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by porfirio 15y ago
Does this mean self-absorbed hipsters cum wannabe food critics are worth something? The end is near. Yelp does a great service though. But half the reviewers are just intolerable attention whores. Found this hilarious explication: http://w
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by porfirio 15y ago
I noticed something similar, though not as a programmer. I tested videogames one summer, where it was my job to locate and report bugs. It was soon apparent that there was huge variation in productivity: some people submitted more and bette
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by porfirio 15y ago
"Featured Stops Starbucks (Coffee Shop) In-N-Out Burger (Burgers) Chevron (Gas Station / Garage) McDonald's (Fast Food) Jack in the Box (Fast Food) Los Pinos Mexican Restaurant (Mexican) Six Flags Magic Mountain (Theme Park) Westfield Valen
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by porfirio 15y ago
Novel claims require evidence. Here is another link: http://discovermagazine.com/2005/oct/sex There are more genes related to intelligence on the X chromosome than on just the X and Y chromosomes. There are still 22 other pairs of chromos
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by porfirio 15y ago
This article doesn't tell us what we think it does. In America, the relationship between drug use and high IQ is small or non-existent: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-scientific-fundament... (Someone else linked this earlier) Des
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by porfirio 15y ago
A Scottish study found that IQ is stable, over a 66 year period. http://homepages.ed.ac.uk/ijdeary/papers/SMS32_98.pdf Also, just because one can game the test, or make its result less accurate, it doesn't mean the population level data
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by porfirio 15y ago
"IQ is heritable, but the catch is that it may, in fact, only be heritable through the mother's half of the genes contributed to the child [1]." Do you have a source for this that isn't, um, from the Simpsons? Geneticists have an equation f
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by porfirio 15y ago
"IQ is also correlated with revenue (probably because that's what it actually measures: socio-economic class)" False. Charles Murray compared brothers of the same household of different intelligence levels, and found significant disparities
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by porfirio 15y ago
I know a fair amount about IQ, having studied it a bit, and I'm surprised. IQ correlates pretty strongly, with law abiding behavior, at the very least, not going to jail. High IQ people are less socially dysfunctional than average and low I