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MBTI has been proven completely ineffective at predicting anyone’s success at a particular job, and half the people who take it twice will get different results. Reputable psychologists do not recognize it, and the company that owns the rights to it uses it to scam people. People don’t adhere to strict binaries in basically anything. Very few people are going to be exclusively introverted or extroverted. It’s just astrology repackaged as pseudoscience. Shockingly enough, you can’t boil the complexity of the human experience down to a dozen Types of Guy.

The concept of IQ is flawed from the start— “intelligence” is an abstract concept that encompasses many different skills, from social intelligence to emotional intelligence to the very narrow kind of problem solving intelligence IQ tests generally measure for. It cannot predict how fast you learn, how much you know, or how logical and well read you are. It mostly measures how good you are at solving puzzles. Coincidentally, it’s also a pretty good predictor of income and education level, take a guess why. Most people’s IQ will change throughout their lives, because it’s inconsistent bullshit we’ve only held onto this long because we’re still kinda hoping we can breed the ubermensch. IQ tests and the way they attempt to categorize people are explicitly eugenicist and racist.

BMI was developed by a man known as the grandfather of eugenics, who first of all was a mathematician, not a doctor, and second never intended the formula to be used to categorize individuals. It’s intended to give a rough estimate of obesity in populations, and it’s not even good at that. It hangs around because of fatphobia and insurance companies who want it as an excuse to charge fat people more.

The study which determined people’s prefrontal cortex was still developing at 25… stopped measuring at 25. Evidence suggests your brain probably never stops developing. Stop infantilizing grown adults. This is a branch off from the larger mess of misinformation surrounding fMRIs.

I mean, empires are always multi-ethnic, because that’s what happens when you conquer other countries for fun and profit.

this prominently included the largely latin-speaking ‘socii,’ who were the same damn ethnicity as the romans by modern standards, but they weren’t roman. also other kinds of italians including traditional enemies now subjugated. whole-ass civil war about their being sub-citizen inhabitants of the republican empire.

they got citizenship and later (after more civil war) even the vote, but the republic never recovered from the destabilization and in a couple generations tipped over into a standing dictatorship, where the vote no longer counted for as much; eventually, for nothing at all.

but there was a path to citizenship for any free man, through the army.

septimius severus was however born a citizen, in an equestrian family. through his mother, he was descended from a respectable italian line who’d moved to the libyan colony and intermarried with locals, but his father was entirely provincial. his uncle got the emperor to promote him to senatorial rank to help him run for office.

(wikipedia says he probably started out getting elected to overseer of road crews, and that he was DA at one point. also it’s his wife that was syrian.)

he happened to be in command of an army nearby, having been elected to the tier of public service where they gave you armies because that was how it still worked at that point, when commodus was assassinated. (the historical event gestured toward by the movie gladiator.)

the replacement for commodus got assassinated even harder, and severus’ troops promoted him to the top spot, and the senate apparently liked him better than the guy who bought the job from the guys who’d assassinated the last guy because they sided with severus. presumably to avoid establishing the precedent that the people who murdered the emperor got to pick the next emperor lol.

and then rome had its first provincial emperor.

But we didn't know WHAT those specific genes in pea plants were exactly, we just knew how they were transmitted and expressed, we were the exact same as Mendel after all this time

...did that servant materialise out of thin air to bring him food in his room. The place not actually empty, just empty of people of his own class. he just left the servant and his monster with each other while he was out.

A quote from Mary Shelley's Mathilda: '[...] arrived and quite incapable of taking off my wet clothes that clung about me. In the morning, on her return, [highlighted] my servant [end highlight] found me almost lifeless, while possessed by a high fever I was lying on the floor of my room.

this is how 99% of TME people on this app (probably irl too) treat trans women & conversations around our infertility. but it’s actually worse because they fail to understand that infertility is the basis & justification for our oppression. i’ve talked about this more in depth on my page & wont stop because people are uniquely weird towards trans women & i’m tired of pretending they’re not.

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