Comments by "Mark Zuckergecko" (@markzuckergecko621) on "How Reliable Is IQ?" video.

@Stevie-J most of the smartest breeds are herding, most of the dumbest breeds are hounds. There's obviously a lot of variation, but it makes sense if you think about the jobs they were bred for. A border collie is supposed to control, herd, and protect a group of dozens of animals that could each individually knock the shit out of them, and coordinate with a human handler in how to do that. That's a freaking smart animal. A beagle is supposed to watch their person shoot a bird, sniff around until the find the bird, and then scream bloody murder until the person catches up. Not particularly smart. Very useful, but not smart.
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I work at a kennel, and one of the owners' dogs had a litter about 4 years ago. 3 of the pups ended up with employees or regular customers, so they were all raised in different homes, but are all regular at the kennel and we've gotten to know them individually. And they're all very different. Similar in intelligence, but not the same. Meadow is definitely the smartest, but she's also a pampered mamas girl that will pretty quickly cry and expect a person to do something for her, when she could do it herself. Penny is the most independent, you would think she's the smartest on the surface just because she's not a needy little asswipe like Meadow, but after enough time around both, you realize Meadow is actually smarter. Hazel is...... Special. I dunno what happened to that one.
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True, I think everyone has met a handful of "smart idiots" in their life, regardless of what you choose to call them.
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Houston all my life, which I've heard is the most ethnically diverse city in the world, I'm not quite sure what that means, maybe it's the most different ethnicities represented in one city, maybe it's something to do with the overall representation of ethnic groups, maybe it's just complete nonsense that I misheard, but either way, it's an extremely ethnically diverse city. And there's a huge, huge difference between people of any particular ethnic group, and ghetto culture. There are certainly strong correlations between certain ethnic groups and ghetto culture, but it knows no bounds, anyone of any ethnicity can become one of them, and anyone can also refuse that life and do better.
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I've never put much faith in IQ testing, if for no other reason than just the pure fact that it's a test. Test taking skills and intelligence are not the same thing, even if there is a correlation, and you can never fully eliminate the element of the test itself. Doesn't mean trying to quantify IQ is completely meaningless, but it shouldn't be viewed as absolutely quantifiable.
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You also should keep in mind that academic types can often by intentionally ignorant to serve a political agenda.
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@CantoniaCustoms Ok wow, yea, I was way wrong. Pakistan is 96% Muslim.
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@scottcantdance804 they play a mean didgeridoo though. I think. I really don't know how you're supposed to play it, but it all the movies it seems like they're good at it.
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Wicker 2 but test taking skills and external factors are always going to have an impact, you cannot reduce that to zero, it is literally impossible. You can reduce it a great deal, you can make fairly accurate IQ tests, but you can never reduce the external factors to zero. That's why the same person can take the same IQ test and get different scores.
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Wicker 2 your problem is that you want to view the world through absolutes, because it's easier for you to digest that way, and you get to pretend like you're always right. Sometimes people are wrong. It's ok, you'll survive. You'll be right a lot more often once you realize you're not always right, and nothing bad happens when you admit you're wrong.
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@eitantal726 eh, kinda. When I think midwit, I think of a person that's smart enough to feel superior to stupid people, but not smart enough to realize they're really not that smart. A smart idiot to me is a little different, it's someone that's intelligent but just can't really apply it to common real life situations. But they're both kinda junk terms anyway, so I don't think either has a hard definition.
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@Stevie-J well there's a lot of overlap, and Golden Retrievers are very smart, #4 to be exact. And I take those lists with a grain of salt, it depends on where you look, but the top 4 are consistent, 1 - border collie, 2 - standard poodle, 3 - German Shepard, and 4 - golden retriever. So you were mostly right, it is mostly herding and working dogs, but there's also a lot of overlap there, "working" is pretty nebulous bc herding dogs are essentially working dogs too, it's just a more specific type of working. And there's mostly categorized that way based on their physique, herding dogs typically have a longer, slender frame, as opposed to working dogs being more stout. You can actually make a strong argument that German shepards should be in the working group instead of herding, because they're really not used for herding very often, they're typically used for protection or police work. Retrievers are considering sporting, which again could loosely fit in the more broad category of working. "Working" for the intents of classification usually means guard breeds, like great Danes and mastiffs. Labrador retrievers are very intelligent too, but not as much as Goldens.
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@CantoniaCustoms Lmao, I think Pakistan is actually fairly split between Muslim and Hindu. But now I'm curious so I'm gonna use the Google machine to see how smart I am.
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Wicker 2 so what's your point then? What are you suggesting is the action that should be taken when looking at the average IQ of demographics?
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Wicker 2 I'm just gonna firmly disagree on homogeneous nations, I think it's fine if nations want to do that, but I also think there's value in having a society that puts merit above ethnicity, like the US is supposed to be. We're obviously not that anymore, we've been subverted by communists, but I don't think multiculturalism is the cause, I think it's just a symptom that's being exploited. I think ethnostates have a right to exist, and people have a right to be only around their own people if they want to, but I don't think that should be enforced in any way on a global scale. As far as hiring I think it would be better to filter out bad candidates based on their candidacy, I don't really give a shit if they're African, or European, or Asian, I care that they can do the job.
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@iamthelaw82 you might be confusing Pakis for Indians, Paki immigrants tend to have more blue collar type jobs, like the Quickee Mart or driving an Uber. Indian immigrants tend more towards professional career. A freaking absurd amount of doctors in Houston are Indian. Pakis and Indians are very ethnically similar, they look about the same and their names and accents are pretty much the same. At least as far as I can tell, if I was from that region I might notice the subtle differences more.
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@0xdeadbeef131 are you ethnically Japanese? And if not, do you inherently know karate? I've always wondered if that's more of a nature or nurture thing, like is it in the Japanese genes, or the Japanese culture?
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@0xdeadbeef131 damnit. I need to talk to a non Japanese person who was raised in Japan, I have questions that need answers.
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@Stevie-J also worth noting a lot of the dumbest breeds are breeds that don't really have a job at all other than to be cute.
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You must have been in pretty stupid rooms most of your life, because it's not that uncommon for people to have a higher IQ than 128.
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@Woo_Woo_Woman I think the collective farts in big cities make them dumber. If you live in NYC, the "oxygen" you breathe is approximately 30% farts.
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I don't even trust that China is a real place. Unless China says China isn't a real place, in which case, China is definitely a real place.
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