I hope by saying this I can achieve some empathy, which I believe I can def achieve.
For sure and of course but remember that you're too sensitive and work on it. For example it's not good because of some IQ test to feel bad for years. Who cares? Really. Everyone wants to see your real achievements (results) nobody gives a damn what's your score on this test or that test. They'll 'test' your status, property, bank account more than the scores in your diplomas or psycho tests.
Yeah but since everyone does not know about IQ and they are always 'gauging' your IQ by your grades, occupational success, political stances etc., which is very stupid by the professional psychometric knowledges, I don't care about my 'perceived' IQ. But indeed I should get rid of IQ tests and turn to work on really meaningful shits.
Btw, my political stance is between Liberalism and Conservatism, anti-C.C.P, and 'Rightist'. I can't describe myself with more exact political terms since I do not know much about it but for sure you can get a rough idea of my political stance, although I still don't know why we can gauge one's IQ by his/her political belief.
According to the political reality the present China is
neo-imperatorized, the full power is in the so-called president (like the ancient emperors), i. e. we're dealing with a
neo-feudal reality, thus the C.C.P. doesn't exist as such (except formally), so in fact you
can't be anti-C.C.P (nor pro-C.C.P.) because it's already
not a real political subject but
a tool of the
one full-empowered person. I was pro-C.C.P. when it was operating as such (Hu Jintao's period and before him). Now I just can't be because it's already not a real party but I keep my socialistic beliefs (to support the weak, the poor; to make things as cheap as possible, to give people more freedom and happiness, to give them more security, to give them the socialistic democracy, a real republic, to develop humanistic culture and so on.)
why we can gauge one's IQ by his/her political belief.
I mean those obviously primitive political ideas like the ultra-nationalism (Hitlerism (Nazism), for example or the present days' Rashism) where the followers think that after they kill somehow all the Jews, Ukrainians or Japanese, then they'll start to live in a paradise like society. Only low-IQed person (and/or crazy) can really accept these anti-human ideologies that state simply "We kill all of X people, then the happiness is coming."
So, I think that when you see some with these low ultra-radicalized ideas, you can know it's not a clever and/or normal person.
my 'perceived' IQ
In the societies this is what matters most. You can see that some politicians or businessmen aren't very well educated and don't say very wise things, but the mass of the people think that they're great. At the same time some really clever, knowledgeable people like some of the professors in the academies and universities do speak a lot of good stuff but the mass of the people even don't know who are they and what are they talking about.
Let's talk about the inceldoms for a while. Think about this analogy: - A Chad can't make more than 12 pull ups and lift more than 20 kg but the Stacies and Beckies perceive him as a strong, capable man.
- A gymcel can make 32 pull ups and lift 50 kg but the Stacies and Beckies perceive him as a weak, over-compensating man.
Who'll get more results? Of course the Chad.
Or, let's talk about the countries: think about
USA and
Switzerland. Almost everything in Switzerland is better: the GDP per capita, the incomes, the security, the average culture and the average IQ of the population, the social care and so on. But there are people who even don't know what is this and where it is, maybe they just heard that it's a country somewhere in Europe. At the same time, all of them know USA and many of them perceive the USA as the best. As a result -- the attractiveness of the USA is way better than that of the Switzerland and most of the people who want to live abroad are dreaming of the USA not about Switzerland. USA is the "winner" in this context.
So, you can develop your IQ (I even support people who want to be cleverer; I, myself, non-stop learn something new. Even useless things like "Seljuks in Chinese is "塞尔柱"." This is the last that I learned tonight so I gave it as the example.) But, at the same time, we should keep in mind that we also have to work on the "perceived IQ", i. e. to meet the expectation of the society (i. e. the mass, the most of the society, because there are also unique people like you, who aren't "typical mass"). Otherwise we're labeled as "losers" and it's not absolutely baseless because indeed if you have no social success (especially the money), you're nearly choiceless and powerless, freedomless as well. For example, you even can't travel when it comes to longer distances (the transportation isn't free) or you can't eat healthy food, etc. I learned this simple Chinese sentence: "钱是权" (Qian shi quan.) ("Money is power.", i. e. money gives you power/choice/right...)