It's happening, people linking the Penke, Wicherts… paper on brain size and IQ to say they're NOT correlated.Literally the first hightlight:
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@KirkegaardEmil It is amazing to me how this small but robust correlation is so hard to understand and process for so many people
@SilverVVulpes It's a general problem of understanding imperfect relationships. Counter-examples easy to find, but irrelevant.
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@KirkegaardEmil sure, but this isn't "my cousin is in MENSA and I think he's an idiot". Most people don't go around measuring brain volumes -
@SilverVVulpes I talked with a stewardess who didn't know that men are taller than women. She seemed to think they just vary within group... -
@KirkegaardEmil sure, but maybe she was just silly. i'm seeing people I don't consider stupid(they can manage complex concepts)doing this -
@KirkegaardEmil you know,the typical geeky IFLS types that mock creationism,anti-vax/GMOs etc.but actually manage a couple complex concepts? -
@KirkegaardEmil I saw one not linking the press article but literally the sciencedirect link,claiming that proved correlation = 0.Seriously. -
@KirkegaardEmil sorry if I rant too much, but I just seriously don't get it. It seems so simple.
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