Jordan Peterson ~ Understanding IQ & How You Measure It 

To know you're dumb is another level of intelligence common in a few people.

😂😂😂😂 feel the same

It’s cool bro me too… though I always suspected i wasn’t as smart as I thought 🤣

Iq is linked to income, income is linked to happiness. Happiness is deterministic.

@@johnsummers7121 from my understanding consciousness is linked to income. IQ of course also plays a role. I have good traits across the board but my one negative one is low consciousnesses. I took JPs personality test and did some self reflection. I need to force myself to become more industrious and things should fall into place

Good for you! as long as you respect and understand the 80% of other humans who will never be able to reach your heights.

if 141 is your IQ, then I meant 99% not 80%

Great, .... 😊 I don't know my IQ... but I am a Dipl.-Ing. Electrical Engineering, TU, Technical University, German Redbrick 😊. Didn't you waste your talent? I would expect a little bit more. IQ 140 and no result? Don't get it?! No research, MIT, Y or H? Member of a research team, Nobel Price as a goal, no shame if not get it, ... but no try? Really sad. 😢

That is... ambitious

Exactly this. I have respect for Peterson. That being said, psychology is closer to reading a crystal ball than it is to a real science. The entire field is basically wild speculation that oversimplifies extremely complicated processes. The idea that you can model a human brain, which is an aggregate of billions of neurons with trillions of synapses, using 5 super simple categories is just plain dumb (it's borderline delusional). At most you can say that those are high-level descriptors that generally apply to an average-case scenario but that's really it.

@@Entropic0 granted we can't produce any form of science that could measure and monitor human fysiology that accurately without taking hundreds of years to produce any usefull or meaningful data. Not yet anyway. And as much as I don't like the guess work in psychology. Psychiatry can be accused of pretty much the same thing. To give an example: we can't tell you with certainty if autism is a real disorder or if it's a combination of several complicated biases. I can tell you with certainty that that is a fact.

​@@Entropic0 So you're saying its plain dumb (borderline delusional) to even try to understand the psychology of humans? I think it's waaaay better to try than to not to. Even if it's "crystal ball" science. We wouldn't get anywhere if people didn't try. Or else we'd be back to thinking that people with schizophrenia or tourettes are getting possessed by demons and should be burned at the stake. The big 5 catagories is an attempt to understand human personalities. Of course it's not perfect. But it's what we have that's work in progress. It's only until we test this theory out in the real world can we see what will work and won't work. (And they have, just look at the studies conducted on it's validity on countless subjects.) You seem to be only looking at how it won't work. Agreeableness, is a measure on prosocial-ness in people. Are you saying you can't measure how prosocial (trusting, affectionate, altruistic, cooperative, polite, kind, friendly, etc.) people are compared to each other? That some people can't be less or more prosocial than others? That's what you're saying if that believing in that measure is just borderline delusional. You don't need to know every neuron in the brain to understand others my dude.

We ignore a lot of types of intelligence in the IQ test, basically only verbal/linguistic, Logic/math and visual/ spatial are in the test. Other important sign of intelligence like interpersonal, intrapersonal, body kinesthetic, musical etc... are not tested.

How is that possible? I am curious

Man you're brilliant those scores are very very difficult to get

@@flelite3994 actually Michelle would hint at being a girl. Don’t ask questions she’s just a genius

I’m not sure, but reading, although I do it, is still painful 😣

If you were smart then you would notice a tests that gives you 2 different results is bs.

In crystallography you also have three more planes called d2x d2y and dx2. Interseting to use that analogy for ither traits. I have a 4th dimension which started out as "difficult" and transformed it into "plain old grumpy"

what about image creation and design of music with AI's? do you think that this is potencial creativity?

@@dubalierfigueroa9067 yes it is. to my understanding, ai has 3d intelligence.

Creativity can be suggestive like artistic creativity but in the case of IQ tests, it measures the capacity for problem solving.

A 121 IQ places you in the top 10% of the population... It is not average!

