to do with music composition and wouldn’t tell you a thing about it.

        IQ is just a data point.

        • Tanis Nikana@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          16 hours ago

          Honestly, same. Someone asks me what my IQ is, or however it comes up in conversation, and I say it’s ninety-six. I actually have no idea what the real answer is, or if it’s an idea worth chasing, but ninety-six is right on the small side of average that it just stalls that discussion out, and then we can talk about more interesting things, like turtles.

    • DigDoug@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      16 hours ago

      People who care about IQ don’t get laid, which is really handy because they shouldn’t breed.

      • Solumbran@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        15 hours ago

        Yes! People keep on thinking that they’re so smart by saying “see, idiocracy was riiiight” when the movie basically tries to say that stupidity is hereditary, and that dumb people (understand: the sub-race) need to be eradicated through eugenics.

        That is such a nazi stance, and there’s a gigantic amount of morons that don’t see it and keep on screaming “idiocracyyyyy” anytime they can.