Don’t envy the green too much, chance of late onset mental illnesses seems to increase.
I realized during covid that most people are quite dumb and I didn’t realize that before. But what’s actually lacking in people is maturity and kindness.
Too much focus on iq, as if it makes you a better person. It may make you more productive for the corps. Good for them.
Yeah, “gifted”.
Especially since gifted, is based on biased metrics that personally feel like they ignore a lot of other factors.
There isn’t an unbiased metric in existance, not when intelligence is itself so ill-defined and nebulous.
You can’t reduce it down to a number or set of numbers without making judgements about what intelligence is and isn’t, or what the numbers represent specifically, or without making judgements about how to take the measurements. These judgements cannot be made but through the lens of the culture and individual life experience of judge(s). And when it comes to research on topics like this there is simply no way to truly isolate any measurable quantity out as being inherently caused by biology vs external factors. Humans are messy and hard to sort neatly.
If anything, the comic more-so reflects what happens to kids who grow up getting told they’re gifted and praised for being inherently smart rather than for working hard or other such things that they can actually exert any control over, thus producing kids who are terrified of not being as smart as they’re told they are or as “successful” as they’ve been expected to be, who grow up to fret about their failures or perceived failures. Or to kids who have or believe themselves a great deal of potential but cannot realize it for other reasons, be they economic, geopolitical, familial or whatever.
Also lifelong concern with things that the average group doesn’t notice, and inability to be entertained by the things that enthrall them.
