The place of IQ

[Identity]

I was just thinking about IQ, as I've found @Leo Gura talking about its unimportance and delutedness.

Than I had this idea that maybe it's not completely useless, but it is highly specific to the values and goals you have in mind.

So for example, for stage orange IQ tests might be very valuable. If you are to assume that in this reality you are very important, and it is very important for you to build mental models to manipulate the environment to your preference, IQ might be a pretty important measure of someone's ability to do that. It's one of multiple measures maybe, but quite useful. (Forgetting maybe the question of how one gets to an IQ level).

If you are an investment banking company, building software to exploit "inaccuracies" from the market according to some complex calculations, on some Suits type shit, would you rather have the guy who scored high or low on the IQ test? I know I am choosing the latter.

However, looking at it from a stage green perspective where you are trying to maximize love, acceptance, community, etc. It makes much less sense; Just open your heart and accept each other, we will figure it out together! No need to put people in categories guys, or girls, or whatever you want to be called! How unfear those poor low IQ scored people have grown up, let's give them a hug.

Stage yellow, I would think; how can we optimize this system we call society and bring it to a better performing level? IQ tests are a flimsy surface level tool which we will probably not use, or use as a very partial perspective, to make this shit happen.

Or, as I try to understand, from a turquoise perspective, as moving parts of consciousness. IQ test? What the hell are you talking about? Get on that meditation cushion real quick, and plan a 5-meo session whilst you are at it.

[Arnold666]

Haha, yes! 

Edited April 29, 2019 by Arnold666

[Angelo John Gage]

IQ can be useful in some cases, but there are also apparently 9 other forms of intelligence https://examinedexistence.com/the-nine-different-types-of-intelligence/ which of course isn't accepted by some to be true, but we can see this with our own experience. We have run into dumber people who have amazing talents which require some form of intelligence.