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Just a simple ratio: curse words/normal words over a period of time. There was some study that said smarter people are more likely to curse or something to tha
by drenvuk 5y ago
Just a simple ratio: curse words/normal words over a period of time. There was some study that said smarter people are more likely to curse or something to that effect but every experience with the smartest people I've come into contact with has shown me otherwise. Their vocabulary, positions in their line of work, logical arguments and grades when we were back in school are what make me think I'm right.
I'm willing to believe I'm wrong again because there could be any number of other factors. But we're talking about outrageous beliefs so here we are.
- deltaonefour 5y agoGiven the contradiction between the research study and your anecdotal experience I feel this experiment did not arrive at any meaningful conclusion. Maybe there was a recent influx of dumber HNers. Anecodotally I agree with your initial conclusion. I feel there's been an influx of dumb people.
- drenvuk 5y agoHow would you measure intelligence in something that could be contained in a simple sql query?
- deltaonefour 5y agoYou can't. Not all things can be molded into a quantitative analysis. For this stuff all you can rely on is your anecdotal judgement. Even though IQ isn't exactly the best metric for measuring intelligence (as the test can be gamed and people aren't even sure if it's actually an accurate measure of what we interpret as the definition of "intelligence."), I feel that if I had access to the IQ score of every user that joined HN, I feel this would be the best possible metric we can come up with as IQ does correlate with many real world attributes that we actually do associate with "intelligence."
- singularity2001 5y agoI thought highly intelligent people curse a lot