I didn't know the IQ denialism would spring up here. Since I'm an expert in the field, I will supply some basic references for the deniers and everybody else curious. It is a very important field to understand, as intelligence is very important in our society, and becoming increasingly more important, thus making it increasingly more important to understand it, and its implications.
"But IQ is a load of tosh anyway. Depending on which set of tests you try you get staggeringly different results."
No. All IQ tests and all other mental tests measure the same thing (g-factor = general intelligence) but to different degrees (their g-loadedness). All mental tests correlate positively.
"All IQ tests show is that you can do an IQ test, nothing to do with "intelligence"."
A claimed lack of validity (inability to predict other things; only being about 'test smartness' etc.). Flatly contradicted by the evidence. IQ scores (g-factor even better) is the best predictor for many areas of life, most importantly education level.
" The vast majority of IQ questions rely on pattern recognition questions."
This is probably true, that's because pattern recognition ability is very closely related to intelligence.
" Personal example my uncle has an incredibly high IQ (measured by MENSA), but has been known on occasions to call an electrician to his house when a light-bulb has blown, not what I would call smart"
Anecdotes are not important.
"How higher IQ correlates to great peripheral view and time reactions to visual stimuli?
I do remember a study showing that medical students that were gamers were more proficient at operating surgical robots and instruments than their non gamer counterparts.
So forgive me for being a bit skeptical about the assumption that IQ relates to physical time responses to visual input."
It is well known among experts and very well replicated. See Arthur Jensen's Clocking the mind.
http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/Arthur_R._Jensen_Clocking_the_Mind_Mental_ChronBookos.org_.pdf
" You should be. No specific study was cited, so we don't know what it really said. Sound bite summaries like "Higher IQ is correlated with better reaction times" are usually misleading to the point of just being lies."
No 'sound bite', it is a empirically very well replicated finding. See above reference.
" Also, it is well established that there are several different kinds of intelligence which are independent of each other. There is a longstanding, ongoing debate about how many kinds there are, but no debate that there's a multiplicity."
Nothing could be further form the truth. There is about zero research going into multiple intelligence 'theories'. And when actually tested, they are not independent of each other.
See http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/?p=3677 and http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/?p=3889
"One of those kinds of "physical intelligence." Athletes are typically strong in this, and it covers the ability to use your body effectively. Reaction time may very well be correlated with this. I don't remember seeing any correlation between reaction time and the (worthless) measure of general IQ."
There is no such thing as "physical intelligence", and no standard tests to measure this.
For someone so dismissive of IQ testing, one would have assumed that you had at least read Wikipedia! Alas, this is clearly not the case.
For those claims I made above without citing specific literature, consult any textbook on the topic, or other introductory reading. Here are some:
Not a good study. They didn't control for IQ. Intelligence is known to affect such things. Might just be that their gamer sample is smarter than their non-gamer sample.
One would have thought that TD would have taken a more down to earth perspective. So, someone made an app to make one look like a stereotype from another race? Who cares. If you don't like it, then don't use it.
"Lord Rothermere was a friend of Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, and directed the Mail's editorial stance towards them in the 1930s.[30][31] Rothermere's 1933 leader "Youth Triumphant" praised the new Nazi regime's accomplishments, and was subsequently used as propaganda by them.[32] In it, Rothermere predicted that "The minor misdeeds of individual Nazis would be submerged by the immense benefits the new regime is already bestowing upon Germany". Journalist John Simpson, in a book on journalism, suggested that Rothermere was referring to the violence against Jews and Communists rather than the detention of political prisoners.[33]
Rothermere and the Mail were also editorially sympathetic to Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists.[34] Rothermere wrote an article entitled "Hurrah for the Blackshirts" in January 1934, praising Mosley for his "sound, commonsense, Conservative doctrine".[35] This support ended after violence at a BUF rally in Kensington Olympia later that year.[36]"
Presumably a lot of shoppers of VS products are males, and I imagine that being associated with feminism puts off male customers. I certainly try to avoid in any way supporting neofeminists. For one thing, I don't buy Carlsberg beers, since they women's quotas for the BoD.
