Re:Taleb is wrong about IQ
by macspoofing on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @06:58AM
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>Technically, all logical implications are tautologies. Logic's weird like that.
Sure. That's why we tend to argue by induction ... even when we claim deductive reasoning. Deductive arguments aren't very interesting.
Re:Taleb is wrong about IQ
by selimthegrim on Monday July 29, 2019 @02:22PM
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I don’t know, you try working with a bunch of J-1s in a Santa Barbara hostel for a summer. It might make you wish unprintable things about the potato famine.
I'm curious, do you believe an average J-1 in a SB hostel has a lower IQ than, say, an average SBCC student?
Re:Taleb is wrong about IQ
by selimthegrim on Monday July 29, 2019 @03:46PM
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IQ is totally irrelevant. Turning up for work before noon and not being totally shitfaced/hungover when doing so is.
To give them credit, they worked doubly hard when they did show up and were sober and usually got 90% of what they were supposed to clean for the day done. Whatever other places they were trashing in IV on their nights out I can’t speak to
Technically, all logical implications are tautologies. Logic's weird like that.
"No. It was designed to identify children who are struggling in school. That was the original goal."
Yes. And as long as IQ testing is used to identify disabilities of individuals, I doubt seriously that anyone will find anything controversial.
On the other hand, one of the more immediate next uses was to argue for limiting immigration to the United States (from, IIRC, southern and eastern Europe; I think the drunken, sex-crazed, dim-witted Irish thing had blown over by then).