Mar 18, 2025
this is my experience studying to be a psychologist btw
my textbook: here is a psychologist that suggests that intelligence is diverse and he proposes different levels of intelligence that require different kinds of tests to measure
me: wow! i kind of like this idea of understanding that intelligence is diverse and different people are smart about different things and that we as a society shouldnt place value in one area! oh boy i want to look more into this!
me, googling the psychologist: ah. i have been forsaken. for this man is a eugenicist who is trying to sell this theory to rich people. alas.
i do this shit at least once a week.
#also i called the psychologist a he on people#all the female psychologists are measuring motor abilities in toddlers and calling that intelligence#which sure#im kind of underselling that but yknow i dont disagree in theory#execution is another thing#i have a lot of thoughts on iq at all times but its pretty much a miserable topic for me#i just wish the whole field would leave it behind but they refuse to#they want to find a real way to measure why some people are better at problem solving than others#look bro some kids just lived in areas with well funded libraries and thats just kinda it#thoughts of dante#i cant yap about this anymore or else im gonna start talking about kohlberg#if i had a nickle for every time there was a famous developmental psychologist who said something i almost agreed with but it turned out#that they were either a eugenicist or looking at their own theory from such a shallow perspective that the thoery itself kind of falls apart#i would have more than two nickels ill tell you that