You have zero control over all predecided factors of your entire life

No, he said the most important factor ‘we can measure’ and that’s a world of difference. IQ only accounts for 4% of the variance in success so it’s exceedingly unlikely that you’ll succeed or fail because of your IQ alone. There are many other factors that play a role we can’t directly measure or generalize within a population all of which are potential candidates for ‘single most important factor’. Regardless, they’ll still probably only tell a fraction of the story.

there may be many dimentions in which "success in life" can be defined. Also remember 0.5 correlation with income, that means there is a 75% of an unexplained variance there.

No

Not at all. An idiot with a plan is always ahead of a genius without one

@@danhoebbel2250 Salty dumb person XD ^

@@danhoebbel2250 shut up

Yes, Wechsler scales are great ! I like them a lot.

"what's the capital of Georgia" ? Those type of questions are not supposed to be in an IQ test, hard to standardize across countries, only your answer would make sense.... and as an American it should be getting you extra points.

@@PierreH1968 German.

@@martinivers489 you made my point! LOL

No you know that answer now LOL. What is the capital of Lesotho 🇱🇸. If you are American (USA) I'll give you bonus points. LOL.

Lol MENSA obvs

its like saying a blue whales brain have more braincells than in the human body. the point is, how much of it can you actually use?

Those tests are fake, the methodology of IQ is faulty, you can't just measure the brain with quiz tests. If we could use MRI technology to see how the brain performs directly, and create a metric off of that, would be a lot better.

I think genius ranks at 140+. You are close though

I measured at 127 lol

It’s assuming you’ve taken a different test a few times

It's not often I find a YT comment that actually makes me really think, so thank you for that. I think you really nailed it with the first question, and you could probably write your entire thesis about that one topic. Call it "the reliability of IQ testing with regard to sleep deprivation." TLDR; I'm not an expert, and I don't have a solution to the problem you proposed. To put it simply, sleep is unbelievably important in virtually ever aspect of your entire life. I haven't done the research myself and I'm not an expert on the subject, but I consider myself to be well-enough read to know how significant of an impact that sleep deprivation can have on your cognitive ability. More importantly, sleep deprivation over extended periods of time, say weeks or months or even years can almost certainly affect your IQ at a "fundamental level," meaning that you will progressively get more and more "smooth-brained" - not just bad at taking tests. Just to add some more complexity - your subjective sense of well-being as a result of the quality of your sleep is very unreliable. Meaning you could wake up and spend the day feeling like a million bucks but actually be more physically and cognitively impaired than if you were legally drunk. Of course this also works the opposite way - you could feel groggy as shit but technically be well-rested and ready to kick ass. Either way, I think it's safe to say that your test score would plummet dramatically if you took it while you were drunk lmao. This problem runs so deep that it most likely effects the entire sum of all IQ tests taken in the modern era - especially those taken in first world countries. We spend so much of our lives at war with melatonin (the endogenous "sleepiness chemical"), because electricity has allowed humanity to no longer be slaves of the day/night cycle. It makes me wonder if anybody has done a study on the relationship between chronic sleep deprivation and IQ. I would even speculate that you could see a pattern emerge based off of geographical location. If you live in a big city with tons of lights, noise, night-life, or 24 hour industry, you most likely have worse sleep than someone who lives their life as a cattle rancher in bum-fuck Texas where they get to see the stars every night. I don't have a solution that isn't better than the basic stuff you already proposed - multiple tests across a wide-enough but not-too-significant timeframe. I guess you would have to consider the possibility that people will get better at taking IQ tests, but they will almost certainly plateau at some point. You would definitely have to track the data across your entire study group to see how often people improve their test scores simply by taking multiple tests. Find the average rate of increase, and just consider that to be just another variable that you are aware of. If you've read this entire thing, which I feel is unlikely, thank you for your time. I'm also looking forward to reading your thesis on this subject because I sure as hell will not be writing it lmao.