There already are websites for collecting stories about incompetent policemen. I think Maggie mentions them once in a while (https://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/), altho I can't seem to recall the name of the site right now.
It is not too surprising that fuckups happen often in the US. Why? Because of the IQ cap on policemen. Yes, they have a cap. (http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/01/too-smart-to-be-a-good-cop/#.UNPHHYaGdcM)
Such hypotheses have already been tested. They always fail tests. Hell, studies usually show the opposite trend: people that download more for free, also buy more.
Training for SAT scores doesn't help very much. It's just a money making industry. SAT/ACT tests are largely intelligence tests, and intelligence is difficult to change.
Overdosing is generally a consequence of prohibition. With legal controlled drugs, that won't happen often. Please take the time to actually study the subject.
"Sorry, but no. "Decriminalize the drugs" sounds very nice and idealistic, but in the real world it's a horrible idea."
No. It is sad that you don't know what you're talking about. I hope you will take the time to correct this and actually study the subject.
Try these:
http://www.leap.cc/read-discuss/publications/
Read End Prohibition Now!
http://www.world-war-d.com/
Read the book
http://www.drugpolicy.org/resource/war-drugs-and-hivaids-how-criminalization-drug-use-fuels-global-pandemic
Read the report
http://profdavidnutt.wordpress.com/
Read all the posts
If you can do that and still think prohibition is a bad thing, then you are irrational. There is simply no room for rational disagreement on this issue. There is only not being informed about the evidence.
Only a single person need have done so to make it work, and since Dan Bull had a copy on his local machine, that's at least one. I wouldn't be surprised if he has a few fanbois out there who downloads all his videos. Hell, some people might even have predicted that this might get taken down and thus saved an offline copy.
Here is a case study with ContentID and YouTube. The system is already so unworkable that it blocks videos for pretty much no known reason.
A friend of mine is a member and webmaster of a local karate club. He wanted to upload a video of a recent competition on YouTube, but the video was repeatedly blocked because some unknown company "R.I." claimed copyright infringement. Nowhere did it say what it claimed copyright about. Indeed, in the end my friend got so annoyed that he completely removed audio from the film. BUT! It was still blocked for infringement! It was a video captured with a private video camera with no sound, and still it gets flagged. It is impossible to get any additional information about the alleged infringement as the "R.I." is not sufficient information to determine anything.
And they want to make the system even worse in Germany? They are truly insane.
So, can someone upload it somewhere? I'm not saying that much for a book. They must be crazy. They are trying to compete with free other ebooks I can download, and 15-25 USD is a crazy amount. If it was 5 USd for a non-DRM PDF and the money went to the author, I'd gladly pay.
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I seem to have found a promising link. I'd rather have a PDF tho. I guess I can convert it.
http://avaxhome.ws/ebooks/Politics_Sociology/0804760063.html
IQ denialism
I didn't know the IQ denialism would spring up here. Since I'm an expert in the field, I will supply some basic references for the deniers and everybody else curious. It is a very important field to understand, as intelligence is very important in our society, and becoming increasingly more important, thus making it increasingly more important to understand it, and its implications.
"But IQ is a load of tosh anyway. Depending on which set of tests you try you get staggeringly different results."
No. All IQ tests and all other mental tests measure the same thing (g-factor = general intelligence) but to different degrees (their g-loadedness). All mental tests correlate positively.
"All IQ tests show is that you can do an IQ test, nothing to do with "intelligence"."
A claimed lack of validity (inability to predict other things; only being about 'test smartness' etc.). Flatly contradicted by the evidence. IQ scores (g-factor even better) is the best predictor for many areas of life, most importantly education level.
