Chase Fisher delivers a short, opinionated YouTube monologue arguing that IQ should be understood primarily as pattern recognition and replication. He claims that the ability to find and repeat patterns explains why some people become self-made rich — equating wealth earned this way with having a high IQ — and contrasts this practical view with traditional academic measures like math or literature.
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Some people cannot get rich. Me and my friends were talking about this and we all say like, oh, we're not that smart. This guy's smarter than me. And we still make a lot of money, whatever it is, right? We just say that we don't have a high iq. But if you look at IQ tests, what does it look like? It's not numbers, it's not sentences, it's patterns. Meaning you have to be able to find patterns to be determined to have a high iq. So what is making money and why can't most people do it? It's because most people can't identify patterns. So if you are not rich, you cannot identify a pattern, meaning you have a low iq. And if you are rich, it means you identify the pattern, replicated it and got rich. So anybody that has money and is self made has an high IQ because they found a pattern and replicate it. And that is the definition of having an iq. It's not math problems, it's not literature. It's literally solving problems and finding patterns in things. So if you're rich, you are not dumb, you actually have a high iq.