dirnctiwnsidj

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   by dirnctiwnsidj 4y ago

   The measurement can be influenced by practice. The g factor—the thing IQ tests are designed to measure—appears to be immune to practice, though I am not sure how this was determined. Similar tests, like the SAT and GRE, are designed to wo
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   by dirnctiwnsidj 4y ago

   This sounds like sour grapes. Python is a general-purpose language. Languages like Awk and Perl and Bash are clearly domain-specific, but Python is a pretty normal procedural language (with OO bolted on). The fact that it is dynamic and hig
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   by dirnctiwnsidj 4y ago

   They are controversial amongst laymen, as evidenced by the discussion here. They are not controversial at all amongst psychologists. The notion that IQ tests have predictive power is about as settled as the notion that "people get sad
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   by dirnctiwnsidj 4y ago

   Maybe the theory is strange to you, but the correlation is real. Ability to solve these puzzles correlates with ability in a diverse range of cognitive abilities, including things like ability to write poetry that initially seem impossible