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by bofadeez 1y ago
Oh you're right, it is very diverse in the NBA in terms of height and race. Not at all dominated by tall guys. The Duke Power Company had as many black people in management as the NBA has short players. Your argument is not even intern
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by bofadeez 1y ago
Flynn effect operates on the assumption that intelligence is a valid and measurable metric, while you previously argued it was not. You selectively do believe in when it affirms your bias? Nice one. You think you know more about this than e
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by bofadeez 1y ago
So you're arguing it ws low IQ vs low IQ? Okay... Do you have a point? I understand that you're upset for some reasno. Do you have a counter-point? You think the army is stupid and you know better? What is your point? Would you pr
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by bofadeez 1y ago
Are you Russian?
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by bofadeez 1y ago
So the NBA is discriminating by using physical tests that require height? Any kind of skill-based testing is obviously racist. Thanks for teaching me.
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by bofadeez 1y ago
If you dismiss IQ research, you might as well disregard all of psychology. The psychologists who developed intelligence tests were pioneers in using the statistical methods (e.g. factor analysis) that now underpin the entire field. IQ is de
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by bofadeez 1y ago
In practice, intelligence tests don’t depend on the specific questions asked. If you let a group of people generate their own questions, pool them together, sample randomly, and then rank scores, the same individuals would tend to rise to t
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by bofadeez 1y ago
This is a talking point from an old university class lecture interpreting factor analytic data on personality and IQ [1]. In practice, intelligence tests don’t depend on the specific questions asked. If you let a group of people generate th
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by bofadeez 1y ago
Around 50 million Americans fall below this threshold and are positively counterproductive for ANY military purpose, no matter how menial, no matter the shortage of recruits.
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by bofadeez 1y ago
The US Army requires a minimum AFQT percentile of 31 for enlistment which, based on standard IQ norms (mean = 100, SD = 15), maps to roughly an IQ of 85 (one standard deviation below mean). I.e. if you have an IQ below 85 you can't eve
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by bofadeez 1y ago
Of course it is[1]. Every single method used to screen a candidate is essentially testing for general mental ability. Being admitted to an Ivy League school is basically an IQ test. Interviews are basically IQ tests. Employers want to hire
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by bofadeez 1y ago
You can create a proxy for IQ by simply asking a group of people to invent their own questions, summing them together, randomly sampling from those questions, and then rank ordering the outcome. High IQ people will score in the top percenti
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by bofadeez 1y ago
Psychometrics has clear value. Cognitive ability predicts academic/job performance (Schmidt & Hunter 1998, Psych Bull), and standardized tests reliably forecast college outcomes (Kuncel, Hezlett & Ones 2004, Science). Conscient
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by bofadeez 1y ago
Agree. A lifetime license is the only model that makes sense for a wrapper. I wouldn't even pay $5/mo.
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by bofadeez 1y ago
Yeah it's the opinion of the western world. "We hold these truths to be self evident" is the preamble. These truths are not self evident to other cultures. Like yours
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by bofadeez 1y ago
I think the role of government is limited to that of protecting constitutional rights of citizens. People in impoverished countries live with extended family and share income and get along just fine. We shouldn't violate rights of indi
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by bofadeez 1y ago
Wages are not set by a company, they're set by the supply and demand of the market. Adding a minimum wage just criminalizes hiring anyone who is not productive enough to economically justify the minimum. It hurts unskilled poor people
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Like for example, your comment makes no sense. It reads like you got paid to write it. You're not contributing anything at all - just expressing that you feel something that most people would call "exaggerated" and "perf
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by bofadeez 1y ago
The PR only works on very old people and very low IQ people. It's just brute force at this point. Everyone knows what they're doing. Everyone here can identify the fake comments. They think they're slick but it's just th
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by bofadeez 1y ago
No this has been a talking point by top spacetime theorists for a very long time. E.g. https://www.cornell.edu/video/nima-arkani-hamed-spacetime-is...
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by bofadeez 2y ago
I'm fine with it. I don't mind his "attacks" it's just an abstract intellectual topic. Not everyone is high in neuroticism. Some people learn from heated debate. You're only in favor of learning styles that mak
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by bofadeez 2y ago
Why did you flag and remove that guy's responses? We're adults. We can handle it.
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by bofadeez 2y ago
That's not what is being discussed though. You missed the point.
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by bofadeez 2y ago
Yeah that's okay. You're suffering from a common thing. You just need therapy and then you'll learn you're good enough without accomplishments. Right now you think you need to accomplish things to have value. That's
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by bofadeez 2y ago
I'm glad you're taking time to learn about it. But all a state can do is either pass laws to protect natural rights, or they can pass laws to punish people with violence for exercising their natural rights. All laws are backed by
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by bofadeez 2y ago
Well that's not how it reads in historical documents to me. But you're free to have that opinion if you want to.
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by bofadeez 2y ago
Alright, noted. I'm not writing a law to be interpreted - it's a comment.
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I would tell the man that he should just take a class or read the Wikipedia on what a natural right is if he's so interested in it and using it to protect himself. I would tell him that commenting on it in this manner embarrasses himse
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by bofadeez 2y ago
Right. Just as it's not possible to discuss reinstitution of slavery. It's not open for dicussion.
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by bofadeez 2y ago
A law cannot remove a natural right. A law can protect a natural right or oppress people by using violence against them if they exercise their natural right. One stark example is the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 in the United States. This law

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