In my experience, people who have a low IQ does not equate to accepting the nonsense that 5G masts cause coronavirus.

@anglophone Really? Then how do you account for people believing this nonsense?

@Marionville Factors other than just having a low IQ. A tendency towards being credulous is also a requirement. Consider somebody with a low IQ who is firmly convinced that coronavirus is a hoax, for example.

@anglophone Factors other than,..yes, but I reckon it’s a fairly large factor.

IQ can be increased or decreased by environment either natural or social. IQ test are also not reliable universally as cultural implications cannot be taken into account satisfactorily.

@Geoffrey51 I agree with what you say, but only to a point. Native intelligence is primarily a matter of genetics. It can be increased, but not to a hugely significant degree. The IQ tests may not be completely accurate, but they are a good general indicator.

In some ways it is very much the failing of the education system. For so long governments have promoted education as only, a means to ascend the narrow conventional employment ladder. For the vast majority of people therefore, who have no ambitions to ascend that ladder beyond the lower levels, or even any expectations of employment, plus those with unconventional ambitions, it is seen as simply pointless.

While the really important benefits of education, that it can make you a happier and more fullfilled human being, better able to use the benefits of leisure, and a better member of society with a better understanding of the world in which you live, plus an immunity to pseudo education and expliotation by commercial, religious and political cults and institutions, go mainly neglected, both in the education system and its promotion.

Why you would think that those commercial religious and political institutions had a vested interest in keeping people ignorant.