What Does It Profit To Take Iq Tests
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("Mental masturbation" is a term coined and popularized by Grady Towers in one of his well-known essays on IQ and high-IQ societies to describe the tendency of Mensa members and typical members of Internet high-IQ societies to habitually engage in fruitless and unproductive intellectual puzzles and games and in repetitively taking online IQ tests and showcasing their IQ-test scores on the Internet rather than help solve some of society's and the world's pressing scientific and social problems with their giftedness...)
What does it profit to take IQ tests
when giftedness is prized by all the world,
but half-smart fools waste it? How to digest
then this abuse? May this sin be unfurled
and laid bare to all so these fools graduate,
and lay aside their intellectual games
and puzzles than mentally “masturbate,”
to never rise to lofty genius's aims.
If Plato, Newton, Einstein, Beethoven,
or Shakespeare had been content to misspend
their gifts away, then the world of mere men
would long have come to its benighted end!
Therefore, reform your minds, ye half-smart fools;
and once more test yourselves again in schools.
Copyright © Ngoc Nguyen | Year Posted 2021
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