Only months after Donald Trump Jr. floated Laura Loomer as a White House press secretary, Loomer used her platform on Rumble to launch into a half-hour long racist screed against Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Somalians living in America, birthright citizenship, and Muslims. Loomer begun the show by referring to Rep. Omar as a "black dog" whose "district is literally Somalia," and claimed that Omar's constituents are "breeding like rabbits. I guess they've never heard of something called birth control. Unfortunate for us. Unfortunate for Western civilization" and "modern-day jihadi welfare queens." After claiming that Rep. Omar's relatives "sleep in caves and have sex with goats in Al-Shabaab," Loomer declared "I really do believe in IQ science," "some of the people that have the lowest IQs are Somalis," and claimed that Rep. Omar is "so inbred that they have an IQ that is legally classified as mental retardation": Loomer also ran with a blatant mistranslation of Omar's speech about the Republic of Somaliland. Later, she also used line taken blatantly out of context of Omar speaking about 9/11.
I also believe in IQ science.
Specifically the science showing that conservatives have low IQs.
What the science actually suggests is this:
Which is something plenty of conservatives lack the functional literacy to understand.
Really interesting! Particularly that it’s childhood intelligence, not adult, that determines later prejudice, suggesting that racist outlooks are deeply ingrained and set early in life. It’s not clear if the second analysis considers contemporary reasoning skills, but I also suspect early and adult intelligence are highly correlated
It’s also important to keep in mind that a lot of intelligence testing is meant for use on children. It’s a lot easier to gauge “how developed is your brain compared to what we expect at your age” than “how smart is this 25 year old”.
I suppose it is possible that they only studied childhood intelligence in the study.
I’m curious if the intelligence tests somehow account for the quality of their education.edit: it says yes right there in the abstract lol oopsYou really shouldn’t. IQ is mostly bullshit, the only thing it measures accurately is how well you do in an IQ test.
Exactly. An Amazonian hunter-gatherer might be a genius. He might be able to do all sorts of prodigy-level things if he were raised in a modern Western society. And maybe as it is, he’s the best hunter-gatherer in his tribe because of how smart he is.
But give him an IQ test (for the purposes of this thought experiment you’re somehow able to do it despite him not knowing how to read) and he could very likely fail it simply because it is based on a Western view of the world for which he has no frame of reference.
I once did a music video for a guy who was the most amazing country music fiddle player you would have ever seen. Like fantastic complex improvisations when he played. I don’t even like much country and I was blown away. When we had him sign the contract, he could barely write his own name.
Was he a genius or was he an idiot? Was his IQ high or low?
Don’t worry, there’s plenty of precedent for giving IQ tests to people in languages they can’t read and then judging them for doing badly at it!
Was the guy’s name Johnny and did he win a fiddle battle against the devil
It was not and he did not, but he definitely played fiddle far better than Charlie Daniels.
Every time I hear that song I think the devil played it better. ;-p
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