blandfordforever
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- Comment on brains! 5 weeks ago:
Look, I’m saying the same thing that I also found on Wikipedia. You just put the scores in order and then you fit them to a normal curve. This is what it means to scale them ordinally and then fit this to a normal distribution.
Its clear that we aren’t going to agree on this.
You seem to incorrectly think that an IQ of 0 would mean zero intelligence when I have explained exactly what an IQ of zero would mean.
- Comment on brains! 5 weeks ago:
I’m not saying intelligence is a normal distribution. I’m saying that IQ scores are a normal distribution.
The metric, IQ is a normal distribution because that’s how the metric is defined.
I’d like to hear your explanation how an IQ of above 200 is possible and what that would actually mean.
Its only possible if there are about 10x more humans. With a population of around 80 billion, the smartest one person would have a z score of roughly 6.6 and an IQ of roughly 200. This is calculated from a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15, which is how it’s defined.
- Comment on brains! 5 weeks ago:
I think the confusion is that IQ is not an objective measurement. It’s subjective.
Its not like say, height, where you can have a normal distribution and then a statistical outlier.
The IQ point isnt a constant, tangeable unit of measure, like an inch. Intelligence isn’t something you can put a ruler up to and say, oh that’s weird, this person with an iq of 300 is a statistical outlier.
IQ is defined statistically. You use some method of claiming that each person has a certain ranking of intelligence. Then you use a defined mean and SD to determine what IQ value that corresponds to, in the context of everyone else in the population.
- Comment on brains! 5 weeks ago:
You provided a link to reader’s digest. It’s not the most credible reference.
A negative IQ score and an IQ score above 200 would be possible with larger populations.
- Comment on brains! 5 weeks ago:
I have to disagree.
IQ as a measure of intelligence doesn’t work that way. The number can’t just get higher and higher because a person is really smart. A supreme, godlike intelligence doesn’t have an IQ of say, a million. IQ has a statistical definition.
If there are about 8 billion humans, then 1 of them is “the smartest” in some way. 1/8,000,000,000 is 1.2x10^-10, this has a z score of 6.33.
The current smartest person will have an IQ of (6.33x15)+100=195. No one has an IQ of 200. This isn’t because a person can’t be any smarter, it’s because this is how IQ is defined. If a pure, perfect, godlike intelligence exists in our current human population, their IQ is 195.
- Comment on brains! 1 month ago:
I understand that you’re saying there are more incredible geniuses than full on retards.
However, IQ scores are a normal distribution with an arbitrarily defined mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15.
So, IQ scores of 0 or 200 are both 6.6 standard deviations from the mean. If IQ is truly a normal distribution, you’d expect the number of people with IQ scores <= 0 and the number with scores >= 200, to be exactly the same, simply because this is how the scores are defined.
If you try to look up what proportion of the population falls outside 6.6 standard deviations, the z-tables don’t go out this far. It’s essentially 0%
- Comment on brains! 1 month ago:
Contrary to popular belief, we’re all profoundly stupid. Even the smartest among us spend enormous effort in their struggle to comprehend our surroundings.
- Comment on Haha SO TRUE! 1 month ago:
OK, I thought this was a study that was actually performed (and just happened to be written by a snarky author) until I got to the part about the effort scores. This is some high quality absurdity.
- Comment on Tiny pp 1 month ago:
Pretty sure you be able to cite a source for that.
- Comment on McDonald’s posts biggest decline in global sales in four years 2 months ago:
I was on a road trip and noticed a McDonald’s in a gas station that I’d stopped at. I was hungry so I took a peek. It was like $15 for a combo with what I assumed would be a pretty nasty burger. No thanks. I can get something delicious for that much money.
- Comment on How Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels 3 months ago:
Are there any good quality and relatively inexpensive microinverters for the U.S. grid? I’m affraid of the ones I see on amazon.
- Comment on Home Depot 3 months ago:
in my experience, it’s better to fuck in a van.
- Comment on This might also apply to conferences. 3 months ago:
Weiner! Butthole! Poop!
It is fun to say bad words, isn’t it. Makes you look cool, too!
- Comment on The banks that loaned Musk $13B to buy Twitter might be having regrets 4 months ago:
No, this is Patrick.
- Comment on Peugeot Rifter 4 months ago:
It looks like a Ford transit van had sex with a Honda element. I like it.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
Whatever. I just used a.i. to write my performance evaluation at work. I fed it a bunch of garbled, incoherent nonsense and made me sound productive AF.
- Comment on Found These on Etsy 4 months ago:
I’m surprised I haven’t seen any versions of this involving Rick James.
- Comment on Unreal Engine supervisor at ModelFarm blasts 50% failure rate with Intel chips — company switching to AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X, praises single-threaded performance 5 months ago:
I’m still running a 3700x and had been thinking about upgrading. Is the 5800x the best choice for am4?
- Comment on Using The Wind And Magnets To Make Heat 6 months ago:
I already have perfected several methods for the generation of hot wind.
- Comment on Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production 7 months ago:
No, Sodium like the PlayStation game Sodium.
- Comment on US Air Force successfully tests AI-controlled fighter jet in first dogfight against human pilots 8 months ago:
The Robin Williams movie “toys” is finally becoming a reality
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
I don’t really know how the different “classes” are defined. Everyone who isn’t either wealthy or homeless likes to believe that they’re middle or upper-middle class. I’d argue that if you can’t afford a home, you’re low or lower-middle class.
This is not meant to be a judgement against people who can’t afford homes. If anything, I’m just pointing out the horrible income inequality and how the “vanishing middle class” has indeed vanished, to a large extent.
- Comment on Long time 8 months ago:
Do one with the dick that curiosity drew on Mars
- Comment on California Replaces Gas Plant with Giant, Billion-Dollar Grid Battery 8 months ago:
In a package the size of only 12,300 elephants!
- Comment on Sooooo milk first 10 months ago:
It only took seven words for me to dislike this woman.
- Comment on A huge battery has replaced Hawaii's last coal plant 11 months ago:
Hawaii, I hope you all got that larger than life D.
- Comment on A huge battery has replaced Hawaii's last coal plant 11 months ago:
They are stored solar energy! Releasing the energy also unfortunately releases the carbon into the atmosphere.
- Comment on Scientists unveil methane munching monster, 100 million times faster than nature 1 year ago:
You seem knowledgeable. How can I increase my methane output?