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SneerClub@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 year ago

IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle

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IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle

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SneerClub@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 year ago

Background : “IQ” is a stale test meant to measure mental capacity but in fact mostly measures extreme unintelligence (learning…

Taleb dunking on IQ “research” at length. Technically a seriouspost I guess.

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yes, way too much of it is. Taleb is extremely smart, but nobody is as smart as Taleb thinks he is.
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  High-end stats is kind of Taleb’s thing, so he gets to be as insufferable as he likes dunking on IQiots imo.

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