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Give users a basic IQ and personality test. Provide different content based upon where they fall.

brackin 15y ago
Surely this won't make those considered stupid any smarter. Why shouldn't someone less intelligent be allowed to read and interact with an intellectual conversation. It's not that easy to group people in such ways.
- georgieporgie 15y ago
  It's not about segregation, it's about content promotion. Why should content-promotion algorithms be intelligence agnostic?
  - iamdave 15y ago
    it's about content promotion. Why should content-promotion algorithms be intelligence agnostic? Because a "stupid" person might find the same thing interesting as a "dumb" person, hence the upvoting model. People who are inclined to agree are just as inclined to upvote these items, promoting them to a position where other people can consume said content.
    - georgieporgie 15y ago
      And a dumb person may not find the same thing interesting. Do you have any research to indicate one way or the other? If not, why take a position against the notion of intelligence- and personality-based content? Incidentally, in a sense, that's the old OKCupid model, but instead of LOLcats, it showed you potential relationship partners.
      - iamdave 15y ago
        If not, why take a position against the notion of intelligence- and personality-based content? See also: "The King's New Clothes".
  - pavel_lishin 15y ago
    Why should they only use intelligence as their metric?
    - georgieporgie 15y ago
      Where did I advocate using only intelligence?
parfe 15y ago
What does IQ have to do with content? Steven Hawking could enjoy lolcats and your garbage man might be an ardent reader of philosophy. Stereotyping based on IQ or profession is fairly stupid. Smart people can like dumb things and dumb people can enjoy intellectual pursuits. If you want to pigeon hole people into categories go back to a high school cafeteria.
- hackinthebochs 15y ago
  Is it even possible to have a dumb person who enjoys truly intellectual pursuits? I'm not outright stating its impossible, but I'd like to see a plausible scenario.
  - goebbels 15y ago
    You are assuming that your are not dumb and that any of your life pursuits have been the slightest bit intellectual. Consider this, how likely is it that the act of trying to make or prove a point on the internet is stupid and what about the act makes you an intellectual or smart person?
  - bbq 15y ago
    You'll have to define 'dumb' and 'truly intellectual' first. One might define a 'dumb' person as one who is incapable of enjoying 'truly intellectual pursuits' (whatever that means). In this case, no it's not possible but it's also pretty meaningless.
- georgieporgie 15y ago
  The only stereotyping and pigeon-holing here is on your part.
  - parfe 15y ago
    Did you just "I know what you are, but what am I?" me? Anyway, dumb and smart people do not have disparate interests. I bet you probably feel like you're in the smart category and you think that means other smart people think like you, but things like football, NASCAR and /r/jokes attract a wide swath of humanity. If I score high on my IQ test you going to show me nothing but "smart" pursuits? Chess, Go, Astrophysics? Bio chemistry? How about sustainable farming? Or animal husbandry? How about kinesiology? That qualify as smart to you? Or does hanging out with the jocks mean you're stupid by association? You don't have to defend your statement to the death. You can just say "Geeze, I didn't think about it and IQ isn't really a good indicator for what a user may want to see as content."

Surely this won't make those considered stupid any smarter. Why shouldn't someone less intelligent be allowed to read and interact with an intellectual conversation. It's not that easy to group people in such ways.

georgieporgie 15y ago
It's not about segregation, it's about content promotion. Why should content-promotion algorithms be intelligence agnostic?
- iamdave 15y ago
  it's about content promotion. Why should content-promotion algorithms be intelligence agnostic? Because a "stupid" person might find the same thing interesting as a "dumb" person, hence the upvoting model. People who are inclined to agree are just as inclined to upvote these items, promoting them to a position where other people can consume said content.
  - georgieporgie 15y ago
    And a dumb person may not find the same thing interesting. Do you have any research to indicate one way or the other? If not, why take a position against the notion of intelligence- and personality-based content? Incidentally, in a sense, that's the old OKCupid model, but instead of LOLcats, it showed you potential relationship partners.
    - iamdave 15y ago
      If not, why take a position against the notion of intelligence- and personality-based content? See also: "The King's New Clothes".
- pavel_lishin 15y ago
  Why should they only use intelligence as their metric?
  - georgieporgie 15y ago
    Where did I advocate using only intelligence?

parfe 15y ago

What does IQ have to do with content? Steven Hawking could enjoy lolcats and your garbage man might be an ardent reader of philosophy. Stereotyping based on IQ or profession is fairly stupid. Smart people can like dumb things and dumb people can enjoy intellectual pursuits. If you want to pigeon hole people into categories go back to a high school cafeteria.

hackinthebochs 15y ago
Is it even possible to have a dumb person who enjoys truly intellectual pursuits? I'm not outright stating its impossible, but I'd like to see a plausible scenario.
- goebbels 15y ago
  You are assuming that your are not dumb and that any of your life pursuits have been the slightest bit intellectual. Consider this, how likely is it that the act of trying to make or prove a point on the internet is stupid and what about the act makes you an intellectual or smart person?
- bbq 15y ago
  You'll have to define 'dumb' and 'truly intellectual' first. One might define a 'dumb' person as one who is incapable of enjoying 'truly intellectual pursuits' (whatever that means). In this case, no it's not possible but it's also pretty meaningless.
georgieporgie 15y ago
The only stereotyping and pigeon-holing here is on your part.
- parfe 15y ago
  Did you just "I know what you are, but what am I?" me? Anyway, dumb and smart people do not have disparate interests. I bet you probably feel like you're in the smart category and you think that means other smart people think like you, but things like football, NASCAR and /r/jokes attract a wide swath of humanity. If I score high on my IQ test you going to show me nothing but "smart" pursuits? Chess, Go, Astrophysics? Bio chemistry? How about sustainable farming? Or animal husbandry? How about kinesiology? That qualify as smart to you? Or does hanging out with the jocks mean you're stupid by association? You don't have to defend your statement to the death. You can just say "Geeze, I didn't think about it and IQ isn't really a good indicator for what a user may want to see as content."