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Re:Has an uncomfortable truth been suppressed? by Symmetry on Monday September 10, 2018 @08:12AM (#17951171)
I thought that scientists had just devised a way to determine fluid intelligence at least from an fMRI scan?

https://neurosciencenews.com/brain-scan-intelligence-9477/

It's not especially accurate but it does work.

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Re:Has an uncomfortable truth been suppressed? by hef19898 on Monday September 10, 2018 @08:19AM (#17951225)
If your error margin is still bigger the scale of what you want to measure...

But I wasn't aaware of that development, so thanks for pointing it out!

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Re:Has an uncomfortable truth been suppressed? by quotemstr on Monday September 10, 2018 @01:48PM (#17953551)
Plenty of instruments extract useful signals from below the noise floor. (See deep space communication with Voyager.) The idea that you can't do anything of "your error margin is...bigger than the scale of what you want to measure" is mathematical nonsense.
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Re:Has an uncomfortable truth been suppressed? by hef19898 on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @03:14AM (#17957738)
Agreed. But that is relevant to measuring the IQ using MRT-Scans how?
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