In this fascinating video a man interviews a woman who states she has MMR (Mild Mental Retardation), also known as Educable Mental Retardation, which is typically diagnosed to people with IQs somewhere between 50-55 to 69, combined with real-world maladaptive behavior, though the precise diagnostic criteria would vary from state to state. Educable Mild Mental Retardation is one level up from Trainable Moderate Mental Retardation.
In the video he praises her for being so upfront and nonchalant about her condition (Dude, I got the mental retardation) and then proceeds to give her a little impromptu intelligence test he seems to be making up off the cuff. The items are:
1. Who were the Wright Brothers?
2. Who was the first President of America?
3. Was the Civil War in 1860, 1820, or 1780?
4. What was the Civil War for?
5. Why do we Americans speak English?
6. Why do they speak Spanish in Mexico?
7. Why do they speak Portuguese in Portugal?
8. What’s the biggest country in the World?
9. How many moons does the Earth have?
10. Is the moon bigger or smaller than the Earth?
11. Is the moon as big as America, Seattle or Washington?
12. Is the sun bigger or smaller than the Earth?
13. If the Earth were my fingernail, would the sun be as big as the TV, the house, or Seattle?
14. When were Airplanes invented: World War II, World War I or the Civil War?
15. What’s 4 * 4?
16. What’s 16/4?
17. What’s 16 – 4?
She answers about 6 of the 17 questions correctly.
Pumpkin Person 
this makes me really sad.. there but for the grace of god..
Yes, it very poignant.
said the subject of the video.
LOL
#8,11, & 13 would probably be hard for people even of average IQ
I wonder what percent of the U.S. population would get all 17 right.
peepee’s uncle tom mantra assumes that revolution isn’t required let alone advisable.
she makes the all too human mistake of confusing the social world with the natural world.
peepee’s uncle tom mantra assumes that revolution isn’t required let alone advisable
It depends on what your goal is. If you are motivated to advance only your own personal individual interests, then starting a revolution might be maladaptive. But if you’re motivated to advance your group interests, or advancing the interests of justice, then starting a revolution might be very adaptive, depending what group you belong to.
I view intelligence as just the part of the brain that computes the solution to the problem. Emotions, feelings and motives are what generates the problem which needs to be solved.
Now high IQ people might be more motivated to solve more abstract problems (justice) and thus ironically appear superficially less adaptable to observers than lower IQ people with more understandable goals, but that’s just a misunderstanding.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
—George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) “Maxims for Revolutionists”
is the pope catholic?
inter alia, the consequences of adapting oneself to the world are:
still in the centenary of 1915, the great war is as george will has said in his only lucid moment the most significant event since the resurrection.
the social pressure was ineluctable for most:
Emotion is energy, focus requires energy.
You can control it to grow new connections.
General intelligence means your focus is good.
Because it expands what you can do.
I think I have PTSD.
My dad hit me when I was a one year old.
And cartoons made me cry allot by the sad stories.
I can answer all 17 questions.
I know number 13 because of watching Bill Nye the Science guy.
If earth was the size of a fingernail the sun would be the size of a house.
I wrote an essay about how I love science in 5th grade.
So I went to a Magnet middle school in the science part.
When I asked the teacher in the computer class why do the pixels glow she said ones and zeros, I learned later it was because of phosphorus.
I read all the books in the middle school library about artificial intelligence.
When I told a kid that I was designing an A.I. he said people would steal it.
I tried to explain that the computer chip design cannot be copied because the plastic on top would rip the transistor apart but he still said they could do so, so I designed a way for the chip to self destruct if tampered with, he still said it would not work. I also discovered that carbon nanotubes in the pictures look like they are made of tubes. So it can create a fractal structure. When I was in foster care in 2004 I used chicken wire to make small tubes. Then I used the small tubes to create a bigger tube the same shape as the smaller tubes.
I scanned everything I could into the computer of what I drew in 2006. This is only one third of what I did, lost most of what I did. I also made Microsoft paint drawings in window 98. I made stop motion animation videos in lego movie studios in 2000.
http://s782.photobucket.com/user/JeremyRexWilson/library/?sort=3&page=1
I keep everything in 3 binders.
I remember the 5th grade teacher printed out a paper of the three people at Bell labs who invented the transistor. An a picture of the first transistor. I did not know transistor were logic gates until 2002. But I did gave a presentation on it in class. I drew this picture in 1999 when I saw the poster for an iMac laptop in the elementary school hallway.
seems so “quaint” today. “we” are so much wiser and more cynical.
are “we”?
over the top boys.
but the ultimate issue is, as i have at least adumbrated before.
belief in good and evil is passe in the modern world.
why?
because there’s no way to prove that such and such is good or such and such is evil by the rules of the current “governing discourse”. and the rules may always be claimed to be such that talk of “good” and “evil” are excluded as meaningless.
in fact, the very use of the word “evil” has become unfashionable.
w was ridiculed for using the phrase “evil doers”…but for all the wrong reasons.
Way back in the 1990s, Oprah praised bill clinton for using the word evil to describe the Oklahoma bombing. She loves the word evil but most elites hate it because they fear it makes them look like religious bumpkins who see the world in black & white & not post-modern intellectuals who see every shade of grey
Pumpkin, why Chartreuse is still commenting here ? I find him extremely annoying, and not so smart.
Is that a selfie? Your argument is invalid.
Pumpkin keeps him around to serve as entertainment for readers too dumb to follow his content.
LOL! No!
Jorge Mugabe is a rare specimen.
Too brilliant to be understood by the masses, too contrarian to be understood by his intellectual equals.
Contrary to the word salad accusations, his prose is actually a model of…
ZEN
A little bolding here, a little italicsing there.
Read Christopher Hitchens, Being and Time, watch comedy of manner films poking fun at rich upper-class WASPs, and Monty Python
Speak with a Trans-Atlantic accent, and expound on norms of reaction while drunk. And you trace your lineage back to the Mayflower.
You’ve become CHARTREUSE
Oh Secretariat
Pumpkin admitted it himself, in the archives.
(I’m sure that Oprah would have kept it in her big brain, I taunt~)
N 13 is probably wrong. I said ‘house ” too, but “TV set” seems to be right. Sun diameter/Earth diameter= appr.109
There was no reason hide the A.I. design after all.
I thought I had to protect it but it has been set free.
Now everyone is looking at it and it is teaching them.
14″You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden; 15 nor does anyone light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. 16″Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
PP
Great post. You can ‘tell’ she’s slow just by the way she speaks and he stories she tells.
You can’t tell someone’s IQ by looking at them but you can tell someone’s IQ with a short conversation and be in the general ball park.