For as long as there have been human beings, we've been devising ways to grade and score

each other, as if it's important for everyone to have their specific slot on the ladder

of who's the best and who's the worst.

The very idea is fraught with peril and doomed to failure, but that hasn't stopped the IQ

testing industry.

This is one way we grade each other that we're better off doing without.

The truth behind IQ testing is today on Skeptoid.

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I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com IQ testing.

Don't you just love the idea that your level of intelligence can be boiled down to a single

number and ranked along with those of all the other dummies in the world.

You may have taken an IQ test in the past and may even know your score.

It's an unfortunate fact of statistics that half the people walking around are below

average intelligence.

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