Capitalism wants you to feel bad about yourself

My head is loud with too many thoughts and thc makes it a bit quieter

I prefer thc to caffeine

And I’m not saying that IQ tells you if someone is more intelligent than someone else. (it doesn’t)

You’re displaying an ignorance on how science works. Repeatability and predictions are massively important to the scientific method.

There are definitely many limitations to what IQ can tell us, and it absolutely cannot be used as a universal scale, but it is repeatable and has generated accurate predictions which is what science is all about. Not as accurate as predictions using temperature, but still useful. Including studies like this demonstrating that what we think of as intelligence is more nurture than nature. We can take the information with a grain of salt, it’s still information.

I’m also arguing for that being wrong. I also said that it’s more complex than temperature and didn’t say it was an exact measurement (temperature isn’t either, just closer). The example with the temperature goes like this.

Pseudoscience says that 90 IQ is stupid and water at -20°C is frozen. Science says those numbers don’t make sense out of context. -20 is a gas when there’s less pressure and 90 is extraordinary when the person previously scored 50.

To resay my final point from the previous comment. If we want to study cognitive ability, we need to measure it. IQ is a messy and imprecise measurement, but it’s better than nothing.

You’re still talking like IQ is this absolute immutable number that a person possesses, which is how it’s been used but not how it should be. It only makes sense as a comparison score. It’s like how we measure temperature. We define Celsius as water freezing at 0° and boiling at 100°, but that’s only true at 1 earth atmosphere of pressure. Using the same scale, the boiling point of water on Pluto is -75°

Now measuring cognition is way more complex than measuring how wiggly atoms are (which is actually also very complex), but you need to have some kind of measurement to be able to compare things and be able to say anything of scientific consequence. Not saying it’s a great measurement, but we don’t have many to choose from and it does tell us something. Context can absolutely change scores and the goal should be to control for that as much as possible.

I feel like it’s pretty blatantly saying that it’s not genetic, how would you twist it the other way?

This seems like an appropriate use of it. Not as a general intelligence score (which is useless), but as a way to compare the environmental factors between 2 individuals.

IQ is not a completely useless metric. Yes it has its flaws and definitely shouldn’t be used as an absolute scale of intelligence, but it can be useful to compare individuals and trends if used in the right context. We don’t have many ways to test cognitive function.

That’s true when talking about trials in general. This chart is more about the police accurately nabbing criminals. Hypothetically, if they were perfect at their job (find the person responsible, sufficient evidence, no corruption) wouldn’t we expect close to 100%?

Though this discussion doesn’t matter that much to me anyway. I prefer the argument that the linked video lays out. TL;DW crime and policing don’t exist in a communist society, harm reduction and justice should have much more nuance than is currently given. (the latter part being similar to your point)

That still implies that police suck at their job (not that I want them to be good at it). But also it’s at the other end of the spectrum, should we be expecting the conviction rate to be around 50%?

Care to elaborate?

This was what the video used and the research paper this is from is from 2020. I did a brief search to find something more recent but wasn’t able to find anything that gave these statistics. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was an effort to look away from these figures because they’re so damning. If you can find better please post an update.

Is this going to kill Washburn?

That’s by design

And seniors

Truman Show has the same message as The World’s End

The fair and balanced side of me likes Conservative News Review. Also opens up the idea of giving articles rankings. Something like start with 10 points for accurate information and honest framing. -1 point for misleading, -2 for false, -5 for actual disinformation that kind of thing