You really have no idea where you've wandered into, huh?
Attempts to smear Molyneux in this post alone:
unthinkable!
gasp!
our most trustworthy of friends! We are sure to listen to you now, foreigner!
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IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle
Josiah Davis
Jacob Hernandez
Truth. I did bad in school despite testing at 156 an IQ outlier by definition, which ironically makes me an example of a large part of talebs criticism.
But I have 149 level pattern recog though LOL
Logan Reyes
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That's just the thing isn't it? Most things in psychology cannot be replicated by science yet IQ always is. Mainstream science now even accepts that IQ is highly inheritable.
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IQ garnered attention because it has such a high correlation with success, even more than being born wealthy. Decades of research has yielded incredible results to the frustration of the Lysenkoists.
Ayden Anderson
It's a Prussian model utility
John Morgan
Your argument is an appeal to authority?
Jace Phillips
What gets me is that this faggot is focusing ONLY on IQ.
Why not attack the rest of psychology?
Why not attack the things that the political ideology of someone motivated to attack IQ - and it almost-always is political ideological motivation, not scientific curiousity (which is racist and if you want to investigate racial differences in cognitive ability you must be a fucking NAHTZEE!) - would typically use to support their claim?
Because this thread isn't about scientific curiousity, its about attempting to BTFO DA NAHTZEES and PUNCH A NAHTZEE NARRATIVE without even the vaguest sense of awareness of how obvious the intent is in such efforts.
Its like a communist holding up a poll showing that 14,000 people - out of a population of 1 billion people - say they were better off under communism, and then refusing to acknowledge similarly-scaled polls showing Africans and other third-world non-Whites saying the same about White colonial rule.
Colton Nelson
Taleb is correct. Read his works to understand his statistical argument (especially fat tail distributions). Now, that does not excuse him being impolite to people who disagree with him, but he has never been known for his tact, that's for sure. My own experience with highly intelligent people who achieve very little (at least, intellectually, professionally, or financially, say) seems to corroborate his thesis, although granted, that's circumstantial and does not prove anything in itself. As far as trying to impute any motive to his position other than intellectual integrity, good luck with that, and one thing it's for sure, it's NOT political correctness. The man is as politically incorrect as they come.
Christopher Jenkins
This might be the least persuasive stuff I've ever read. I might keep it around as an example of exactly how you *don't* persuade.
Brandon Williams
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Joshua Edwards