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Re:Trump administration has plan to scrap ‘startup visa’ rule by andrepd on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @06:36PM (#14608568)
>IQ testing

Excuse me for saying, but this alone suffices to reveal your character. IQ is an unscientific measure, full of holes, doesn't correlate in any meaningful way to success, let alone worth to society. IQ testing, really? Not success, not merit, not services to society, f*cking IQ testing. I mean, I take it you would rather have a 170 IQ shut-in doing nothing productive with his talents than a hardworking labourer or a celebrated NGO founder in your country?

I would venture further. If I had to wager I would say you got praised a lot for being smart when you were a child, maybe even got a good score in IQ testing at some point in your life. It skewed your view of things and now you reduce everything to that. But maybe I'm wrong.

Re:Trump administration has plan to scrap ‘startup visa’ rule by soldierofhayley on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @06:41PM (#14608601)
"In the normal population, g and IQ are roughly 90% correlated and are often used interchangeably."

Sorry the science doesn't agree with what you think it should be, I will be sure to let the scientists know.

https://www.iq-tests.eu/iq-test-IQ-and-general-intelligence-...

Re:Trump administration has plan to scrap ‘startup visa’ rule by andrepd on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @11:01PM (#14609831)
I literally have no idea what your point with that quote is.

Anyway, Wikipedia has a good overview of the main gripes with IQ: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient#Criticis...

Re:Trump administration has plan to scrap ‘startup visa’ rule by thebooktocome on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @11:39PM (#14609969)
Looks like grandparent could use a copy of Vigen's _Spurious Correlations_:

https://www.amazon.com/Spurious-Correlations-Tyler-Vigen/dp/...

I think it'd make a lovely coffee table book.