Most clinicians will spend some time talking and building rapport before starting. If you tell them anything that suggests you’re not at your best or if they sense it based on their observation (e.g. you look sick or overly nervous), they’ll simply reschedule. If that’s not an option for whatever reason, they’ll note their observations in the report and discuss factors that have negatively impacted performance. Then they’re say something like: “based on these factors, this measure may not reflect the individual’s optional potential or best estimate of cognitive ability.”

While certainly true that you won't always perform your best on a test like this, one interesting thing about IQ is that it generally is rather hard to actually improve upon in a practical sense. So while an individual score might be higher or lower than a "true" metric of your IQ (it is certainly possible to score above reality, you might just get lucky with some of the questions), those scores will be distributed around your actual number, and variance is limited. That is to say a person with an IQ of 150 even in a terrible state will not perform worse than maybe 130 or so, and even the luckiest person of IQ 130 is vanishingly unlikely to score 150. It may be a good idea to frame an IQ score as just one data point instead of YOUR data point. it's related to you but is not a perfectly precise measure.

Nono, they are different things. Intelligence is basically the ability to solve complex problems while intellect is basically the interest you have on ideas, or the proclivity you have to engage towards them. For example you can be keen on economics and love to go deep on Hayek, Mises, Keynes, but at the same time, you can be not so bright. My opinion is that most times they are correlated but there are times which no. I had 75th in openness. 69 in openness to experience and 72 intellect. I'm glad I'm not more open than that haha. If it was the case I would have even more complications to know my self and support an idea.

So intellect is the same as talent? Or is there a difference?

@@esaugamez8101 Intellect is your interest in abstract ideas and proclivity towards them, whereas talent I a natural skill in something. Hope this helps.

@@hotshots149 thank you! It did

I believe they use multiple metrics to determine long-term life success. Income, career success, academic achievement, and even health outcomes/longevity are all correlated with IQ.

@@rogueheart2343 I don't think so, IQ does not measure those aspects. It would be impossible to standardize based on those. The Genetics of your health have no or little relation to IQ. Success is a concept that varies with countries and societal backgrounds that you can't control. Success is an aspect that can't be judged correctly. Is money success? Are academic degrees success? Is inspiring people success? longevity has nothing to do with IQ... Steve Jobs died young , likely because of the crazy diets he inflicted his body over the years, died at 56. Einstein was a patent clerk struggled academically, died at 76 after living through Spanish flu and two world wars... IQ is not measuring your future quality of life.

@@PierreH1968 wow

@@PierreH1968 The real purpose of social science is to take things that vary and to abstract what in common with them. If you rank people by IQ and then rank their income over the years. You'll find the two rankings match up. And if you take that same IQ ranking and set it next to another ranking of academic discipline, you'll find the same thing. No not every genius is in peak health, but generally speaking your can break health into smaller subsets of health and rank people by that subset and find a surprisingly high correlation. As it turns out IQ is the biggest psychometric indicator of anything you might consider success.

@@jeremiahnoar7504 I agree with the importance of the IQ indicator and definitely someone with an IQ below 80 will have a lot more challenges than someone with an IQ of 120+. But success and health are more of a personal and societal concept that sometimes have little to do with IQ.

If it wasn't for your statement I would have suggested that you may of just had a higher than average IQ..

Haha well i think IQ is overrated. Our whole class passed the 11 plus, but only about 7 or 8 went to the grammar school. Are you English?

@@harveysaunders2479 honestly 120 ?🤨🤨🤨don’t think u should brag about that bud

@@harveysaunders2479 i have an even dumber quote, when we did iq tests in school one of my friend stood up and shouted "I got 100%"

So you took an IQ test to get into grammar school. Which one? And “even to this day I can nail an IQ test and get high 120s.” Really? Which tests did you take? Who and where was it administered?

