It’s a moral matter you imbecile. If you think distilling the multifaceted idiosyncrasies of the human mind down to a simple number is a reasonable manner in which to… ‘rate’ people, then you can kiss my fat Australian nutsack.
It may be valid but it does not allow comparing two human’s levels of intelligence and definitely not what they accomplish in life.
Consider this:
person may have had a bad day while taking the test
test wasn’t taken according to standards (time, quiet room, etc)
IQ tests don’t take into account creativity, emotional intelligence and all that
IQ tests that aren’t EXACTLY the same are not comparable, you’ll find a lot of supposed IQ tests on the Internet that aren’t real IQ tests or simply allow you to spend as much time as you like on them …
– many more reasons why single-number IQ values are an extreme oversimplification of human intelligence –
But in the end, this is what is way more important than IQ for determining success: one Indie developer may simply have had more luck, or the right connections, or doing the right thing at the right time on the right platform, better marketing aptitude, touched fundamental feelings with their graphics or gameplay, spent a lot of time polishing and playtesting, etc etc etc
None of that has to do with a number you get from some test.
You don’t need an papers.
IQ measuring is pointless and only used for psychological purposes.
When I was kid, and went to do test, because of my dyslexia, I remember doing test ok. But rather slow. Some type of questions were based on knowledge, some on excesire of specific techniques.
I tell you that, If I went again day after, even with different type of questions, my IQ would be higher.
I never care. Never used dylexa papers on exams. And it never stopped me from doing Universities.
What matter in any profession, regardless IQ, is being determined and consequent in reaching life goals.
Also, lazy people won’t achieve anything business wise, regardless of IQ.
No because I don’t believe in such a garbage concept. But I have met people who potentially never had the right opportunity to learn, or were never taken seriously, or were born into unfortunate circumstances. Or any infinite number of reasons as to why they are in the circumstance they are today.
All humans have the potential of brilliance. All humans are different. We just live in a sh*tty world where idiots like this thread’s poster believes everything boils down to a stupid number.
The thing is programming ability is inherently problem solving and an IQ test is just that. So there should be a strong correlation between game development potential and IQ.
Or what other ways are there of programming to solve game problems other than programming?
Think of: diminishing returns. The attitude is at some point more important than your IQ. You’ll find a lot of articles and books mentioning the “star programmer” syndrome that killed teams, projects, companies.
On some level you are correct, you will find it hard to be a great programmer with a sub-100 IQ. Statistically speaking.
But you don’t need a 130 IQ to be a great programmer. 100 will do just fine if you know and/or are willing to learn best practices. Problems that are really difficult to tackle are being worked on in a team anyway.
In general IQ tests represent the thinking-correlation between the persons who thought the given questions and the person who answers the questions.
Not more not less.
The reason why IQ test results correlate with educated people is because people with high education write the questions.
he says outrageous things because that earns him more money
Also, the us military does not have an IQ requirement. 10 seconds on google can confirm that. There is an asvab requirement, which is the militarys own general aptitude test.
More important than “how dumb am I?” is “how lazy am i?”
Somebody who takes whatever a controversial figure says as truth without doing the bare minimum fact checks must be lazy, in my opinion. I doubt a lazy game developer could get very far.
But the thing about laziness is, you can go from laziest bum to hardest worker who ever existed with the flip of a switch. How fair is that?
take a close look at this site your are linking. Does it look like a legit scientific journal to you?
the asvab is not an IQ test, it is an aptitude test. If you can tie your shoes, or you can be instructed to tie your shoes by receiving loud, simple verbal commands one at a time, you can score a 30.
Virtually anybody who is not suffering from a full blown mental disorder can pass and be able to do something useful in the military.
Jordan peterson preys upon people, young men especially, who suffer from poor self-esteem. This sort of nonsense is meant to make people feel like they are special in a good way, when in fact they are mediocre in a bad way.
It’s no secret some people are quicker than others, but in a discipline as broad as game dev nobody is going to have all the right smarts in all the right places. It takes a team. Carmack didnt make doom alone, and almost anybody can make a better version of Doom today in no-time using modern tools and sans a team. Because teams of developers over the past decades have been improving the toolsets and recording all the wisdoms gained along the way and its all just out there on the internet, free for the taking.
The stupidest thing you can do is start believing that you are smart.
