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6 days agoI recently told my mother that I’m probably the most intelligent person she will ever meet while explaining why her conservative beliefs are dumb as shit and she defensively asked what my IQ is…
I was no contact for the past eight years or so and it was at a family reunion that we saw one another.
I don’t know my IQ, I’m actually a pretty slow learner, and I have horrible test anxiety. But as a polyglot physicist with a dash of perpetual autodidactic inclinations, I’m pretty well informed and I don’t know if intelligence can be measured, but I know it when I see it.
It’s funny that conservatives think quick wit and fast words equate to intelligence without ever stopping to think about the substance.
I don’t go around saying this to random people and I wouldn’t have to in polite society. It was with respect to her belief that hospitals were paid extra for people who died from COVID.
You have to understand, my entire family, siblings, parents, nephews, cousins, are all functionally illiterate. I’m literally the most intelligent person they know.
Place me in an APS conference and I’m probably the dumbest person in the room.