RE: Liberalism, atheism, male sexual exclusivity linked to IQ
February 27, 2010 at 8:28 am
(This post was last modified: February 27, 2010 at 8:29 am by Pippy.)
Yeah, good rebut!
"Seriously? Show me the error bars on those measurements. Show me the reliability of IQ as a measure of actual, you know, intelligence. Show me that a 6 point IQ difference matters at all in your interactions with other people, even if it were real. And then to claim that these differences are not only heritable, but evolutionarily significant…jebus, people, you can just glance at it and see that it is complete crap."
IQ is a simple and kind of esoteric test of pattern recognition and memory. I had one, the man asked me what this was a picture of. I said 'A bass clef'. If someone has not yet learned what a bass clef is, are they less mentally able than I? And the killer, yes of course, show me the margin of error in this survey. We need to spend less time being self righteous, telling ourselves how much better we are than others. Atheists are not smarter because they are atheists, and believers are not smarter because they are believers...
"Seriously? Show me the error bars on those measurements. Show me the reliability of IQ as a measure of actual, you know, intelligence. Show me that a 6 point IQ difference matters at all in your interactions with other people, even if it were real. And then to claim that these differences are not only heritable, but evolutionarily significant…jebus, people, you can just glance at it and see that it is complete crap."
IQ is a simple and kind of esoteric test of pattern recognition and memory. I had one, the man asked me what this was a picture of. I said 'A bass clef'. If someone has not yet learned what a bass clef is, are they less mentally able than I? And the killer, yes of course, show me the margin of error in this survey. We need to spend less time being self righteous, telling ourselves how much better we are than others. Atheists are not smarter because they are atheists, and believers are not smarter because they are believers...
