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Psychology professor; wrote The Mating Mind, Spent, Mate, & Virtue Signaling. Agnostic centrist into evolution, sex, sentience, freedom & future.

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    1. Geoffrey Miller‏Verified account @primalpoly 3 Jan 2019
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      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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    3. Geoffrey Miller‏Verified account @primalpoly 3 Jan 2019
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      Replying to @bonafidecustom @AnnCoulter @JamesPsychol

      What you said makes no more sense than his argument did. Try to rephrase?

      4 replies 0 retweets 15 likes
    4. Predrag Brajovic‏ @PredragBrajovic 3 Jan 2019
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      Replying to @primalpoly @bonafidecustom and

      Simply: IQ has no property of a measure. And you consider it as a measure. However, no matter how many times someone repeats this it will be of no avail to you and your peers. It is another domain of thinking.

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    5. Geoffrey Miller‏Verified account @primalpoly 3 Jan 2019
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      Replying to @PredragBrajovic @bonafidecustom and

      It's a great measure, it's the best one we have in the behavioral sciences, and it's proven useful in dozens of domains. Sorry you've drunk his kool-aid. If you want to wake up from his cult, read the @StuartJRitchie book.

      9 replies 0 retweets 42 likes
    6. Wall S D‏ @wall_sd 3 Jan 2019
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      Replying to @primalpoly @PredragBrajovic and

      The mathematical argument is that the correlation is only for low IQ, and vanishes for high IQ. But the "average" correlation is like .5. So having high IQ has 0 correlation with, say, high SAT. Therefore, it only works for low IQ. Where correlation is actually 0.8

      3 replies 2 retweets 13 likes
    7. AML‏ @amiguello1 4 Jan 2019
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      This is stupid. The blog post at the top shows plenty of examples where higher IQ matters after 100 IQ. There's even one that shows increased chances of various outcomes at the top 1% of ability. I can't believe people ate up Taleb's made-up graphs.

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    8. Todd Barrett‏ @thepiclord 4 Jan 2019
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      Replying to @amiguello1 @wall_sd and

      Just because having higher IQ 'increases your chances' of certain outcomes does not mean that you can actually predict outcomes from IQ. If I tell you that a particular person has tested at 160 IQ, but no other info, can you tell me how successful they are?

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    9. Todd Barrett‏ @thepiclord 4 Jan 2019
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      Replying to @thepiclord @amiguello1 and

      If there are a lot of high IQ high performers, but also a lot of High IQ low performers, and a LOT of high IQ mediocre performers, then IQ is NOT actually telling you much about an individual person's performance. As in it isn't actually *explaining* their success in full.

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      Geoffrey Miller‏Verified account @primalpoly 4 Jan 2019
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      Replying to @thepiclord @amiguello1 and

      You don't understand how correlation works or why it's useful.

      8:07 AM - 4 Jan 2019
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        1. Todd Barrett‏ @thepiclord 4 Jan 2019
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          Replying to @primalpoly @amiguello1 and

          Nope. Understand both. Also have extreme respect for its LIMITS. Which is really where the debate lies.

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        2. James Thompson‏Verified account @JamesPsychol 5 Jan 2019
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          The limits of the predictive power of a correlation are shown by the coefficient itself. It is the improvement over guessing which gives it its utility. Your examples show that you have not digested that point.

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