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Most human intelligence is within a fairly narrow band. Most people I’ve ever met have their own unique intelligences. Perhaps it might be good to meet more peo

Most human intelligence is within a fairly narrow band. Most people I’ve ever met have their own unique intelligences. Perhaps it might be good to meet more people without holding the self-looping dichotomy of “smart people” vs “normal people”. In my experience it tends to lead to huge cognitive errors.

cjbgkagh 1y ago
As mentioned I’m in the rather unique position to have analyzed the complete browser history for a substantial number of people - I have learned far more than I wished to. The behaviors of very high IQ people are rather distinct from regular IQ people due to IQ being both largely generic and those genes having other comorbidities. Most obviously is the depression, anxiety, and bipolar disorders. This is so obvious that even regular researchers have uncovered it. I think what happens to many people is they confuse their desired reality with actual reality by looking at everything through a tinted lens. In being a data scientist in pursuit of actual reality I’ve had my desired reality repeatedly challenged far more than a person not in this industry. My desired reality was that intelligence was more common and I believed that until it was shown to me in data that I was wrong.
- taurath 1y ago
  What gets me the most about this is how certain you are that because you have some data about people’s browser history you can make these conclusions. I hope age and experience avails you of these notions - there is no master database that will tell you the nature of people. All you have is the data you have - I’m sure there are many interesting insights and confounding results, but it’s foolish to think you can know anyone from a database, or social media. Genetic comorbidities with IQ? You at least have a lot to learn about mental health as well if you’re using these as examples.
  - cjbgkagh 1y ago
    I think it is you who is blinded by your prior biases. It's not that I have 'some data', it was a mountain of data, and it was my full time job to analyze it specifically for behavioral information with a number of other researchers also doing the same, and we'd compare notes with other research orgs in other companies. I have a feeling that I've thought about this topic far more than you have. At this point we'll just have to agree to disagree.
  - WhatNow1010 1y ago
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cjbgkagh 1y ago

As mentioned I’m in the rather unique position to have analyzed the complete browser history for a substantial number of people - I have learned far more than I wished to. The behaviors of very high IQ people are rather distinct from regular IQ people due to IQ being both largely generic and those genes having other comorbidities. Most obviously is the depression, anxiety, and bipolar disorders. This is so obvious that even regular researchers have uncovered it. I think what happens to many people is they confuse their desired reality with actual reality by looking at everything through a tinted lens. In being a data scientist in pursuit of actual reality I’ve had my desired reality repeatedly challenged far more than a person not in this industry. My desired reality was that intelligence was more common and I believed that until it was shown to me in data that I was wrong.

taurath 1y ago
What gets me the most about this is how certain you are that because you have some data about people’s browser history you can make these conclusions. I hope age and experience avails you of these notions - there is no master database that will tell you the nature of people. All you have is the data you have - I’m sure there are many interesting insights and confounding results, but it’s foolish to think you can know anyone from a database, or social media. Genetic comorbidities with IQ? You at least have a lot to learn about mental health as well if you’re using these as examples.
- cjbgkagh 1y ago
  I think it is you who is blinded by your prior biases. It's not that I have 'some data', it was a mountain of data, and it was my full time job to analyze it specifically for behavioral information with a number of other researchers also doing the same, and we'd compare notes with other research orgs in other companies. I have a feeling that I've thought about this topic far more than you have. At this point we'll just have to agree to disagree.
- WhatNow1010 1y ago
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