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Sure it is. If you take two five year olds with an IQ of 140 and one goes to school everyday and studies and the other's parents decide school is for suckers and pull him/her out of it and lock him a...

Fair enough.






Seems right. You can resign from any other job. If you got this job and then realised you don't know wtf you're doing and you're stressing out, or if you get sick, or...

What things? Are you saying someone who performs a logic puzzle better than another person, can do mental rotation more accurately, or has a larger vocabulary and better comprehension is reflecting...

Or let's say you could opt out ahead of time if you don't want the job. Better?

Is that true? I mean I get it if you're needed for some task no-one else can do that saves lives like cardiac surgeon, but I don't think your boss can say 'sorry Fred, you can't do jury duty we need...

Going back to the IQ debate, scores on different subsets of IQ tests (e.g., verbal, maths, spatial, logical) tend to correlate fairly highly with one another. IOW, people who score highly on one...

Nope. We don't have an opt-out for jury duty or getting drafted into the army in time of war (besides something serious like you're too sick or whatever). This would be considered your civic duty and...

They're certainly not flawless, but if they're not measuring intelligence it's hard to imagine what they are measuring.





No-one has designed a proper, validated IQ test that has a...

30 is considered a large sample according to the Law of Large Numbers. 650 is a lot bigger than that.

It would be virtually impossible to draw a sample of n=650 with a mean IQ outside the range of...

Here's another question: You went to the polling station and saw some candidates, none of which you thought were good enough to vote for. What if at the bottom of the list there was another choice,...

A sample of 650 randomly-selected people would have an average IQ very close to the population average. Some would be very smart, some would be dumbasses, and most would be in the middle.

The...

No, you're assuming it bothers me. It doesnt bother me, I just recognize it as a fact.





Exactly.

It has been going up a few points every generation, yes. The data are normalized to a mean of 100 and stdev of 15. So the average voter now is smarter than the average voter in 1900, if that makes...

I don't know where you're getting this information. Maybe you read something by some IQ-skeptic, dunno.

When you have a variable that is the summation of a large number of other variables, it's...

Here's an idea for how to fix democracy. Not sure how well it would work, haven't given it much thought, but seems better than what we have now.
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I include that under "shitty deal"





In a normal distribution, the mean = the median = the mode. IQ is normally distributed. So yes, half the people are below average IQ. I guess a little...

On a related note, I overheard the following conversation in the park yesterday:

A: "So what now, Scotland is going to separate?"

B: "Yeah. And who's going to pay for their membership in the...

It would be interesting to know how many spoiled ballots are cast deliberately as a means of protest and how many are just people fucking up on the cognitive part of the task.

This is so disingenuous as to be funny. The SNP was not the only party in Scotland that supported Remain.





And now he has 6 weeks (minus xmas) to do what the Tories haven't managed to do...

Remain parties won 52% of popular vote, Leave won 48%.

This, according to some math a guy on the internet taught me, is a decisive victory for Remain.

The reason Labour didn't win is because...

What's DDOS and how would it change the election results? If I had known that, I'd have tried it.

Enjoy your next ten years of being poorer than you are today.

More fake reporting. Not the PM being a knobhead at all.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp9XoiFbZcI

You feel unwell, yes. You don't feel like you can't breathe, not just from tonsillitis.




I'll try. It'd be easier if you actually thought before you spoke instead of just reflexively looking...

So, this CMO either doesn't exist or she's just lying to feed the liberal media?

Do you find her more trustworthy than the random guy on twitter you posted with no sources? Just wondering how deep...

Not sure I'd call it an ambush though. Seems fair game to say 'here's what happened today, what do you have to say about it?' All Boris has to say is 'mumble, mumble, children are the future, we're...