“In summary, if you want to get IQ scores for children, then your aim is to estimate the distribution of raw test scores in the general population for each age group of interest. There are various ways of doing this. The simplest approach is to get large samples of children at each year age of interest, and get means and standard deviations, and use them as above as appropriate. A more sophisticated approach involves smoothing the data to get an estimate of the systematic changes in both the mean and the standard deviation with age. Such a smoothed model can also be applied to get more fine grained estimates of a child who is say not exactly 10 years old, but rather 10 years and 5 months. There are many variations on this approach, and there are many issues to consider regarding the applicability of the same intelligence test to adults and children, especially as you get towards early childhood.” Angoff (1984) wrote a paper on this I think

Certain topics are age weighted-- math and language concepts for one. Its possible to score "higher" as an 8 year old than as a 28 year old (Read about William Stern's contribution to IQ). However, theory (borne by statistical evidence) is that one's relative ranking (percentile) remains consistent.

Essentially, you divide the overall score by age. There’s your adjustment.

its not recommended because kids are growing and their brains too so its much better to scale them as same to monitor the progress without adjusting but yes iq tests shouldn't be given to kids below 12, below 12 comes the formula of mental age (monitor by Childs activities) divided by chronological age multiplied by hundred there you have it. its helpful in curating best management for early retardation etc children can be developed if diagnosed early

@@nitishbahalwala4697 well said, and yet American schools love to use these tests to determine if a child requires additional services.

That's so low IQ of you to say that..

I think I got a 60 if I remember

A 130 score isn't genius.

​@@martim5800Genius isn't a classification on an IQ test. No score is equivalent to a 'genius' moniker.

@@martim5800 A 130 IQ score just mean that you're smarter than 96% of the population... not Genius, but highly gifted (intellectuals)... Close enough.

IQ can fluctuate with your mood and how rested you are and if you're exercising your mind. I've had scores bounce between 120 and 138 because of that.

To your, “I have met people with a high IQ that aren’t very successful.“ Higher IQ merely means you have a better chance to be successful, although the chance to be completely unsuccessful is still existent.

There must be elements of personality at work as well. High conscientiousness is important. What if you are smart and lazy? But we if we compare 2 people with same intelligence but one of them works harder it is probably the hard worker will tend to succeed. Additionally you have some external factor such as luck and opportunities and situations you find yourself in. So it is a big “stew” and unfortunately studies usually use simple models.

@@vobisw High IQ means you did well on a test that takes on average about 30 minutes. That's all it means.

@@bobbuilder5823 The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (the most common and well-regarded/venerated IQ test out there) lasts a total of almost 14 hours and is administered over the course of several weeks in a series of 60 to 90 minute sessions to make sure there's a sufficient sample size of information and that they don't just happen to catch you on an especially good or bad day that might misrepresent your average level of ability. All of those potential shortcomings you claim the test has are things they've thought of ahead of time and done their best to counter or at least adjust for.

The fourth paragraph is completely disconnected from the other 3. Like, you were making ur point n stuff and all of a sudden "i have these degrees btw". Just that have a nice day.

I completely agree. Being the smartest person in the room can be really hard. I've worked with people who couldn't finish school, and I've worked with people with multiple PhDs, and I have found that the majority of geniuses look at me like a student with potential, where as people with lower IQs are far more likely to argue with me about things

Here's a little secret. You don't have to take the test. You don't have to take any test.

I'm also interested in reading this

It’s dozens and dozens of studies

@@armoda1057 which ones? A book at least?

lo lo here’s a link to a tweet with a table from a book. It has a bunch of correlations with IQ. It’s missing some, such as lifespan, correlations with certain standardized tests, likelihood of getting a PhD, likelihood of having a patent for an invention. mobile.twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/1009655229128863745 Here’s an article on the topic (it’s great, very practical, deals with real-life relevance): analyseeconomique.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/the-general-intelligence-factor.pdf For books, Stewart Ritchie’s 2015 book is good - it’s very short, succinct. A much longer and more technical and intricate book is Arthur Jensen’s 1998 book, titled The g Factor.

@@armoda1057 thanks for your time men, it was all really useful. I'm an 18 year old from Argentina who don't takes the test because is scared of the result hahaha. But well i think that I will end up taking it because of curiosity. I can really understand why people hate iq tests, it is a number that shows how much they are worth. Ritchie in his book talks about the sociological impact of IQ tests?

