Comment on brains!
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoany article that lists historical figures with even estimates their IQs can be discarded as bullshit.
There are people alive on that list.
IQ is a borderline pseudo science
Dude, you are the one trying to prove it’s legitimacy with normal distributions and confidence levels.
shneancy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
i have indeed noticed there are people alive on that list. But are you going to trust a source that states someone’s IQ to be literally outside of the possible scale when it also just makes shit up a few people down?
i don’t think they’re trying to prove IQ’s legitimacy, just explain the way it’s calculated
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Let’s focus on one individual then with an officially calculated IQ.
medium.com/…/younghoon-kim-the-current-highest-iq…
IQ is not normally distributed. It can be higher than 200. It can’t be negative.
shneancy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
quora.com/Is-it-even-possible-for-a-human-to-have…
read the second answer to that particular quora question, i believe it outlays what the other guy and i mean pretty clearly
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This is repeating the same confusion.
Calculating values from the normal distribution tells you nothing about the tail properties of human intelligence.