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From the author's (funnier, better) blog post on the subject: >Second, the people who get low IQ scores, are shocked, find their whole world tumbling in on the
by invalidOrTaken 9y ago
From the author's (funnier, better) blog post on the subject:
>Second, the people who get low IQ scores, are shocked, find their whole world tumbling in on themselves, and desperately try to hold on to their dream of being an intellectual – are not a representative sample of the people who get low IQ scores. The average person who gets a low IQ score says “Yup, guess that would explain why I’m failing all my classes”, and then goes back to beating up nerds. When you see someone saying “Help, I got a low IQ score, I’ve double-checked the standard deviation of all of my subscores and found some slight discrepancy but I’m not sure if that counts as Bayesian evidence that the global value is erroneous”, then, well – look, I wouldn’t be making fun of these people if I didn’t constantly come across them. You know who you are
- fjsolwmv 9y agoThat doesn't look funny or better to me, that looks bitter and hateful for no reason. This person thinks half the world spends their time beating up nerds?
- invalidOrTaken 9y agoI'll just give you the context and you can decide for yourself: http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/27/against-individual-iq-worries/ http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/27/against-individual-iq-w...