Yes it is! Crystallized IQ.

How well you remember things is related to IQ, and well, if you can't remember the capital of Georgia, you might not be as smart as you think you are.

1. Memory is almost equal to intelligence (because human brains have no different memory and processing devices as computer doeas, it's the same neurons) idiot savants w good memory but lack of intelligence is rare. 2. Same for such thing as curiocity. To be smart you should train you neural network in head and train a lot, constantly, and you have to be motivated to do so, so you have to be curious.

@@Myronsjet IQ has genetic component. You cannot increase IQ by any training once it's settled. It decreases over time. Only exercise and healthy lifestyle can slow down IQ lowering but nothing can increase it.

@@nirajpathak99 It has genetic component but idea that intelligence is something unchangeable is just ridiculous. Are you same smart as you 5y old? And what do you mean under the therm "settled". In scientific concepts of development human organs and neural network training, not in magic pls.

See this is the problem, Peterson is talking statistics here but every case I've seen made against this has been anecdotal. Correlation doesn't guarantee anyone's outcome especially considering personal circumstances, it's like how not everyone who smokes gets lung cancer but we still acknowledge that smoking is dangerous

@@radiantcat540 but smoking is really dangerous, about 80-90% lung cancer cases were attributable to smoking..u only say that coz the disease is diagnosed very late average at 65 yr old

@@redking283 ok dude you can nitpick a specific example all you want but my point is the same, correlation doesn't need to be sky high to be significant

100 is average. 100 in the US is above average. 100 in Germany would be below average. 100 in a collage would be below average. You're the below average classmate your average classmates would talk about then, I assume?

A determined, disciplined, and resourceful person, with an IQ of 90 will be far more successful than someone with an IQ of 120 who thinks life is meaningless and only finds satisfaction within video games and taco bell.

That is very humble of you to share that on the internet where almost everyone in the world can see it, I just can't fathom how difficult that was for you to share with the world!

Interaction doesn’t predict iq💀

@@pomm1802 neither do 20 questions that exclusively test your ability to recognise patterns. Which was exactly my point. Pattern recognition is part of it, but so is the ability to wrap your head around new concepts quickly, or apply old information you already had to new situations. Those sorts of things have not been tested in the IQ tests I have done. My point was that test results are not necessarily reliable indicators. The last test I did, I did at midnight after working all day, and was half asleep. If I had done the test while fresh and rested, I definitely would have gotten different results. I also might have gotten different results if I did it with paper at a desk, rather than on my phone while in bed. Since IQ tests rank you compared with other people who did the same test, you could also get different results based on who else took the test. If you are being ranked against Harvard PhD graduates, you will get different results to if you are ranked against 12 year olds. You don't necessarily know if you're smarter than others unless you meet other people.

There are many batteries of tests, all under the same official rules. They are run and adjusted over millions of people every year. The tests you see on the internet are mostly clickbait and will give you results over 120 regardless of if 120 and over represent just the top 10% of the population

The debate only has merit if you have quality participants in that debate. I've found that most people, even the "race realists," do not know nearly as much as they pretend.

@@einarwilliamfreberg8220 huh?

@@cheese7781 Yikes. I didn’t write that. Thanks for the head’s up!!

Ah vintage Peterson. I hope to God I have a glow up like that in my 50s too

Maybe your brain is still growing.

@@andrewtol8756 Or since more ppl have been born since then my iq has been shifted above the mean

That's why he said you have to adjust it for age.

IQ Changes with age, some people mature later in age... especially if you're curious and scoreed over 115, as sa younger person.

u defiantly below average

@@Anonymous-gi6hw Stop talking like my ex

At the beginning of the video is says they are the best measure for long term success in life.

Most smart people are morally bankrupt and ran by ego which inside theyll never have happiness.

exactly- what is success... which field..lawyer, doctor, plumbing,rapper..from what i know, tekashi69 iq is like 10.. or is it happiness that equall success. cause it hear studys saying people with high iq suffer more

Yeah I'm thinking this as well, in that case the test would give an inaccurate result? E.g. people with adhd can have great iq but also have it hard with focus?

