K, nm, just give up then.Sure—you can “get a friend/family member to get you an internship or something”. If you’re well-connected.
K, nm, just give up then.Sure—you can “get a friend/family member to get you an internship or something”. If you’re well-connected.
A friend of mine is in the processes of getting into medical school. It sounds like a big hassle. I wont comment on whether it is worth it or not but the American medical association is a huge (((scam))) that tries to purposefully tries to limit the number of doctors.Are there any medical doctor on this forum?
I am applying to the med uni soon but the process is cold and unwelcoming. I have very good grades/scores but am wondering if it is worth it.
Is it true that once accepted people are friendlier and it gets better?
I moved from the hood of a big city to smaller town in rural California for college. I became more conservative by going to college due to the influence of the other students, the country people, and just having to tough it up and get by on my own. I attended college on financial aid and have a degree in a high paying field. Leaving home for college has been the best decision of my life. Even if it put me 50k into debt would still have been worth it.I completely agree that college is a waste of time these days, not only because it is an debt trap, but also because the content and subject matter taught at these schools only further pushes the global technocracy agenda.
A lot of men will say that liberal arts push SJW nonsense and they are right. But they have a blind spot towards STEM, which is the male side of the evil college coin. The graduates are promised jobs with money and high social status only to work for corporations and industries that have their goals to control and exploit the population ex.big tech, big pharma, food and health industries. STEM is a more powerful and revolutionary force than any BLM or feminist movement they push on the other side.
Therefore college is not bad only because of its economic inviability but also because it puts young men and women onto revolutionary paths of cultural or technological revolution.
I'm a medical student in europe, and here its definitely not worth the hassle. It takes at least 7 years to become a doctor, and pay after that is less than the average plumber. If you want to earn more you have to do a 6 years residency, during which you will be paid little as there is a large surplus of doctors in my country. Also you need at least a phd and 2 years of experience working as a junior doctor before applying to a residency. Pay as specialist (if you can even find work as one) is reasonable.Are there any medical doctor on this forum?
I am applying to the med uni soon but the process is cold and unwelcoming. I have very good grades/scores but am wondering if it is worth it.
Is it true that once accepted people are friendlier and it gets better?
I would question how accurate this is. For example Iran and India being that low IQ? The history and accomplishments of their civilizations and the success of their diasporas in foreign countries makes me a little suspicious of the reported numbers. It does not intuitively make sense.View attachment 29790
When you bring people into a blue country with no in-group preference from the red and yellow countries on this map who have a strong in-group preference, what happens is you get affirmative action, welfare, an end to gifted programs, and racial quotas. We've seen all that happen. This doesn't help the people who are low-IQ either. It just makes them spiteful, greedy materialists like Americans typically are.
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When you bring people into a blue country with no in-group preference from the red and yellow countries on this map who have a strong in-group preference, what happens is you get affirmative action, welfare, an end to gifted programs, and racial quotas. We've seen all that happen. This doesn't help the people who are low-IQ either. It just makes them spiteful, greedy materialists like Americans typically are.
I would question how accurate this is. For example Iran and India being that low IQ? The history and accomplishments of their civilizations and the success of their diasporas in foreign countries makes me a little suspicious of the reported numbers. It does not intuitively make sense.
And a lot of African countries probably do not have good data on IQ. Some African countries on the map allegedly have IQs under 65. That sounds outrageous. IQ below 70 according to some definitions means you are literally retarded. You are basically saying multiple whole countries are literally retarded? That sounds a little suspicious to me. This map seems to have a political agenda.
Very progressive. Not to rag on the sub saharan Africans, but these are people that did not have access to the wheel before Europeans, and never built a 2 story structure. I do not believe any of them independently developed a writing system. Their languages are very simple and lack abstract concepts. Good luck expressing a concept like Schadenfreude through clicks, or drafting plans for a windmill without an arithmetic or writing system. They also never needed to plan for the future; as hunter gatherers they are always doing just that, hunting and gathering, there is no long off season for them to plan for. In northern Europe, people who cannot delay gratification or plan ahead would historically starve to death in the winter.I agree the map looks off.
- the "high IQ" nations also look like the nations that shot themselves with COVID kill shots with the greatest enthusiasm. Not intelligent behavior.
- IQ is a poor measure of intelligence that only measures one specific type of reasoning, and depends highly on the type of schooling you had up to that point. A bush African who can kill his own food with a homemade spear is more intelligent than a European or American blue-haired "college" "student" regardless of IQ number. But, if you ask him something like "which of these weird looking shapes does not belong in the sequence" he would have no idea. That's not because he and his entire nation are retarded.
I say this as someone who scores high on IQ tests but has suffered from a painful lack of common sense throughout life.
What field are you in?I moved from the hood of a big city to smaller town in rural California for college. I became more conservative by going to college due to the influence of the other students, the country people, and just having to tough it up and get by on my own. I attended college on financial aid and have a degree in a high paying field. Leaving home for college has been the best decision of my life. Even if it put me 50k into debt would still have been worth it.
