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“They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns)”
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“Hugh consoled me, saying, "Don't let it get to you. There are plenty of things you're good at."
When asked for some examples, he listed vacuuming and naming stuffed animals. He says he can probably come up with a few more, but he'll need some time to think.”
― Me Talk Pretty One Day
When asked for some examples, he listed vacuuming and naming stuffed animals. He says he can probably come up with a few more, but he'll need some time to think.”
― Me Talk Pretty One Day

“Are IQ tests sacrosanct? Or do you think there is only one kind of intelligence? What about creativity? Or intuitive or emotional intelligence?”
― The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit
― The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit

“English is a language, not a measure of intelligence. (Howard Gardner would argue the otherwise.) Filipino/Tagalog is a language, not a measure of patriotism.”
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“Everybody knows that it makes no sense that you send a kid to the emergency room for a treatable illness like asthma. They end up taking up a hospital bed. It costs when, if you, they just gave, you gave, treatment early, and they got some treatment, and uhhh a breathalyzer, or uhh, an inhalator, not a breathalyzer...”
― Barack Obama in His Own Words
― Barack Obama in His Own Words
“NBC News
"Lead from gasoline blunted the IQ of about half the U.S. population, study says" by Elizabeth Chuck
鈥n a population basis, shifting the average IQ down even a small amount could have large consequences, said Sung Kyun Park, an associate professor of epidemiology and environmental health sciences at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. The entire bell curve shifts, he explained, with more of the population at what was once the extreme low end of IQ scores.”
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"Lead from gasoline blunted the IQ of about half the U.S. population, study says" by Elizabeth Chuck
鈥n a population basis, shifting the average IQ down even a small amount could have large consequences, said Sung Kyun Park, an associate professor of epidemiology and environmental health sciences at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. The entire bell curve shifts, he explained, with more of the population at what was once the extreme low end of IQ scores.”
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“If the reader does not like some of the facts that emerge, I hope against hope that he will not blame me for their existence.”
― The IQ argument: race, intelligence, and education,
― The IQ argument: race, intelligence, and education,

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We can imagine no recommendation for using the government to manipulate fertility that does not have dangers. But this highlights the problem: The United States already has policies that inadvertently social-engineer who has babies, and it is encouraging the wrong women. If the United States did as much to encourage high-IQ women to have babies as it now does to encourage low-IQ women, it would rightly be described as engaging in aggressive manipulation of fertility. The technically precise description of America's fertility policy is that it subsidizes births among poor women, who are also disproportionately at the low end of the intelligence distribution. We urge generally that these policies, represented by the extensive network of cash and services for low-income women who have babies, be ended.”
― The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life
We can imagine no recommendation for using the government to manipulate fertility that does not have dangers. But this highlights the problem: The United States already has policies that inadvertently social-engineer who has babies, and it is encouraging the wrong women. If the United States did as much to encourage high-IQ women to have babies as it now does to encourage low-IQ women, it would rightly be described as engaging in aggressive manipulation of fertility. The technically precise description of America's fertility policy is that it subsidizes births among poor women, who are also disproportionately at the low end of the intelligence distribution. We urge generally that these policies, represented by the extensive network of cash and services for low-income women who have babies, be ended.”
― The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life
“When studies using mental ability test scores from children are considered, the heritability of mental ability is typically found to be about .40, and the effect of the common or shared environment is found to be almost as strong, about .35. In contrast, when studies using mental ability test scores from adults (or older adolescents) are considered, estimates of the heritability of mental ability are much higher, typically about .65, whereas estimates of common or shared environment effects are much lower, probably under .20 (see review by Haworth et al., 2010). These findings indicate that differences among children in their levels of mental ability are attributable almost as much to their common environment鈥攖hat is, to features of their family or household circumstances鈥攁s to their genetic inheritances. However, the findings also suggest that as children grow up, the differences among them in mental ability become less strongly related to the features of their common environments, and more strongly related to their genetic inheritances. In other words, the effect on one's mental ability of the family or household in which one is reared tends to become less important as one grows up, so that by adulthood one's level of mental ability is heavily dependent on one's genetic characteristics. It is as if one's level of mental ability鈥攔elative to that of other persons of the same age鈥攃an be raised (or lowered) during childhood by a particularly good (or poor) home environment, but then gradually returns to the level that one's genes tend to produce.”
― Individual Differences and Personality
― Individual Differences and Personality

“If being forgetful is a sign of high intelligence, then people with Alzheimer's are like Isaac Whatshisname. You know, that one guy who did that one thing. Or was it two things?”
― 94,000 Wasps in a Trench Coat
― 94,000 Wasps in a Trench Coat

