For gifted children, being intelligent can have dark implications (2015)

Re:For gifted children, being intelligent can have dark impl... by tajen on Friday February 12, 2016 @06:46AM (#11086588)

Maybe because its a pattern in real life? Popularized by movies? e.g. Malcolm in the Middle.

Maybe with the 3rd wave of feminism, men feel that they must voice their problems if we want to exist in society?

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Re:For gifted children, being intelligent can have dark impl... by dang on Friday February 12, 2016 @04:53PM (#11090954)

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11086572 and marked it even more off-topic.

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Re:For gifted children, being intelligent can have dark impl... by TazeTSchnitzel on Friday February 12, 2016 @06:49AM (#11086597)

Er, what does this have to do with men? It's not like this only afflicts boys.

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Re:For gifted children, being intelligent can have dark impl... by da1 on Friday February 12, 2016 @07:05AM (#11086653)

Everything that relates to outlier characteristics will disproportionately affect more boys than girls. The more extreme the outlier the much more likely it will be a boy.

This is just basic human biology that like the GP mentioned is routinely deliberately ignored by feminism.

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Re:For gifted children, being intelligent can have dark impl... by andrelaszlo on Friday February 12, 2016 @07:18AM (#11086695)

Are you referring to these Bell curves? :P

http://www.slideshare.net/terriko/how-does-biology-explain-t...

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Re:For gifted children, being intelligent can have dark impl... by evanpw on Friday February 12, 2016 @07:46AM (#11086806)

I think the GP is referring to differences in standard deviation, not mean, which causes the larger-deviation population to dominate at both the left and right tails.

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Re:For gifted children, being intelligent can have dark impl... by Lawtonfogle on Friday February 12, 2016 @11:09AM (#11088194)

I'm not saying the theory is right or wrong, only that people seem to have a much harder time understanding a theory based off of same means but different standard deviations than a theory based off of different means.

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Re:For gifted children, being intelligent can have dark impl... by da1 on Friday February 12, 2016 @07:48AM (#11086813)

Totally correct.

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Re:For gifted children, being intelligent can have dark impl... by da1 on Friday February 12, 2016 @08:55PM (#11092045)

Not one mention of variance in that presentation.

The author is either ignorant or just dishonest.

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Re:For gifted children, being intelligent can have dark impl... by tzs on Friday February 12, 2016 @08:16AM (#11086941)

Or as Helena Cronin succinctly described men: "more dumbbells but more Nobels".

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