The actual mean IQ rank-order of these degrees, from highest to lowest:
— i/o (@eyeslasho) February 17, 2025
1. Philosophy BA
2. Literature PhD
3. Computer science BS
4. Biology master's pic.twitter.com/eskJLqJYCs
Are those IQs inferred from standardized exams? Or from actual IQ exams? I wonder if robust measurements by academic levels and disciplines have ever been made.
Do you have a source on that?
Source?
A source. I need a source.
Sorry, I mean I need a source that explicitly states your argument. This is just tangential to the discussion.
Your IQ fluctuates throughout the day and from day to day. Also, familiarity with the test can affect subsequent scores. There's no truly reliable way to quantify intelligence.
(For irrelevance: my IQ tests at 168.)
I no longer believe in IQ now that it does not matter for me.
SAT's probably not a good indicator, it's a test taken before college, what's the spread after college. And you might be able to get something interesting taking the ingest SAT scores, then comparing with the graduating SAT scores. Got me wondering where they publish that data.
Uh. Naw, neighbor.
I trust your understanding of data. Yet every PhD program in Literature seem to be 20% literature and 80% Marx, Freud, Frankfurt, Foucault, Lacan, Derrida, Butler, A. Rich, Kristeva, and a gaggle of other post-structuralists and, Gott helfe uns, 'postmodern thinkers'.
Well, to be fricking fair, you need abstract thinking to understand postmodern thought which is why so many shitlibs fail hard at it.
Also helfe or hilf (the imperative form)?
That's got its own bias. Philosophy and Lit degree holders read a lot so naturally will score high on SAT and GRE (where the math portion is pretty basic, but reading comp questions could get tricky)
lol "not fair they read a bunch"
Are these creatures self aware?
Disguss
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Ackshually Nietzche wasn't a nihilist
!sophistry defend
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Maybe not an existential nihilist but Nietzsche was something of a moral nihilist.
But generally Nietzsche gets called a nihilist because people find his philosophy to be callous and antithetical to most other values, and they conflate a philosophy that stands against most value systems with one that's against the concept of having values, because they're r-slurred.
He also was a relativist more than a universalist, and so in a sense he was nihilistic about some people. Those who lean on slave morality, the weak, the infirm, etc. Basically what Plato and Aristotle would've called "natural slaves", what 1940's fascists would call untermensch and what modern Internet psuedointellectuals would call NPC's or degenerates.
Tldr: Nietzsche didn't believe life had no meaning, he believed your life had no meaning because you're gay and you suck.
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