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Re:'Cancel Culture' Comes to Science? by threatofrain on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @10:43PM (#22051595)
General intelligence is as dubious as general AI in that performance in one domain can predict performance in other domains, and the degree to which that’s possible is attributed to general intelligence.
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Re:'Cancel Culture' Comes to Science? by JamesBarney on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @11:37PM (#22051794)
General intelligence was a statistical artifact discovered from testing. It basically a theory that if you do well on a history test you'll probably do well on a math test.
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