I think normal people also can be not focussed on the test.Focus is i think what iq tests measure.

I read a very interesting study once. IQ tests were administered to teenagers and after receiving one specific point they were tested once more. But here's the difference, they were offered money for achieving higher than a specific point. They on average scored 10 points higher than on the baseline IQ assessment. Interesting don't you agree?

I feel the same, our school did an aptitude test so we can choose our streams and I was helping the teacher while doing that thing and I had no Idea what that was and I didn't know that it was an IQ test... now thinking of it I feel annoyed about it because I couldn't do it properly

@@OhNooJosephJoestar can you use purple hermit?

Apparently nonexistent ones.

statistics says: NO

Yeah.....th people that can think for themselves

lol. Actually you do exaggerate a tad, but I get your drift. I daresay in terms of the population as a whole it would be statistically impossible. However, you have to factor in that the people interested in the subject are interested BECAUSE they have (or think they have) a High IQ. They are not going to find IQ information all that appealing if they think they are average Joe. It is kind of like being more keen on looking at a league table when your team is going well, and being disinterested when they are just chugging along.

@@lechatel Then again, who really believes himself to be average? I think most of the comment section got their iQs tested on an internet website. Further more, I’ve noticed that the gifted community rarely talks about their iQ and the advantages of having an iQ of 130 or above. It’s just more difficult to be gifted since gifted people aren’t simply faster, but they think completely different. However those are German findings, I heard it’s a little different in the USA.

@@lensenstark9819 I have no idea what the 'gifted community' is, or where it is. (Perhaps I was never gifted enough to be asked to join?) However, I have the privilege of knowing several very gifted people in different spheres. The one thing they have in common is a sense of their own individual worth without need to be part of a group. They would absolutely loathe and detest the idea of a 'gifted community' and would frankly all rather chew their own toes off than identify as part of one.

@@lechatel You do realise that gifted community just referred to this specific fringe group, right? Beyond that, there are multiple gifted „communities“ such as Mensa (which I never really liked, but perhaps that’s just my personal opinion). Of course there is no gifted group, where all gifted people attend a meeting from time to time. You should work on your vocabulary, cause community has multiple meanings and is not equivalent to the word „group“.

…I concur.

Best way: Take over 10 tests and calculate the average result

Anxiety and depression generally negative impact things like memory and concentration. In this way, it may artificially lower your IQ. However, this is not permanent. People of all IQ's get depression, having depression does not mean that you are stupid

@Sudo I believe depression etc is more due to the person state of mind.

@@yulonglian2137 A high iq does raise the risk of schizophrenia, just as a "fun fact"

Bravo! Your well-stated insight made my perusal here worthwhile.

no, if I remember correctly he started taking benzodiazepine anti-anxiety meds in 2016. this video is pulled from a 2015 lecture.

I have two different friends who don't know each other but both have high IQ's and every time I hang out with them I forget how lazy they are and if they don't get something on the first try they give up instantly. They never learned to put any effort into anything

@@itsmidtrib1569 IQ is really about how fast you can learn/solve problems. If you do nothing even 200 IQ wont help. Google the smartest man in the world. Guy has IQ around 220 and achieved shit it life. Very common phrase "smart, but lazy".

225? Huh?

That’s bullshit, less than 1 in a billion have an IQ above 200

Plus there’s no way on gods green earth that you went from 115IQ to 225. Face it, your IQ is obviously 115 which isn’t even low so idk why you have to try come up with some bullshit number. If a test gave you that number you can be sure it wasn’t a real one

​@@dannelissped I'm thinking it's a typo, and they mean 125. 😂 (Has to be.)

​@@dannelissped Your comment is hilarious.

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I never played chess

Chess is only good for IQ for the first few games when you are inexperienced. Once you start to memorize and recognize the various patterns and win strategies, its stops being about intelligence and more about memorization and experience.

