"What is astounding is how many people overlooked the contradictions of Gould’s position and accepted the analysis of intelligence research provided by a politically motivated snail expert," writes psychology professor @russwarne.https://quillette.com/2019/03/19/the-mismeasurements-of-stephen-jay-gould/ …
Likewise, astonishing how many people today take seriously the critiques of IQ from a former financial trader turned antifragility cult leader who's never bothered to learn the scientific literature or to argue constructively with the actual experts.
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It's a fair cop.
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We now live in an age where "expert" has grown to mean something bad. Instead of complaining, experts should be smart enough to recognize why that is and adjust accordingly.
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I am open to being swayed back, but I have to say I find Taleb's evidence pretty convincing. Despite his many personal shortcomings, having a math background the data shows pretty strong non-correlation
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Many of the scat plots that show non correlation show selection bias: that is, they plot relationship after selecting for a trait in 1 var.
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Taleb strikes me as largely out for himself--knowledge, correctness, any other ideal comes a distant second. I think he sees his feuding with you guys as an authenticity signal. Harris or Peterson fanboys get a lot of hate, but for me, nothing's more cringy than Taleb's yes men.
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Indeed, likes to talk in highly technical terms so as to convince the gullible and uneducated as to the fact that his argument doesn't actually disprove the contention that high IQ = success, which is not the same as low IQ is a predictor of failure
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