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The tallest man in history was 8'11". If a 14' man shows up, an absurd outlier even among outliers, is all we're able to conclusively say that he is taller tha
by marginalia_nu 11mo ago
The tallest man in history was 8'11".
If a 14' man shows up, an absurd outlier even among outliers, is all we're able to conclusively say that he is taller than 8'11"?
- Viliam1234 11mo agoYeah, this is a mistake everyone makes, and it is difficult to explain to people who didn't study statistics. The short version is that intelligence is an ordinal value, not a cardinal value. You can say that person A is more intelligent than person B, but not that person A is exactly 3.14515x more intelligent than person B. Intelligence is simply measured in percentiles, that's all. You can't be more intelligent than 100% of the population. The 100% of the population is the population of Earth. You cannot get a higher IQ score than that.