" The vast majority of IQ questions rely on pattern recognition questions."
This is probably true, that's because pattern recognition ability is very closely related to intelligence.
" Personal example my uncle has an incredibly high IQ (measured by MENSA), but has been known on occasions to call an electrician to his house when a light-bulb has blown, not what I would call smart"
Anecdotes are not important.
"How higher IQ correlates to great peripheral view and time reactions to visual stimuli?
I do remember a study showing that medical students that were gamers were more proficient at operating surgical robots and instruments than their non gamer counterparts.
So forgive me for being a bit skeptical about the assumption that IQ relates to physical time responses to visual input."
It is well known among experts and very well replicated. See Arthur Jensen's Clocking the mind.
http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/Arthur_R._Jensen_Clocking_the_Mind_Mental_ChronBookos.org_.pdf
" You should be. No specific study was cited, so we don't know what it really said. Sound bite summaries like "Higher IQ is correlated with better reaction times" are usually misleading to the point of just being lies."
No 'sound bite', it is a empirically very well replicated finding. See above reference.
" Also, it is well established that there are several different kinds of intelligence which are independent of each other. There is a longstanding, ongoing debate about how many kinds there are, but no debate that there's a multiplicity."
Nothing could be further form the truth. There is about zero research going into multiple intelligence 'theories'. And when actually tested, they are not independent of each other.
See http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/?p=3677 and http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/?p=3889
"One of those kinds of "physical intelligence." Athletes are typically strong in this, and it covers the ability to use your body effectively. Reaction time may very well be correlated with this. I don't remember seeing any correlation between reaction time and the (worthless) measure of general IQ."
There is no such thing as "physical intelligence", and no standard tests to measure this.
For someone so dismissive of IQ testing, one would have assumed that you had at least read Wikipedia! Alas, this is clearly not the case.
For those claims I made above without citing specific literature, consult any textbook on the topic, or other introductory reading. Here are some:
http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/Intelligence-a-very-short-introduction.pdf
http://www.udel.edu/educ/gottfredson/reprints/1997whygmatters.pdf
http://www.udel.edu/educ/gottfredson/reprints/2002notamystery.pdf
http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/The-g-factor-the-science-of-mental-ability-Arthur-R.-Jensen.pdf
http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/42937846-The-g-Factor-General-Intelligence-and-Its-Implications-Chris-Brand-Race-Difference-IQ-School-Grades-Exam-Results-Educational-Achievement-Alex-Jon.pdf
Not a good study. They didn't control for IQ. Intelligence is known to affect such things. Might just be that their gamer sample is smarter than their non-gamer sample.
I made a meme for it
It's a good quote. I made a meme for it. I intend to post it tomorrow.
http://postimage.org/image/x3r04yap5/full/
Re:
They might simply not have asked about it.
Re: Re:
You mean "steal"? ;)
The amount of political correctness is...
One would have thought that TD would have taken a more down to earth perspective. So, someone made an app to make one look like a stereotype from another race? Who cares. If you don't like it, then don't use it.
History
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Mail#Inter-war_period
"Lord Rothermere was a friend of Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, and directed the Mail's editorial stance towards them in the 1930s.[30][31] Rothermere's 1933 leader "Youth Triumphant" praised the new Nazi regime's accomplishments, and was subsequently used as propaganda by them.[32] In it, Rothermere predicted that "The minor misdeeds of individual Nazis would be submerged by the immense benefits the new regime is already bestowing upon Germany". Journalist John Simpson, in a book on journalism, suggested that Rothermere was referring to the violence against Jews and Communists rather than the detention of political prisoners.[33]
Rothermere and the Mail were also editorially sympathetic to Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists.[34] Rothermere wrote an article entitled "Hurrah for the Blackshirts" in January 1934, praising Mosley for his "sound, commonsense, Conservative doctrine".[35] This support ended after violence at a BUF rally in Kensington Olympia later that year.[36]"
Male shoppers
Presumably a lot of shoppers of VS products are males, and I imagine that being associated with feminism puts off male customers. I certainly try to avoid in any way supporting neofeminists. For one thing, I don't buy Carlsberg beers, since they women's quotas for the BoD.
