Attorney, journalist, and Elon Musk biographer Seth Abramson eviscerated both Elon Musk and his “fanboys” who have attempted to use the billionaire’s IQ as an indication of his intellectual prowess in a series of messages shared on X Thursday evening and into Friday.

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    16 months ago

    But surely you are aware that companies are trying to sell it off as objectively measurement of int, successfully so since most of the population regards them so? This lil part is my issue!

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        16 months ago

        Being interested in an objective measurement of your intellect? Silliest fucking thing I have ever heard!

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          16 months ago

          The belief that an commercial IQ test is an “objective measure of your intellect” is a pretty good subjective measure of your intellect.

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              16 months ago

              people fall for unvalidated tests, often even totally fake ones that offer “training” to increase your “IQ”. Generally IQ tests are a very good measure of how well people take standardized tests. The problem is, scoring high on those tests might correlate with one’s capabilities, but it doesn’t mean real-world competence. In medicine for example, it’s not the people with the highest scores tend to be the best doctors, but the ones who follow up on issues, and that habit compounds. etc.

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                16 months ago

                I don’t even know what you are talking about, I honestly don’t even know what you are talking about…