How IQ and Intelligence Affect Our Life (or Not!) 

This story is amazing, because it has a lot of subtle elements that match my personal experience. The father (who represents the scientific consensus on IQ, because his mathematical interpretation of IQ graphs is perfectly explained) is presented as authoritarian and abusive, rather than calm, rational, and informed. It is, and was, impossible for he non-genius son to accept IQ information without taking it personally, and becoming resentful. The female teachers who administer the IQ tests are portrayed as callous and out-of-touch, even though they CORRECTLY explain the scientific consensus on IQ by stating that you can't raise your IQ score more than about ten points. Like before, it was impossible for the non-genius son to hear this IQ information without taking it personally, and becoming resentful. The non-genius (older) son is presented as the hero of the story for BOTH refusing to open the envelope AND learning to forgive his abusive father. However, whenever an abusive father exists, the most logical conclusion is that he abused all of his children in some way. So if the non-genius (older) child is a victim of his father's abuse then so is his younger, genius brother! There is no heroism in rejecting valid scientific conclusions about IQ, especially when you lose empathy for your younger brother. The older brother's resentment prevents him from saying things like, "My little brother was so young and vulnerable when my father started abusing him. It was my job, as an older brother, to protect him - but I was too focused on my own pain to even try." Or, "I cannot undo my past failures with my younger brother, but I can make an effort to understand his side of the story WITHOUT judging him, so he can hopefully stop being depressed and find love." Still, if the story was written to highlight how normal-intellect people come to resent intellectually smarter people, then it did a really good job.

Moral: IQ doesn't matter. Now here's 5 IQ questions. Good luck!

My IQ tells me this probably isn't a real story.

When a parent compares one sibling to the other that is when they have FAILED as a parent.

The fact that he didn’t open it just pissed me off

Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes.

Him: IQ doesn't matter and i'm not jealous of my brother Also Him: I dropped out of college and my brother's a depressed virgin.

5 seconds to answer a question? I can barely do that when someone asks me my favorite color.

tells a story about how you shouldn't worry about your IQ, then at the end tells you to do a short "IQ test" and put it in the comments lmao im done

lmao was expecting some message at the end, but this was all to stroke the dude's ego. "My brother never found love and is now depressed, while I have a great family" lol ok buddy

"So in short, IQ doesn't define your worth as a person. What matters is your character :) Also my brother's a depressed virgin and here's an IQ test bye"

im that 0.1% on the left side of the chart

The kid who walked out before the IQ exam,he grew up to be Albert Einstein

I don't believe IQ is a good measure of intelligence, but if you truly believed that your IQ score doesn't matter, then you wouldn't be afraid to open the letter.

The official answers to the tests at the end: 1- Batman 2- Batman 3- Batman 4- Batman 5- Batman The answer is always Batman

I took an intelligence test when I was about 55 and I did open the envelope. I found that I was in the top 2% and qualified for Mensa, but the real benefit for me was that it helped me understand myself better and feel more comfortable about being me.

This guy is clearly not over whatever he had against his brother and father.

Him:, I dont care about IQ. also him:, let me waste five minutes telling you how I aced that test giving correct answers and later tell you my brother is a depressive professor.

Hi. I really liked the story along with the art. Since you have asked the viewer to post his/her answers to the 5 IQ questions given at the end of the video, my answers are: 1. 2cm 2. Yes 3. 4 trips to the store 4. Cupboard 5. 256 since each number from 1 to 6 is in its 'to the power 4' form. I'm a psychology student so I enjoyed it even more. Thanks for sharing this video! 😊

*All of my best friends are at a class at grade 9 called “Creme section”... Meaning they are the most efficient and smartest in the high school campus. The gap between my grades and theirs are unbelievable, whenever I hang out with them, I feel like I don’t belong with them anymore. I feel out of place, this led to my depressing thoughts of never being good enough or acceptable anymore, it also led me into losing self confidence... So I isolated myself from them... I would always see my best friends hang out with the smart ones. I became really suicidal because of this... But because of this video, I didn’t drown myself. Thank you so much!* ❤️

He should have questioned about his father's IQ

Parent: "Why can't you be more like your brother/sister?" Me: "Simple. I'm not them."

