A study conducted in Germany found that men with higher IQs are less inclined to traditional values, but the lead author, psychologist and intelligence researcher Maximilian Krolo of Saarland University, said the researchers did not find these differences among women.

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    Veritasium made a video talking about IQ tests, their validity and so on. https://youtu.be/FkKPsLxgpuY

    One of my key takeaways: IQ tests have some validity as a diagnostic tool for asessing cognitive disabilities or illnesses, but they should not be taken as serious and significant as many less informed people seem to do.

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      For your own privacy, and the privacy of everybody else interacting with you.

      When you share a YouTube link, if you don’t remove the si=ID, anybody that clicks on that link will then be associated with you. It’s one of the tools Google uses to track your internet usage.

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      Veritasium is the puppet of an investment firm.

      Your takeaway on IQ is accurate.

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      One of my key takeaways is that it may have some value in aggregate, like this study, but does not tell an individual how smart they are

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      Also see it as a tool, I do think that tool has to be adapted to the region to be usefull. A Dutch or French IQ test (not even language related) would not be usefull in Brazil or Namibia. As far as I know to be usefull it needs to be based on local education and living situations.