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by glofish 7y ago
I believe that IQ tests (at least the majority of those that I took or seen) are mostly built as abstract problem-solving tasks, similar to those needed to be productive in modern society. Not sure how one would even measure the "inte
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by glofish 7y ago
IQ has a bad rap (rightfully so, thus no disagreement there). In the cited works they use tests that in the past were called IQ tests - though here all are called cognitive-scores. Why wouldn't IQ tests be great for studying short term
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by glofish 7y ago
whatever skills IQ tests measure these do correlate (and better than other readily measurable predictors) with various long term successes what throws most people off is that the skill that IQ test measure is not a just an innate ability bu
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by glofish 7y ago
but that's what IQ test are, standardized tests. not sure where hilarity comes into play ... it has well defined statistical properties perhaps you mean that the results of IQ tests can be, and often are grossly misinterpreted, that is
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by glofish 7y ago
All IQ tests are (ought to be) standardized for the target population. The median IQ should be 100, with a standard deviation of 15. If the median IQ is not 100 over the population, the test is flawed.
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by glofish 7y ago
No that is not what it is claimed. Pollution reduces your IQ, not that it makes your IQ lower than someone else's. The people living in those cities form a so-called "self-selecting" sample. They are probably, on average bett
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by glofish 7y ago
I think saying here is toilet where your poop does not smear is a much better slogan.
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by glofish 7y ago
"any effect on their quality of life" - what I meant ... now does being motivated to fix a leaky toilet that otherwise you wouldn't have bothered to do count as a quality of life decrease?
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by glofish 7y ago
I have a feeling that the vast majority of transactions are from bots like this, from the naive "moneymakers" (like this one with a $3 return) to ones with extreme sophistication. The naivete here is that it only makes money if th
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by glofish 7y ago
Unpopular opinion warning! Getting people to save water is one of the simplest things in the world! Water is the cheapest material that people have access to. It is so cheap it has been devalued to the extreme. Fill a backyard pool? That&#x
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by glofish 7y ago
Honestly, it is not so obviously better to have hundreds of tiny stores in each neighborhood, stocked every day rather than going out doing grocery shopping once(!) a week! I am sure there is a tradeoff there - the many delivery trucks suff
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by glofish 7y ago
I got an anecdata as well: Having lived in a European city I was appalled of how bad the air quality was, how noisy the streets were, how annoying trash collection at 5am was, I had to use a wet mop on the hardwood floor almost on a daily b
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by glofish 7y ago
Not so obvious that it isn't. How many hours are spent stuck in traffic? How much loss is that to society. Perhaps people would start moving closer along the rail lines, now that frees up land from sprawl. Etc. The same rail line could
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by glofish 7y ago
not exactly. there is a big difference between an API exposed to all other programmers in the world - versus one that is there for say compatibility. Their entire API works the same way as Java system and you program it as Java - it would b
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by glofish 7y ago
They could design their own API and provide an "invisible shim" that transforms the calls to the original API into theirs.
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by glofish 7y ago
zero y-mins are usually recommended to show both the absolute values and relative variation at the same time. Based on my own experience, the number of plots that are misleading because they do not start at zero is far greater than that of
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by glofish 7y ago
I think that inverting the order, putting the text on the left and code on the right would work much better. For me, it felt quite unnatural to go against the normal reading direction. I believe that because we read left-to-right, and the a
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by glofish 7y ago
Look MA! I doing journalism right now! Writing words - an opinion piece no less - and somebody - THE PUBLIC even - actually reads it. Take that journalist! I bet you can't just write code with the ease I just wrote this very article!
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by glofish 7y ago
I think the quality of journalism done by a bunch of software engineers will be identical to the quality of the software written by a bunch of journalists.
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by glofish 7y ago
Incidentally, I was asking you specifically how you felt about it, not the parent or the OP. Also, in addition, the "how you feel about it" does not really mean emotionally, it means what is your opinion on systematically mislabel
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by glofish 7y ago
Would you feel the same way if the site implemented a feature where if you clicked any link it would first detour you through a donation flow? Say the link said Tutorial or Documentation but when clicked it would go to Donate instead... T
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by glofish 7y ago
Your argument is a bit like: here is this amazing long-distance runner who trains for years at a time, had he put all that effort into painting he would be a new Picasso. For what is worth computers are unique tools unlike any other tool th
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by glofish 7y ago
why would being born in the current century preclude one from making fundamental contributions? You are making a common mistake of assuming that just because someone is good at something like programing computers the same skill would transl
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by glofish 7y ago
I don't know how much this applies to others but I really don't want the people that I transact with to have my facebook identity. Plus I don't want that track record following me around. Unlike other communication that is mo
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by glofish 7y ago
I will mention though that food is always a lot more than a collection of sugars/fats etc. Putting a date into your blended oat milk is, nutritionally speaking, very likely immensely different (and very likely more beneficial) than put
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by glofish 7y ago
I general I believe that people don't like to mix entirely different tasks. Chatting with friends is not the same as buying stuff. It can really poison the atmosphere. The very act that you could send money makes you less engaged.
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by glofish 7y ago
they want you to buy something that they show you in an ad I am eager to see how it well it works in practice
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by glofish 7y ago
I agree, american cars have a driving quality to them that other cars do not. I drive Mazda (higher resale value) I wish I could "afford" american ("afford" in the sense of not minding a lower resale value). The engine i
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by glofish 7y ago
The director needs to take a break from Final Fantasy style RPGs.
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by glofish 7y ago
I will disagree here, a dark pattern is a design that tricks you into doing something you did not want to do. You have no evidence to support that most users would not prefer the current arrangement where they don't have to come back a

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