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squokko ◴[] No.35514266[source]
Fewer than half of the hypereducated peers I know have kids, while my gardener has 8 kids, so I expect that this trend will continue
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Havoc ◴[] No.35514401[source]
Education is not IQ
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squokko ◴[] No.35514851[source]
My gardener is not high IQ. Good guy and hard worker but there has got to be some correlation between IQ and education.
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sainez ◴[] No.35515336[source]
> My gardener is not high IQ.

Wow! You must have ran a battery of IQ tests to assert this with such absolute certainty.

My father used to be a gardener to make ends meet. Because of a lack of education and a language barrier, I'm sure he would appear low IQ as well. Now he works in electronics manufacturing and the efficiency by which he debugs production problems and reasons from first principles would put many of my educated peers to shame. What can be easily dismissed as a lack of ability can be more reasonably explained by a lack of opportunity and resources. But it is easier for privileged people to look down on others and believe that everyone is in a position they deserve.

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1. dqft ◴[] No.35515509[source]
The gardener is still not high IQ.