and the philosophical traditions of Alternative Earth that fitness factors are independent
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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
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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(Gould, Gardner, Fodor etc.) have more of an impact than you think. AND that it isn't as obvious g factor is a given.
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OK, i think we are evaluating the book on different standards. i fully admit i am not the target audience.
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you're probably the target audience of the "arcane and nerdy disagreements" Stu decided to skip over in his basic into :)
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ah! but my exact complaint is that one /can't/ skip over those disagreements in the way he does (cf my thread w him)
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so my disagreements with you are a) What I said about what people expected, including making analogy unfair by lack of it
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fact that you take into account IQ from other knowledge is part of the point.Not necessarily common.And simply knowing...
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kid A scores higher than B in X cogtest, you should bet on A for another one every time.Don't think that's obvious for ppl
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what you mention with computer example is reason we find g (Stu mentions Thurstone and Guilford as examples in that debate)
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