Good on you.I mostly disagree with the title of the thread, of course it does depend on what you study. I'm in a specialized field and get paid pretty well. I would have never been able to get all the jobs leading up to this one or this one without going to school, it just wouldn't have happened. I also worked and 1 continue to work extremely hard, always learning new things and adapting.
I would love to own my own business or have gotten an elite MBA and be making bank, but I didn't 2 and that door seems closed now.
Very progressive. Not to rag on the sub saharan Africans, but these are people that did not have access to the wheel before Europeans, and never built a 2 story structure. I do not believe any of them independently developed a writing system. Their languages are very simple and lack abstract concepts. Good luck expressing a concept like Schadenfreude through clicks, or drafting plans for a windmill without an arithmetic or writing system. They also never needed to plan for the future; as hunter gatherers they are always doing just that, hunting and gathering, there is no long off season for them to plan for. In northern Europe, people who cannot delay gratification or plan ahead would historically starve to death in the winter.
Furthermore, in these jungles with year round food, getting expelled from your village is not a death sentence. You can start a new tribe or join another one. A thousand, two thousand years ago in northern Europe, you get exiled from your tribe in winter and you're dead. They're not building prisons to feed you after a crime, it's either exile, capital punishment, or death. The significance of that is that Europeans, particularly in the north, are literally bred for compliance. You need to comply with the dominant culture or you die. As a result they have high degrees of social trust. Those are the places you could leave your doors unlocked. That explains the submission to covid.
IQ is absolutely an important metric and is extremely highly correlated with your ceiling of capability, crime rates, reaction times, and other things. There is no better metric. Yes pattern recognition is important. It's a very left wing thing to dismiss the importance of IQ. IQ also cannot to any meaningful extent be increased through schooling.
Edit: The truth in what you're saying is that wisdom is distinct from IQ. A 75 IQ hunter gatherer can absolutely be more wise than a 120 IQ doctor (who doesn't even know what a woman is). If you could measure wisdom, it would be the same map essentially with the colors reversed now that the West has largely abandoned Christianity. But if you take a group with a median IQ of 120 vs a group with an IQ of 75, the latter group will never be able to build the great wonders of the world like the pyramids, the Brandenburg Gate, the Taj Mahal, etc., no matter how many resources and blueprints you give them.
Edit: The truth in what you're saying is that wisdom is distinct from IQ. A 75 IQ hunter gatherer can absolutely be more wise than a 120 IQ doctor (who doesn't even know what a woman is). If you could measure wisdom, it would be the same map essentially with the colors reversed now that the West has largely abandoned Christianity. But if you take a group with a median IQ of 120 vs a group with an IQ of 75, the latter group will never be able to build the great wonders of the world like the pyramids, the Brandenburg Gate, the Taj Mahal, etc., no matter how many resources and blueprints you give them.
Very progressive. Not to rag on the sub saharan Africans, but these are people that did not have access to the wheel before Europeans, and never built a 2 story structure. I do not believe any of them independently developed a writing system. Their languages are very simple and lack abstract concepts. Good luck expressing a concept like Schadenfreude through clicks, or drafting plans for a windmill without an arithmetic or writing system. They also never needed to plan for the future; as hunter gatherers they are always doing just that, hunting and gathering, there is no long off season for them to plan for. In northern Europe, people who cannot delay gratification or plan ahead would historically starve to death in the winter.
IQ is absolutely an important metric and is extremely highly correlated with your ceiling of capability, crime rates, reaction times, and other things. There is no better metric. Yes pattern recognition is important. It's a very left wing thing to dismiss the importance of IQ. IQ also cannot to any meaningful extent be increased through schooling.
Edit: this is just a snippet of the original post by Charles Hugh Smith.Things are different for the top tier of the already-wealthy. When family money pays for college and the down payment on a house, the lucky offspring have no student-loan debt chains hobbling them and none of the hopeless Red Queen's Race of trying to save up a down payment as housing prices accelerate away from the hapless savers.
Family money offers other cost-free goodies to the fortunate offspring: use of the family vacation home, income from family trust-fund assets, the benefits of family connections (for example, the advantages given to alumni of prestigious schools in terms of admitting their offspring) and valuable class-based memberships, both formal and informal.
Trying to reach the same level as the already-wealthy is a path to burnout and frustration, as the chasm is too wide to leap. Those gambling in the GBOAT casino are winning now, but relying on number 22 coming up again and again is becoming increasingly risky. The speed with which the phantom wealth of debt-asset bubbles can collapse is not widely understood, and the collapse will catch most punters off-guard.
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I mostly disagree with the title of the thread, of course it does depend on what you study. I'm in a specialized field and get paid pretty well. I would have never been able to get all the jobs leading up to this one or this one without going to school, it just wouldn't have happened. I also worked and continue to work extremely hard, always learning new things and adapting.
I would love to own my own business or have gotten an elite MBA and be making bank, but I didn't and that door seems closed now.