@StuartJRitchie A friend reviewed your book. If you're not bored of responding to reviews, curious what you think:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1806210914 …
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i guess i disagree w author of paper you quoted. "we have multiple faculties" != "statistical independence on tests"
e.g. in fitness example, "faculty physiology" is /true/ (muscles and heart are distinct etc) yet we see pos correlations
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cpu speed and ram size are distinct "faculties," but i'm sure the two are correlated in "population" of existing computers
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That's an argument regarding *why* they correlate. Different to what laymen or educated people expected/expect
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I'm glad if in your bubble(non-pejoratively,as opposed to mine) it doesn't happen, but I've heard several times people...
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expecting that if X person/kid it's bad at maths, then at least he should be good at reading, and/or viceversa
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hey, if you predict IQ from other knowledge about kid and condition on prediction, that's a perfectly good inference :P
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more seriously, i know people argued hard against positive manifold, but do we know they wouldn't do the same for fitness?
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i can easily imagine my alt. universe having a fitness!Gould, et al. are you saying you find that hard to to imagine?
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no, I'm saying it's an important omission because part of the point of the book is to argue against those! and that they…
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Stu makes the point saying "it didn't have to be that way". What I mentioned that maybe some people have memorizer brain...
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vs. arithmetic or verbal brain. Leaving aside quantiative argument (it's 50% and not 8%, more important then, in smarter...
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it's closer to 30%,interesting to find out why, having a general factor makes you wonder what you're measuring when you see…
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correlates with cognitive tests in neuroscience etc. people *honestly* expected mental abilities to be independent, and...
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even after that some people tried to argue g factor away with models and tests for independent mental abilities and failed
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Thurstone said he had 7,Guilford said there were 160. People were arguing against what you claim is obvious *after*discovery
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I agree with the Fox, FWIW.
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we turned to DMs, some disagreement was misundestanding/contexts, still have to read paper he links for rest
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