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IQ
TODO
* Hitler * Ada Lovelace
* Donald Trump * Lassie * Goethe
* Bill Gates * Neil De Grass * Charles Babbage * Terence Tao
* Adam Smith * Bjarne Stroustrup * Unabomber
* Steve Jobs * Pikachu * Einstein * Jara Cimrman
---------capitalists----------- * Terry Davis
-------------blacks---------------- * Britney Spears * Kasparov
---------------women (white)--------------------- * Richard Feynman * William Sidis
----------CEOs--------- * drummyfish
trees- ---------webdevs-------- ---janitors--- -------true programmers------------ (see test below)
--soldiers-- ------apolitical/centrist/confused------ ------LRS----
------------coders-------------
--feminists-- ---dolphins-- ----geeks-------- -----type A/B fail---
--chimps--- -------atheists------ -----nerds----------------------------
------------------------------------------whites----------------------------------------
----------------------------------asians-----------------------------------------
----------------------------------jews-------------------------------------------
---fascists--- ---called genius-- --called retarded---
influencers-- _.---._
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| | _|_____.|..---'|' | | | '|'---..|._____|_ | |
--+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+--
| SD 6 | SD 5 | SD 4 | SD 3 | SD 2 | SD 1 | SD 1 | SD 2 | SD 3 | SD 4 | SD 5 | SD 6 |
10 25 40 55 70 85 100 115 130 145 160 175 190
--idiot--|-imbecile|--moron---|
------mental retardation------|
(official medical terminology) |-----68%-----|
|------------96%------------|
|------------------99.73%-----------------|
|------------------------99.994%------------------------|
IQ follows the normal distribution, measure scales are usually centered at 100 with standard deviation 15, above we see the distribution along with approximate placement of certain groups and individuals. Notice how interesting people are either far to the right or far to the left.
Is IQ a useful measure and if so, how important is the score? This is the controversial question discussed over and over, modern "inclusive" society dismisses IQ as basically useless because it points out differences between races etc., some rightist are on the other hand obsessed with IQ too much as it creates a natural hierarchy assigning each man his rank among others. True significance of IQ as a measure seems to be somewhere in between the two extremes here. As it's always noted about IQ, we have to remember the term "intelligence" itself is fuzzy, there doesn't and cannot exist any universal definition of it, so we have trouble even grasping what we're measuring and however we define intelligence, it usually ends up hardly even correlating with "success" or "achievements" or anything similar, so firstly let's see IQ just as what it literally is: a score in some kind of game. Furthermore intelligence is extremely complex and multidimensional (there is spatial and visual intelligence, long and short term memory, language skills, social and emotional intelligence etc.), capturing all this with a single number is inevitably a simplification, the score is just a projected shadow of the intelligence with light cast from certain angle. IQ score definitely does say a lot about some specific kind of "mathematical" intelligence, though even if designed to be so, even in this narrow sense it isn't anywhere near a perfect measure -- though a minority, some mathematicians do score low on IQ tests (Richard Feynman, physics Nobel Prize laureate had famously a relatively low score of 125). It's perhaps good to keep the "IQ tests as a game" mindset -- intelligent people will be probably good at it but some won't, performance can be increased by training, there will be narrowly focused autists who excel at the game but are extremely dumb at everything else etc. Having IQ score predict what we normally understand to be "intelligence" is like having height, weight and age predict how good of a soldier someone will be -- there will be some good correlations, but not nearly perfect ones. Some general IQ range will be necessary for certain tasks such as programming, but rather than +5 on an IQ score things such as education and personality traits will play much more important roles in actually achieving something or creating something good; for example curiosity and determination, the habit of thinking about everything in depth, nonconformity, a skeptical mind, all these are much more important than being a human calculator -- remember, the cheapest calculator will beat the smartest man in multiplying numbers, would you say it is more intelligent?
Pseudogenius VS Real Genius
Most people are called a genius nowadays -- any recent so called "genius" (such as Steve Jobs) is in fact most likely of below average IQ; just barely above mediocre idea someone comes up with by chance will be celebrated as that of a genius, real genius ideas will be met with hostility; real genius ideas are too good and too far ahead and unacceptable to normal people. Furthermore success in business requires lack of intelligence so as to be unable to see the consequences of one's actions. Your cat watching you solve Riemann hypothesis will not even know what's happening, to it you are a retard wasting time on sliding a stick over table, on the other hand the cat will judge a monkey capable of opening a can of cat food a genius. Society is composed solely of idiots, they can only see if someone is a tiny bit better at what they do than them, and those they celebrate, if you are light years ahead of them they don't even have the capacity to comprehend how good you are at what you do because they can't even comprehend the thing you do. { The short story Country of the Blind by H. G. Wells is a nice story about this phenomenon of too much competence being seen as a lack of competence, illustrated on a story of a completely healthy man who finds himself in a village of people who are all blind. ~drummyfish } This includes even PhDs and people with several Nobel Prizes, everyone except the few supporters of LRS are just blind idiots playing along with the system, some lucky to succeed in it and some not. This is why shit technology is prospering and LRS is being overlooked. It's just another confirmation our ideas as superior.
Quick IQ Test
Here is a quick but extremely accurate IQ estimate. Let x be the approximate amount to which you agree with LRS, expressed in percents. You IQ (SD 15) is approximately 2 * x. If you can't compute that, subtract 200.
By this test currently the smartest man that ever lived is drummyfish. :'D { On mainstream tests I scored lower than 200. ~drummyfish }
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