blandfordforever
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- Comment on Justice should be equal 10 hours ago:
When the killing is in self defense or in the defense of many, many victims, is this called justifiable homicide?
- Comment on brains! 3 weeks ago:
Look, I’m saying the same thing that I also found on Wikipedia. You just put the scores in order and then you fit them to a normal curve. This is what it means to scale them ordinally and then fit this to a normal distribution.
Its clear that we aren’t going to agree on this.
You seem to incorrectly think that an IQ of 0 would mean zero intelligence when I have explained exactly what an IQ of zero would mean.
- Comment on brains! 3 weeks ago:
I’m not saying intelligence is a normal distribution. I’m saying that IQ scores are a normal distribution.
The metric, IQ is a normal distribution because that’s how the metric is defined.
I’d like to hear your explanation how an IQ of above 200 is possible and what that would actually mean.
Its only possible if there are about 10x more humans. With a population of around 80 billion, the smartest one person would have a z score of roughly 6.6 and an IQ of roughly 200. This is calculated from a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15, which is how it’s defined.
- Comment on brains! 3 weeks ago:
I think the confusion is that IQ is not an objective measurement. It’s subjective.
Its not like say, height, where you can have a normal distribution and then a statistical outlier.
The IQ point isnt a constant, tangeable unit of measure, like an inch. Intelligence isn’t something you can put a ruler up to and say, oh that’s weird, this person with an iq of 300 is a statistical outlier.
IQ is defined statistically. You use some method of claiming that each person has a certain ranking of intelligence. Then you use a defined mean and SD to determine what IQ value that corresponds to, in the context of everyone else in the population.
- Comment on brains! 4 weeks ago:
You provided a link to reader’s digest. It’s not the most credible reference.
A negative IQ score and an IQ score above 200 would be possible with larger populations.
- Comment on brains! 4 weeks ago:
I have to disagree.
IQ as a measure of intelligence doesn’t work that way. The number can’t just get higher and higher because a person is really smart. A supreme, godlike intelligence doesn’t have an IQ of say, a million. IQ has a statistical definition.
If there are about 8 billion humans, then 1 of them is “the smartest” in some way. 1/8,000,000,000 is 1.2x10^-10, this has a z score of 6.33.
The current smartest person will have an IQ of (6.33x15)+100=195. No one has an IQ of 200. This isn’t because a person can’t be any smarter, it’s because this is how IQ is defined. If a pure, perfect, godlike intelligence exists in our current human population, their IQ is 195.
- Comment on brains! 4 weeks ago:
I understand that you’re saying there are more incredible geniuses than full on retards.
However, IQ scores are a normal distribution with an arbitrarily defined mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15.
So, IQ scores of 0 or 200 are both 6.6 standard deviations from the mean. If IQ is truly a normal distribution, you’d expect the number of people with IQ scores <= 0 and the number with scores >= 200, to be exactly the same, simply because this is how the scores are defined.
If you try to look up what proportion of the population falls outside 6.6 standard deviations, the z-tables don’t go out this far. It’s essentially 0%
- Comment on brains! 4 weeks ago:
Contrary to popular belief, we’re all profoundly stupid. Even the smartest among us spend enormous effort in their struggle to comprehend our surroundings.
- Comment on Haha SO TRUE! 4 weeks ago:
OK, I thought this was a study that was actually performed (and just happened to be written by a snarky author) until I got to the part about the effort scores. This is some high quality absurdity.
- Comment on Tiny pp 1 month ago:
Pretty sure you be able to cite a source for that.
- Comment on Anon enjoys life 2 months ago:
Oh, maybe I wanted to use ==
- Comment on Anon enjoys life 2 months ago:
That’s that evolutionary programming kicking in, convincing you to slave away with the goal of increasing the survival rate of your offspring.
I’m not saying it’s good or bad. I’m just saying that your’e a machine and this affects your program:
If(havebaby=true){parentalmotivation++}
- Comment on Home Depot 2 months ago:
in my experience, it’s better to fuck in a van.
- Comment on This might also apply to conferences. 2 months ago:
Weiner! Butthole! Poop!
It is fun to say bad words, isn’t it. Makes you look cool, too!
- Comment on How do I Graphene OS? 3 months ago:
I don’t have any complaints about the performance of graphene on my pixel 7a but I don’t do much outside of texting and browsing webpages. I also get about 3 days of battery life out of a charge.
- Comment on How do I Graphene OS? 3 months ago:
I found the instructions on the website to be completely adequate.
You’ll still be able to use Google Play and the apps found there, if you want to. I’d heard of people having trouble with banking apps. I access my bank using their website, not an app.
Just understand going into this that the priority is privacy, not compatibility. Maybe keep your old phone around in case there’s some must-have app that doesn’t work but you need occasionally.
- Comment on How do I Graphene OS? 3 months ago:
I’m not a person who had previously done much messing around with their phone but I have installed Linux on several computers. I put graphene on my phone nearly a year ago and I recall the process being fairly straightforward. I think I just followed the instructions on their website.
Maybe it’s not an “any idiot could do it” level of user friendliness but the examples you’ve listed as stumbling blocks aren’t exactly brain-busters.
- Comment on Disney creates best argument for piracy in a century. 4 months ago:
Pirating their content doesn’t afford you legal protections but agreeing to their license agreements could definitely turn out to have been a big mistake.
If you’re just itching for that content, pick your poison.
- Comment on Peugeot Rifter 4 months ago:
It looks like a Ford transit van had sex with a Honda element. I like it.
- Comment on Anon rides a bike 4 months ago:
Taking this further, that $4.60 of gas will power the most efficient car for about an hour.
That $12 of rice is enough energy for you to power your bike for like 50 hours.
Conclusion: Just drive your car. Do you really want to waste 49 hours on your bike? /s
- Comment on Found These on Etsy 4 months ago:
I’m surprised I haven’t seen any versions of this involving Rick James.
- Comment on Making healthier choices 6 months ago:
I think he’s saying that you can measure how much energy the food contains but not how much energy each individual will successfully absorb and metabolize.
- Comment on so dreamy wow 6 months ago:
Babies are heavy. Its all about more weight and fewer reps.
- Comment on Lots of times the restaurants won't even have milk 7 months ago:
The concept of being fed up with water is so alien to me. Water doesn’t have some powerful, delicious flavor but the sensation of water is almost one of satisfying refreshment.
How can you be irritated by water? “Damn it, this is only exactly what my body needs!”
- Comment on Life progression 7 months ago:
I blame stress/responsibility/burnout. Kids/teens generally have more time to enjoy learning.
- Comment on Checkmate, science 7 months ago:
Has anyone tried making the fan blades out of magnets?
- Comment on *sweating intensifies* 8 months ago:
Just tell us if you people click the sliver box or not!
- Comment on Long time 8 months ago:
Do one with the dick that curiosity drew on Mars
- Comment on Never forget where you came from. 9 months ago:
Dat butt doe
- Comment on TikToker Exposes Truth Behind 'Garbage Feeding' - pigs in dozens of states are legally fed plastic garbage, ground up and added to their feed 11 months ago:
Thank you. The motivation for them to do this is clear, with this context. Horrible.