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Re:Why the world needs deep generalists, not specialists by tptacek on Monday November 19, 2018 @12:25AM (#18484387)
I like how when Richard Feynman's IQ test score doesn't conform to some narrative, HN is in contortions with excuses why the test doesn't matter, but when we come around to the topic of white IQ supremacy, suddenly HN is armed to the teeth with factoids about how g-loaded and circumstantially neutral the mainstream IQ tests are.
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Re:Why the world needs deep generalists, not specialists by sultanofswing on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @01:26AM (#18492162)
This seems like a reach, especially considering I don't personally believe the latter point you're making about IQ tests being neutral.

I'm not an expert on psychometrics, I think all I'm trying to point out is that Feynman performed highly on other tests that likely correlate highly with IQ, so I believe it more likely that there is some confounding factor at play other than this being representative of his actual IQ.

Or maybe that his IQ averaging here doesn't tell us much about which domains he scored highest in (some posit that he may have scored very poorly in a verbal section vs. mathematical etc.).

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Re:Why the world needs deep generalists, not specialists by kinkrtyavimoodh on Monday November 19, 2018 @02:12AM (#18484644)
Or perhaps there is a difference between one-off individual measurements and group statistics, but please feel free to feel outraged...

Sorry for the snark but do you honestly not see that there is a difference between the two cases?

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Re:Why the world needs deep generalists, not specialists by linkregister on Monday November 19, 2018 @01:17AM (#18484517)
Thomas, were the same folks making these comments?
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Re:Why the world needs deep generalists, not specialists by watwut on Monday November 19, 2018 @03:13AM (#18484843)
In that case, the question is, why those two groups of people never interact and never discuss with each other? You would expect a discussion or fights between these groups once in while.
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Re:Why the world needs deep generalists, not specialists by linkregister on Monday November 19, 2018 @11:55PM (#18491883)
Yes, and one might find them in the "comments" section of a technology news aggregator.
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Re:Why the world needs deep generalists, not specialists by tptacek on Monday November 19, 2018 @01:25AM (#18484534)
No, I am just sort of throwing up my hands and howling into the void here.
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Re:Why the world needs deep generalists, not specialists by adwn on Monday November 19, 2018 @02:32AM (#18484712)
Maybe that's because a single data point [1] of a single person doesn't refute decades of research and heaps of evidence?

[1] An unreliable/uncertain one, even.

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