What you said makes no more sense than his argument did. Try to rephrase?
Nassim Taleb has been criticizing IQ tests lately. In this nice short blog, @JamesPsychol shows that everything Taleb claims is either incoherent, or factually wrong, or pointlessly ad hominem, or already addressed by psychometricians decades ago.http://www.unz.com/jthompson/swanning-about-fooled-by-algebra/ …
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Nice blog post, but the ad hominems against Talib and his readers were unnecessary.
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Maybe try holding everyone to the same standard of what's ad hominem?
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You're being pretty hard on Nassim.
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I thought
@nntaleb was very unpleasant and totally wrong about IQ until his critics leaked that adorable video of him dancing on a rooftop -
yes he does have a great rack
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You forget that IQ was developed as a metric for childhood development and becomes meaningless for subjects over 18.
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Something developed for one use can be applied to other uses. It doesn't carry its origin story around like some kind of primal trauma in a superhero movie bro.
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