It’s more complicated than race, race is not the only factor. and anybody who boils it down to that one factor would be a fool. What about the state of schools and quality of education? Stereotype threat? The situation at home, or the neighborhood? There’s also the fact that IQ differs more drastically between individuals than it does by race, so judging IQ off race is foolish.

@@CreativeUsernameEh Well...how do you think those neighbourhoods became like that in the first place? Who do you think are doing the teaching in those schools? It's the people who are directly responsible for ALL of the "other" factors you mentioned.

@@Ryan-nq3qp If banks have unilaterally decided that they're just not going to lend to people in certain neighborhoods (even to individuals who are as qualified as anyone else), and if deindustrialization occurs in those places at the exact same time that the service sector is expanding into other areas, then how does your model explain how "those neighbourhoods became like that in the first place"?

it does not measure education level at all

@@johny5400 Think about the subtests of Vocabulary and General Information. Get familiar with the tests

@@NaturalNeuron i am familiar, did it many times

@@johny5400 How do we acquire Vocabulary except through education?

@@NaturalNeuron Vocabulary does not come from education, by that time u go to school, you already have it. And vocabulary tests are not part of IQ test

iq is about seeing patterns and connections, not erudition or memory, it's the intuition and creativity in the first place.

No, you seem to be mistaken on what an IQ test is. An IQ test isn't the reiteration or the memorization of random facts, rather it is problem solving and the mental manipulation of objects. Clearly you didn't watch the video. Also, just because your friend doesn't have exceptional working memory doesn't mean that he wouldn't know the "capital of Georgie."

That type of question can actually be found in well-known intelligence tests like WAIS.

The ads aren't his fault.

Some old double digit IQ man who can’t type correctly says that the most famous psychologist in the world is full of BS. This... this is just too rich and good. Thank you for making my day, random idiot on the internet.

@@Josh-tf9cr 😜

@@Josh-tf9cr Watch him be a genius with an iq of 160(+), and now you just made yourself look like a primitive hubristic imbecile. Oh boy! that'd be funny!

Think you missed the point. It's an indicator, not a given

Statistical or aggregate connection and correlation.

Your right: nothing is ever proven. However, having a high IQ gives you some of the prerequisites that are crucial for excellence. If you have an IQ that puts you in the top one percent of the world, parents who are academically driven, live in a first-world country, and belong to at least the lower-middle class, your chances of success compound dramatically. On the other hand, If you have a high IQ but live with a family that neglects education, your probability of success is reduced greatly. Even so, statistically, the fact that you are alive puts you on the .0001 percent of all of the creatures that could have existed in your place. Statistically, everything that exists is nearly impossible, and yet it exists, so no matter what, you have the ability to break the statistics and surpass everything that was thought possible. In my time researching about this, I have come to realize two things that allow me to accept the fact that it is ok to have lower cognitive abilities than the top 1 percent. (1) Don't lose hope in your capacity to achieve something because of a statistic. (2) Even if you have lower cognitive abilities that reduce the spectrum of fields in which you can become great, you should still strive to become the best version of yourself--most people, I believe, can understand how that is virtuous.

He didn't say you can't criticize science, he said you can't criticize IQ without criticizing other psychology studies that derive from the same statistical ground, meaning that if you give any value to those other findings (and most psychologist do) you should also consider IQ a valuable parameter even if that hurts your self esteem.

@championchap no it isn’t. Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy .

If "stupid" means "disagrees with me" then . . . food for thought?

He sleeps on a mattress made of $. Writing a best seller and touring the world promoting it isn't anything to balk at. Have you given advise on Dr. Oz before?!

Depends how you define achievement I think - if you consider chopping wood as an achievement I'd guess hed be an under achiever. But if you think writing and publishing numerous books and scientific papers teaching hundreds of university students as your day job and ad in all his TV work - I'd say hes already achieved more in some years than I could in a life time. achievement means different things to different people I guess. And that's probably a good thing.