Fuck the police
There already are websites for collecting stories about incompetent policemen. I think Maggie mentions them once in a while (https://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/), altho I can't seem to recall the name of the site right now.
It is not too surprising that fuckups happen often in the US. Why? Because of the IQ cap on policemen. Yes, they have a cap. (http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/01/too-smart-to-be-a-good-cop/#.UNPHHYaGdcM)
Re: such hypotheses have already been tested
Such hypotheses have already been tested. They always fail tests. Hell, studies usually show the opposite trend: people that download more for free, also buy more.
SAT scores and trainability
Training for SAT scores doesn't help very much. It's just a money making industry. SAT/ACT tests are largely intelligence tests, and intelligence is difficult to change.
Re: And for bigger numbers ...
keep in mine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales#Comparison
million = 10e6
milliard = 10e9
billion = 10e12
billiard = 10e15
trillion = 10e18
so 10e6+10e18=1000000000001000000 half way is 1000000000001000000/2 = 500000000000500000.
Logarithmic scales makes more sense for large numbers.
1+9=10/2=5
or, 5?4={1,9}
Re: There are 4 outcomes here, 2 of them bad, 1 is great and 1 is so-so
Those aren't equiprobable.
Re: Re: Yer kidding right?
Overdosing is generally a consequence of prohibition. With legal controlled drugs, that won't happen often. Please take the time to actually study the subject.
Re: Re: Yer kidding right?
"Sorry, but no. "Decriminalize the drugs" sounds very nice and idealistic, but in the real world it's a horrible idea."
No. It is sad that you don't know what you're talking about. I hope you will take the time to correct this and actually study the subject.
Try these:
http://www.leap.cc/read-discuss/publications/
Read End Prohibition Now!
http://www.world-war-d.com/
Read the book
http://www.drugpolicy.org/resource/war-drugs-and-hivaids-how-criminalization-drug-use-fuels-global-pandemic
Read the report
http://profdavidnutt.wordpress.com/
Read all the posts
If you can do that and still think prohibition is a bad thing, then you are irrational. There is simply no room for rational disagreement on this issue. There is only not being informed about the evidence.
Please take the time to correct your mistake.
Re:
Only a single person need have done so to make it work, and since Dan Bull had a copy on his local machine, that's at least one. I wouldn't be surprised if he has a few fanbois out there who downloads all his videos. Hell, some people might even have predicted that this might get taken down and thus saved an offline copy.
ContentID system
Here is a case study with ContentID and YouTube. The system is already so unworkable that it blocks videos for pretty much no known reason.
A friend of mine is a member and webmaster of a local karate club. He wanted to upload a video of a recent competition on YouTube, but the video was repeatedly blocked because some unknown company "R.I." claimed copyright infringement. Nowhere did it say what it claimed copyright about. Indeed, in the end my friend got so annoyed that he completely removed audio from the film. BUT! It was still blocked for infringement! It was a video captured with a private video camera with no sound, and still it gets flagged. It is impossible to get any additional information about the alleged infringement as the "R.I." is not sufficient information to determine anything.
And they want to make the system even worse in Germany? They are truly insane.
Re: DRM
Or remove the DRM with one of the many free programs that do that.
So...
So, can someone upload it somewhere? I'm not saying that much for a book. They must be crazy. They are trying to compete with free other ebooks I can download, and 15-25 USD is a crazy amount. If it was 5 USd for a non-DRM PDF and the money went to the author, I'd gladly pay.
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I seem to have found a promising link. I'd rather have a PDF tho. I guess I can convert it.
http://avaxhome.ws/ebooks/Politics_Sociology/0804760063.html