“I was very good at prestige-seeking, and prestige gave me a lot of pleasure. I scored well on tests and went to a nice school”
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Mainly there’s that one test you take when you’re 16. I also did well on that test.
I have a hypothesis that we may have made a huge mistake by essentially using that test to screen for our nati…
“I was very good at prestige-seeking, and prestige gave me a lot of pleasure. I scored well on tests and went to a nice school”
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Mainly there’s that one test you take when you’re 16. I also did well on that test.
I have a hypothesis that we may have made a huge mistake by essentially using that test to screen for our nations leadership class.
Doing well on that test really does not mean you are smart or competent at all. The math is incredibly basic and the language part requires you to have read for about an hour a day. If you’re fairly diligent you’ll ace the test.
I think there might be certain psychopathologies that are overrepresented in the individuals who score well on that test. Diligent kids? Maybe they have a greater store of resentment on average than the general population? NERDS!!
😂😂
Regardless, it seems these psychopathologies are now overrepresented within our ‘elite’ class. Many of them are not actually elite, which is what you’d expect when the screening mechanism is a relatively easy test that you take when you’re 16, and it seems clear that a substantial portion of them are still seeking that high they felt when, at 16 years old, a modest degree of aptitude finally put them ABOVE the popular kid whose dad was a real estate developer or business owner of some kind……WHO NEEDS TO PAY HIS FAIR SHARE!!!!
(As I said, I also did well on that test so if you’re a nerd do not take this as an attack. There are good people on both sides. On many sides.)
“I was very good at prestige-seeking, and prestige gave me a lot of pleasure. I scored well on tests and went to a nice school”
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Mainly there’s that one test you take when you’re 16. I also did well on that test.
I have a hypothesis that we may have made a huge mistake by essentially using that test to screen for our nations leadership class.
Doing well on that test really does not mean you are smart or competent at all. The math is incredibly basic and the language part requires you to have read for about an hour a day. If you’re fairly diligent you’ll ace the test.
I think there might be certain psychopathologies that are overrepresented in the individuals who score well on that test. Diligent kids? Maybe they have a greater store of resentment on average than the general population? NERDS!!
😂😂
Regardless, it seems these psychopathologies are now overrepresented within our ‘elite’ class. Many of them are not actually elite, which is what you’d expect when the screening mechanism is a relatively easy test that you take when you’re 16, and it seems clear that a substantial portion of them are still seeking that high they felt when, at 16 years old, a modest degree of aptitude finally put them ABOVE the popular kid whose dad was a real estate developer or business owner of some kind……WHO NEEDS TO PAY HIS FAIR SHARE!!!!
(As I said, I also did well on that test so if you’re a nerd do not take this as an attack. There are good people on both sides. On many sides.)