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Fun fact: there's a test you can do called wordsum which correlates extremely highly, like .71, to IQ. It's just asking you 10 vocabulary questions. It turns ou
by cm2012 4mo ago
Fun fact: there's a test you can do called wordsum which correlates extremely highly, like .71, to IQ. It's just asking you 10 vocabulary questions. It turns out knowing advanced vocabulary correlates really well to IQ.
- summarybot 4mo agoI don't know if I can get behind .71 implying "correlates really well" ... that's the issue I had recently with talking with GPT, it was evaluating my logical reasoning ability based on the vocabulary I was employing. You don't need fancy words to be intelligent.
- rcxdude 4mo agoI think people don't often have a good intuition about what different correlation coefficients actually look like or imply.
- cm2012 4mo ago.71 explains about 50% of the difference, its bigger than the effect size of Advil or Tylenol
- cm2012 4mo agoHigh school GPA correlates much worse (.41). SATs correlates with IQ better - .82 or so.
- Vaslo 4mo agoI can see how that’s confusing. But I always remembering people saying “can I speak candidly about this?” With them following up going off on the subject in detail and lots of emotion.