His father sounds like a redditor

Stopped at the last part before the IQ questions is the best decision of my life!

Anyone else just wanna know what his IQ score was in that letter?😂

**iq test begins** Me: *screams in second language English*

"Knowledge is wealth, but our life is ran by our decisions." -said someone

"It doesn't matter how smart I am, but I am very wise!"

"I refused to open the envelope" *Then everyone clapped*

I guarantee you the average IQ at MIT is not 145

"CLEVER PEOPLE ARE MORE SUCCESSFUL THAN INTELIGENT PEOPLE "

Kind of a sad story. My parents were obsessed with IQ when I was growing up, and they knew that over-stimulating a child will increase his IQ. It worked, but as a result I was not smart enough to be in the "genius" class, while at the same time being "too fast" for the normal kids (If I wanted, I could reply to any question any teacher asked before he could even finish it). I spent most of my time in school in isolation. The first years were very painful because it was involuntary. But hey, at least it prepared me for the cold world. And college was a lot easier than school, so one thing for the other I guess.

After his father finished lecturing him on the importance of IQ, he should have replied, "I don't get it . . ."

5:42 “counting to the 12th letter of the alphabet would take way too long” idk man it took me 3 seconds but we’re running of time so let’s use process of elimination instead

5:50 this is the easiest question ever

i had to take an IQ test when i had to go to a psychiatrist due to depression and aggression problems. i always knew that my mom, my dad and my sisters are in the top 3% of the world and when it was my turn to take the test i was scared. i wanted to be so much better than my sisters and i was convinced, my mom would treat me as less, if i wouldn't be as smart as the rest of the family. i started to cry on the way to the psychiatrist and told my mom about everything i was worried about. she assured me that it would not be the case and she was right. also, my parents don't want me to know my results until i'm 18 and i can make my own decisions.

After watching video I decided not to answer the IQ question 😂😂

I feel like this video is very hypocritical “I m not competing with my brother but you saw how I turned out so much better than him at the end?” “IQ doesn’t matter... *a few seconds later* ... You wanna know your IQ? Here’s a test, good luck”

Ok the dad liking how his son is intelligent makes sense but why did he have to be rude to his other son

“It takes intelligence to do something right. But it takes wisdom to do what’s right.” I will remember this.

Then he went to Vietnam, became ping pong champion and married the girl of his childhood... the end.

Moral of the story: he is jealous of his brother.

the answer 1. 2 cm 2. yes 3. 4 4. cupboard 5. 256

So, now that your brother is suffering in his life, turn your attention to him. Give him love and let him know you are there for him. There's a lot of suffering involved in a gifted person's life.

Just because your brother is a genius doesn't mean you shouldn't be interested in knowing your own IQ. That reasonning seams pretty weak to me.

lol i love how the video is about the unimportance of an IQ score, and then proceeds to give us an IQ test!

Pov: the dad's IQ is lower than the one of that boy's (not the brother's)

Well, this made me feel dumb., but whatever, it's fine. That was a nice story.

It doesn’t take a over 40 IQ to figure this is a clickbait

so who else was yelling "open the damn letter"

Is that only me who is going through the comments to actually know the answers..😅

Those who really understood this video would stop this video the moment he said 5 questions to find your IQ... Signing off!!

I've seen Naruto FILLER that seemed more realistic.

