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>> Not an argument Totally an argument when "statistics" frequently just means, "I put my small sample size of confounded variables in Excel and ran the stat f
by jstewartmobile 9y ago
>> Not an argument
Totally an argument when "statistics" frequently just means, "I put my small sample size of confounded variables in Excel and ran the stat functions."
>> There is almost none signifact scientific/cultural innovations that came form Africa.
You mean people living in undeveloped countries aren't going to be on the forefront of cultural innovation? I'm shocked.
>> IQ study is the most well-researched and studied branch of Psychometry and usual attemps at "disproval" are centered around bogus arguments around enviroment being the dominant factor (where study finds that 50%-80% of it is genetic)
Never even addressed nature vs nurture. I'm sure if any other bunch of quacks spent a hundred years tweaking a test to predict their idea of intelligence, I'm sure it would. I'd be less sure about it predicting the forms of intellect they failed to consider.
- averagewall 9y agoIQ strongly predicts academic success. Whatever other forms of intelligence it might be missing, are either unknown or don't correlate with academic success so strongly. Google is concerned with academic success and so IQ is also bound to be a strong predictor of hireability by Google. Maybe Kenyans are better at running but so what?
- partycoder 9y agoThe differences in IQ can be explained by other factors other than genetic. e.g: - dietary iodine affects your IQ positively - exposure to lead (e.g: leaded fuel emissions), arsenic (e.g: from water) and pollution at a large affects your IQ negatively