He has literally saved hundreds of thousands of people from committing suicide with his words, he's also helped young people find a vision for themselves so there're not wasting life away by drinking and laying in bed helplessly. That right there is an achievement.

You’ve done a lot of complaining about JP, looking over your comments that’s pretty clear. If you don’t like what he talks about or if it makes you feel insecure, don’t listen. However, your version of success whether it be philosophical, societal, or even just personal doesn’t have to line up with what he believes. Try not to be too critical of someone you’ve taken little liberty to understand.

IQ is the measure of someone’s mental adaptability and problem solving. So yes it is a measure of human intelligence. But what we forget is that there are many forms of IQ and an IQ test won’t cover all of those.

@@joeseibert1425 - as you said "IQ is the measure of someone’s mental adaptability and problem solving. " but only as far what as the standardized test can measure and it is not an over all measure of human intelligence because the score does not provide the complete picture, for instance many famous physicists did not score well in their tests - the mere fact IQ tests is a quotient of the median raw score of the norm sample and taken as IQ 100 and scores each individual are based on standard deviation up or down can vary from group to group - ie you can score different IQ values depending where and how the test was run and what kind of standardized test is used - so that presents as an experimental error and in itself is unreliable within tolerances

@@joeseibert1425 It is not a measure oh human intelligence. It's a very short test, that only includes the very basics.

majorgeeek and Joe, thanks your comments are more useful than the whole comment section or the video for that matter.

​@@bobbuilder5823 But the thing is, it DOES measure cognitive ability. That is why, when you make all founders of successful companies take an IQ test, you'll get a very high average. Probably 130+. The same way you'd get probably an average of ~90 if you were to have each person on welfare take a test. It does not mean just because you take welfare you have an IQ of 90, but there would be MORE people with an IQ of 90 amongst welfare recipients than another comparative group.

I find that hard to believe that IQ score is incredibly rare!

you forgot to remove the ones bro.

It depends, if it was taken online, the result is meaningless, if it was administered by Mensa, thats impressive

Lol not at all. Wtf is wrong with you? Have you truly listened to what Shapiro says? xD

@@ramoncontreras1726 relax bro I wasn’t tryna trigger you

That isn't true. Yes, many people have talents. There is always something you can learn from someone else. (Today I learned how to better set my mole traps from a guy who is not a particularly bright bulb in other ways.) Leaving the God thing aside, not all humans are 'smart' in some way. I know that kind of thought is comforting, but I have dealt with people of low average to low IQ in a professional capacity and it just isn't so. Once you get below a certain level they are simply profoundly 'deaf' in an IQ sense and no amount of volume tune will make any difference at all. They are dull right through. Doesn't mean they are not sweet, loving and lovable people (some are and some are not), but that is a whole other thing.

@@lechatel welp I guess I'm average then 🤷‍♂️. I couldn't do my university studies cause I hate studying. I still speak German as good as any professor and probably english too. I know I'm not stupid :). I'm not necesary talented. Just lived both in Germany and Bosnia/Croatia. So it came natural. Now english is a result of my hobbys like Music, American sports / Culture, youtube amd social media. Is what it is. Let the mans be smarter then me. I know mans isn't grammatically correct, it's just some ebonics I like to throw in.

@@lechatel West European success is also a product of imperialism, colonialism and violence. They conquered and reap the rewards of their ancestors. What they do is considered right and smart. There is career bias. I'm from the balkans which is still Europe so I can't complain. America, Australia and Canada and Europe are all dominated by West European ancestry. Inherited wealth and chances. Racial bias. But hey, racially those are my first degree cousins or even half brothers I still love 'em. And I might just be less smart by nature who can decide. Maybe my brain is wired that way .

Interesting observation. Highly verbal people in general do you think ?

Math isn't necessarily correlated to iq at all

what? what isn't true? this?

Alright. Then have fun with a doctor with an IQ of 78 trying to take out a tumor out of your brain or trying to fix your heart after a heart attack...

You can't just say that because you don't have to prove yourself sitting behind an anonymous account. It's lazy.