"i decided that iq doesn't matter and I didn't open the envelope" meanwhile *here they are 5 iq questions for you*

Having a low IQ is an unfortunate sign that one will be limited in what they accomplish in life. This is a hard reality that many try to refute, because while IQ is just a number, it represents genuine raw mental performance that translates into real world capabilities. When it comes to visualizing concepts in computer programming, you need a decently high IQ to wrap your head around the unique concepts faced when writing code as efficiently as possible and managing computer resources in order to run and troubleshoot your code. With that said, IQ and the mental performance it represents doesn’t predestine where you’ll end up in life. There are tons of high IQ individuals out there that have ended up as serial killers or have toiled away at research that doesn’t accomplish anything significant. You can have an average IQ and still do SO MUCH good for the world, to the point where your name could wind up in the history books. Figures like Jesus Christ, Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Gandhi, etc. didn’t do anything that required a high amount of intelligence, even if they did possess it. They merely had the courage to do something no one else was willing to do, despite being capable. You don’t need a high IQ to refuse to give up your bus seat. You don’t need a high IQ to understand the power of non-violent protests. Sometimes you just need the initiative to do something that no one else was willing, but capable, of doing in order to be a hero…

To people that could read this comment - that kind of treatment Parents have to their children is actually showing some high levels of Narcissism, and how the Mom's total absence and neglects the need of the Elder Son is also a toxic behavior that should be dealt with.

Stupid people: I AM SO SMART!!!!! Smart people: *i am just stupid*

A story about extremely well-crafted click-bait. 70% interesting made up story, 30% deliberate BS to create controversy in the comments section.

I really liked this video! I am a high school math teacher, and usually start the year by telling my students that there is a very good chance that they are more intelligent than I, but I most certainly surpass them in wisdom. The comments I read seem weird and harsh, but I like the message here and what you took from being in a very unique situation of having a genius brother. IQ is the best metric applicable within social science, and can be a huge predictor of life success...but after a certain score, probably around 105, a person’s conscientiousness, interest, and motivation become more important in predicting future success. 1. 2 2. Yes 3. 4 4. Cupboard 5. 256

2:32 Okay but, I graduated university and still have trouble reading the map...

I can't believe I've wasted 8 minutes waiting him to open tge freaking envelope

So hilarious how he makes fun of his brother for being a lonely and depressed

My teacher always said it's not about how clever they are,it's about how much willpower you have

When I was in the 1st grade I had difficulty reading. To the point where my teacher actually called me stupid in a parent teacher conference. A series of events led me to getting an iq test and good news I’m not stupid, I had an iq of around 107. But it was explained to me that there are two different skills they test for. In simple terms a reading and math/logic section. In the math/logic I had an iq of around 132, but in the reading it was something like 86. I was also diagnosed with dyslexia. Luckily, I had parents and teachers that helped me and pushed me. Idk if I would have ended up where I am if she didn’t call me stupid, or if my parents just blamed her teaching and said nothing was wrong. I eventually developed reading techniques and with hard work I excelled through grade and high school and graduated with a BS in material science and engineering.

And then the high IQ kid became a supervillain. The end.

Him: "A high IQ apparently strongly predicts good grades, a good career, and even health and mortality and stuff." Also him: "My brother has IQ over 145, and is a depressed virgin, IQ doesn't matter guys."

Our IQ don't decide what we are but our actions are

1.- 8*4*x=64 x = 64/32 --- x = 2 The height is 2cm. 2. If there is the possibility that some bargles are munhatsens, then the answer is yes. Option A 3.- 4 times 4.- Cupboard 5. 1^4, 2^4, 3^4, __, 5^4, 6^4 Then the missing number should be 4^4 Answer: 256

Now here are 5 questions from a real IQ test. You have 5 seconds each. Me:slows down the video to 0.25 speed

"when you are done, PoST yOuR aNSweRs iN thE cOMMentS" After you JUST said you didn't have to prove anything to anybody.

Answers: 1. 2cm 2. B. no. 3. 4 4. Cupboard? 5. 256.

This story is really something, not only it right it telling the truth about ourselves and people around us...

FUN FACT: $10 incentive can increase your IQ results by up to 20 points

As a psychology student i can say this whole story is an creative writing assignment

I didn't look at the qustions.. thanks for uploading! :-D

Very motivational video presented in an amazing way. Loved it

Well, this was a waste of time.

