Your browser does not support the video tag. I keep returning to this thought on IQ, so I have to write it down before it drives me insane. I've been in a lot of online spaces where people place so much stock in that number, like it determines one's life outcomes in a way that is precisely out of their control. It makes people feel hopeless for their own future, that they aren't good enough to live their own damn life. But IQ, while purported by figures like Jordan Peterson to be this quintessential indicator for societal performance, is perhaps the most unreliable indicator out there. Here's the metaphor I've been repeating to myself ad nauseam to describe IQ: imagine an IQ test, and the test is to climb a tree. Taking the test, we have a monkey, a bird, and a fish. The monkey does really well, of course. The fish? Not so well, of course. And the bird? He can get up the tree faster than the monkey, but fails at the test because he flies instead of climbs. IQ is exactly this; many of…
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