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Given the contradiction between the research study and your anecdotal experience I feel this experiment did not arrive at any meaningful conclusion. Maybe ther
by deltaonefour 5y ago
Given 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."