honestly, i don’t really do hate, it’s not an emotion that gets invoked in me easily, nor does it last long. instead of hate i feel a mixture of pity, sadness, fear, and hope for a better tomorrow, and sometimes i run dangerously low on hope

don’t get me wrong, i don’t want the status quo back, i just want to feel hopeful for the future again :(

don’t mind me either way tbf, i’m romanticising the past when the world was barely any better than now, i was simply more ignorant of what was going on around me. i’m aware of this, i don’t indulge in that feeing too often, but sometimes i do

i just want to have hope again :(

i thought that once trump eventually gets exposed as a vile monster, people would turn away from him… and though some have, it’s nowhere near as big of paradigm shift as i imagined would happen :(

can we like… go back to subtle fascism please?

it obliterates my faith in humanity that if this was a fictional story it’d be described as “worldbuidling but the only tool you have is a sledgehammer” and yet that guy still has people that support him???

looks to me like someone just kept their phone’s camera on whatever default settings it came with and one of those settings happened to be an “enhancing” algorithm that makes a generic image “better” but give it two overlapping patterns and it gets a stroke

edit: upon further examination, there’s a keyhole at the bottom of the door, it’s just AI, ugh

this is the “relatable and funny online lingo”, nobody actually talks like that

that looks like we’re running out of gold

eh, not everyone will get the meaning the first time they encounter a new usage, but if it makes sense to most people it’ll be used more

survivorship bias - those who have uninstalled, are not bitching about windows anymore

the test wasn’t personalised for me, IQ tests can’t be personalised as the IQ result is derived from how far you deviate from the base 100. you can’t reliably figure out the standard or compare people to it if you give every other guy a different test

the only personalisation you get is tests that cover lower or higher results. the most generic ones focus mostly on +/-2/3 standard deviations and become inaccurate at the borders. if you’re a genius, or mentally disabled then you need a different test if you want to figure out how big of a genius/disability you got

but yeah good idea to ask an actual professional, hope you find the answers you seek

to fight an anecdote with an anecdote - when i play games sure i don’t experience the fear of death, but i do experience compassion towards what i’m fully aware is a bunch of pixels & lines of code presented to me as a character in a video game. and i experience the thrill of discovery or a tough fight with a boss. the more i’m immersed in a game the deeper emotions i feel.

and VR in particular is much more immersive. even in a game like Beatsaber, which doesn’t aim at realism, your brain interprets the boxes coming at you as actual objects about to slam into your face. you intuitively attempt to dodge them, especially when you’re in the flow state of playing.

games can elicit emotions, and VR games can do it in an even stronger way. from my perspective, there is no reason to doubt the results of this study, especially if the fear response wasn’t measured through a subjective report of emotions, but through observing the physiological effects fear has on the body.

the research is supposed to highlight - not prove, there is nothing to prove, it’s a fact - how much fear women and girls go through in their daily lives, that men or boys don’t have to worry about

fair points Mr AssTits, but there’s one thing i’ll nitpick - if you are always given a culturally neutral test - how are you supposed to check the various types of intelligence, when the culturally neutral test is just a bunch of logic puzzles, it only tests for logic. it’s impossible to test for debate ability, or musical abilities, or any other abilities with culturally neutral methods. even for a debate skill you need linguistic skills and langauges are heavily influenced by cultures they function in.

i took an IQ test with a licensed psychologist, WAIS for adults to be specific, and it was indeed based on the polish school curriculum. it supposedly measured 3 metrics: logic, language, emotion (not exact names of those metrics, forgot those). logic was just logic puzzles & memorising stuff, langauge was word definitions, and i assume an analysis of how i expressed myself, and emotion was honestly dumb and included sayings and idioms which??? i’m neurodivergent i get these wrong all the time, but i can read emotions and behave maturely quite well. then an average of these was taken and presented as my general IQ

i came out of there thinking how it’d be impossible for me to score well if i didn’t have the privilege of attending good schools, or just being lucky (there was a section of culturally important figures, one of whom was Maria Skłodowka-Curie who also happened to be a patron of my primary school so, yeah i kinda knew a lot about her)

T–T

if even one person learnt something new today i’ll consider that a win

it was at -1 when i saw it, which is what prompted me to attempt to give a step by step process leading to the conclusion you gave as it seemed to me folks just lacked context

monkey’s paw curls…

IQ testes only test logic puzzle solving skills (& memory sometimes), so there is no way for you to measure your own actual intelligence, let alone your autistic kid’s

to those downvoting this comment -

your IQ test results might as well be your zip code

for a proper explanation, check out Bell Curve by Shaun

for a personal interpretation & in large part summary of the above material:

IQ tests are not a general smartness tests, that is impossible to measure. IQ testes measure your ability to solve logic puzzles, and that supposedly measures your logic itself (at least the tests that have no cultural bits, the ones that include cultures also have some testing of your memory based largely on your country’s school curriculum. more on why that’s a problem later)

can someone be naturally amazing at logic? of course, they can, but that skill needs to be nurtured, or at least allowed to flurish. and this is supposed to happen in schools.

now what happens when a person with the potential to score high in an IQ test doesn’t enjoy the privilege of peaceful learning? what happens when their family life is difficult? what happens when during their schooling years they have to focus on surviving, instead of learning and nurturing their skills? well, they score lower, of course. their potential doesn’t disappear, but it gets used in a different direction, to help them survive in life. and logic puzzles don’t play a big role in survival so that particular skill is not tended to and therefore doesn’t develop as well as it could in ideal circumstances.

now let’s look at racism. we’re not talking about day to day racism, though that also plays a part, but institutionalised racism - the one that keeps pushing minorities into poverty, and keeps them there harder than white people, because as we know, poverty is a trap that’s difficult to get out of even for those not pushed into it with institutional racism.

add the two together - IQ tests measure your logic puzzle solving skills, which develop only if you have access to decent schools & you’re allowed to learn without interruptions, without having to worry for yourself or your family. institutionalised racism pushes minorities into poverty, which means they lose access to good schooling, and have to worry for themselves and their families from an early age.

this in turn results in minorities scoring lower on those tests, but not because they are stupid, but because their intelligence has to be used for surviving, and they are not allowed to comfortably indulge in solving logic puzzles to develop the skills that IQ tests look at to “measure intelligence”

i never joined mensa, though i had the option to. and yeah you just confirmed all the reasons why i hadn’t lol. entitled dudes who believe so hard that results of a test make them better than others that they are approaching actual delusions of superiority, having to sit among people like that would make my blood boil

well, i suppose it’s a logic puzzle skills test, not an emotional intelligence test.

i despise how IQ is almost revered by the overall society, and i hate how, despite everything, that stupid result does make me feel good about myself, tempting me to feel better than others

experienced kinksters in the process of being seduced would be on high alert looking for any and all red flags or attempts to push their boundaries. because though seduction is hot - if a stranger does it to impress you, you should be paying close attention to what they do next