IQ doesn't matter than why were you so afraid to open the result?

math has rules, math is just numbers. it dosen’t dictate intelligence, intelligence is bending the rules and finding ways around everything.

Celebrating every child for who he or she is - is very important. Love, support , kindness, understanding from parents can make a child's life great & make for happy & balanced adults. Also -AVERAGE IS GOOD - IT MUST BE CELEBRATED

*After claiming that IQ status don't matter, you were afraid to open your IQ test results. Also, after claiming you're not competing with your brother, you talked about how he is a smart guy without a woman in his life and you're the one with a woman in his life.* *You need time to heal bro.*

I didn't understand the message this video was trying to convey.

I needed this story. Thank you

*_With smartness comes pain, the pain of knowing too much_* *_Because that too much will hurt you so much_*

7:15 "It's almost impossible to improve your score by more than 10 points." Clearly, you haven't watched Rick and Morty.

I know myself. I'm not really good at mathematics, so I skipped the IQ questions and went through the comments section.

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. "Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had. From a book. On 1st Chap. The 1st Verse of "The Great Gatsby" By F. Scott Fitzgerald

We shouldn't compare siblings amongst them . Each child is talented . No matter how much weak they are , the still have at least one good benefit in them .one is better than the other in different times .

*My IQ tells me that the floor is made out of floor*

“IQ is meaningless, heres 5 obvious questions so that everyone can be validated by their intelligence!”

1: 2cm 2: Yes 3: 4 4: Cupboard 5: honestly don't know

“Wechsler IQ” takes the Wonderlic.

Plottwist: The brief in the envelope gave a higher iq score than his brother.

Wow, that is just... do not do this format ever again. You laced this thing with a lot of toxic and misrepresented data.

When I was diagnosed with dyslexia, dyscalculia, ADD and autism, I was given an IQ test that said I have an IQ under 80. This was before even trained professionals really understood how learning disabilities can give false scores due to the disabilities making those with it very bad test takers. For years I thought I was just absurdly stupid. Even my parents thought I belonged in special education, which I didn't. All I needed was a teacher that knew how to teach children like myself. I'm not non-verbal, my cognitive abilities are great, and I'm even so aware of my body that I'm a natural dancer. I can take care of myself with almost no struggle as well. But unfortunately, after being told I have disabilities that will cripple me all my life and my IQ is very low, my confidence was crushed because of this and the fact that my public school teachers were abusive and so were my classmates, I never made it past the 9th grade. To this day I'm still technically uneducated. I've tried getting a GED 6 times in ten years and the years of cruelty and self hatred always come back to hurt me. People around me try justifying it all by saying "pain purifies the soul" or "you have your entire life ahead of you." While both statements may be true, I was a child for the first 18 years of my life I knew nothing but pain every day. And isolation. And I may have a life in front if me, I had one behind me too, and while most everyone around me was enjoying their time, getting A's without effort and getting in pictures with their friends, I was just trying not to have a panic attack and worrying about disappointing my parent's further. I'm 28, chronically depressed, bitter, I've never had a job that pays more than $10 an hour, I'm stuck and I dont think I'll be around much longer.

Question 1 Height of the box- 2cm ,Question 2 B-NO. QUESTION 3 4 times, Question 4 COFFEE, Question 5 256

Playing minecraft can make u a BIG BRAIN with 1001 iQ thx its my first time getting this much like and ive change the 1000 iQ to 1001 iQ my bad

5:26. I disagree with the answer. The opposite of irrefutable is refutable. Refuted refers to an actual event occurring in the psst, not a concept event, (or an adjective of an object describing its susceptibility to the occurrence of some event unto it), and thus analytically speaking, they cannot even in principle have ‘opposing meanings’, because they aren’t even the same kind of word.

I strongly believe that our abilities are not fixed and we can improve at anything on which we invest our undivided focus, time and hardwork

Some studies have shown that it's not the # of correct answers you get but rather your persistency at getting the right answers that is the best correlation to success.