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It’s easy to believe that, but if you can’t reasonably quantify it based on anything empirical, why bother? It’s a cognitive blind spot to assume communities y
by dsacco 9y ago
It’s easy to believe that, but if you can’t reasonably quantify it based on anything empirical, why bother?
It’s a cognitive blind spot to assume communities you’re a part of have a higher mean intelligence than the general population :)
- sametmax 9y agoI'm part of a lot of communities, and clearly HN is one of the rare where I am, more often than not, answered in comments by people more intelligent than me. So even if I'd consider myself an average Joe, it seems a good sign that HN has quite a lot of intelligent people. At least more than average.
- mrfusion 9y agoHi!
- SubiculumCode 9y agoWhile I cannot be certain that a randomly selected HN participant is above average intelligence, the average and is clearly is at least 1 SD above average, and the median is not 100. The quality of posts, in-depth knowledge expressed, nuanced, fluid, and flexible thinking, makes this a community in which I wish to participate, and this is coming from someone who frequently communicates with academic researchers and intellectuals in his daily life.
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