“I think I have a lot going for me as far as dating. I have a high IQ, I'm 6'3", and on May 23rd I'll be Forklift Certified. That's right, I'll soon be qualified to transport stacked pallets, and I know that's the first thing women look for in a potential partner.”
― Eggs, they鈥檙e not just for breakfast
― Eggs, they鈥檙e not just for breakfast

“Mind Quotient (Sonnet 1209)
Throw away all stupidity of IQ and EQ,
They are but stain upon mind's honor.
To quantify intelligence is stupid,
To quantify emotion is even stupider.
When the feeble psyche seeks reassurance,
It craves comfort in all sorts of nonsense.
Most times it resorts to the supernatural,
Exhausting that it resorts to pseudoscience.
It is no mark of mental progress to replace
supernatural bubble with pseudoscience bubble.
No matter how they try to sell you security,
Know that, human potential is unquantifiable.
IQ is no measure of intelligence,
EQ is no measure of emotion either.
But craving for IQ and EQ is symptom
of a shallow and feeble character.”
― Rowdy Scientist: Handbook of Humanitarian Science
Throw away all stupidity of IQ and EQ,
They are but stain upon mind's honor.
To quantify intelligence is stupid,
To quantify emotion is even stupider.
When the feeble psyche seeks reassurance,
It craves comfort in all sorts of nonsense.
Most times it resorts to the supernatural,
Exhausting that it resorts to pseudoscience.
It is no mark of mental progress to replace
supernatural bubble with pseudoscience bubble.
No matter how they try to sell you security,
Know that, human potential is unquantifiable.
IQ is no measure of intelligence,
EQ is no measure of emotion either.
But craving for IQ and EQ is symptom
of a shallow and feeble character.”
― Rowdy Scientist: Handbook of Humanitarian Science

“Instead of 200, what if man's pre-flood IQ was a thousand? Everyone was smarter, bigger, and lived longer. But what if animals had IQs of a hundred? Maybe interspecies communication was the norm, unlike now where only weirdos like me talk to cats, dogs, and ducks.”
― Powdered Saxophone Music
― Powdered Saxophone Music
“Twin studies of adult individuals have found a heritability of IQ between 57% and 73%[6] with the most recent studies showing heritability for IQ as high as 80%.[7] IQ goes from being weakly correlated with genetics, for children, to being strongly correlated with genetics for late teens and adults. The heritability of IQ increases with age and reaches an asymptote at 18鈥�20 years of age and continues at that level well into adulthood. This phenomenon is known as the Wilson Effect”
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“协褌懈屑 芯锌褉械写械谢械薪懈褟屑, 芯写薪邪泻芯, 薪械 褏胁邪褌邪械褌 芯写薪芯谐芯 胁邪卸薪芯谐芯 褋胁芯泄褋褌胁邪 鈥� 泻芯谢懈褔械褋褌胁械薪薪芯谐芯 懈蟹屑械褉械薪懈褟 褍褉芯胁薪褟 懈薪褌械谢谢械泻褌邪. 袩芯薪褟褌薪芯 胁械写褜, 褔褌芯 褍褉芯胁薪懈 懈薪褌械谢谢械泻褌邪 褔械谢芯胁械泻邪 懈 褕懈屑锌邪薪蟹械 褋褍褖械褋褌胁械薪薪芯 褉邪蟹谢懈褔邪褞褌褋褟, 写邪 懈 谢褞写懈, 泻邪泻 懈蟹胁械褋褌薪芯, 芯斜谢邪写邪褞褌 褉邪蟹薪褘屑懈 IQ. 袙 褝褌芯泄 褋胁褟蟹懈 芯褔械薪褜 懈薪褌械褉械褋薪芯 褉械褕械薪懈械, 锌褉械写谢芯卸械薪薪芯械 肖褉邪薪褋褍邪 楔芯谢谢械 懈蟹 Google, 褋芯蟹写邪褌械谢械屑 懈蟹胁械褋褌薪芯泄 斜懈斜谢懈芯褌械泻懈 Keras. 袠薪褌械谢谢械泻褌 芯薪 芯锌褉械写械谢褟械褌 泻邪泻 褋锌芯褋芯斜薪芯褋褌褜 泻 褝褎褎械泻褌懈胁薪芯屑褍 芯斜褍褔械薪懈褞
懈 锌褉械写谢邪谐邪械褌 懈蟹屑械褉褟褌褜 械谐芯 泻邪泻 袣袩袛 泻芯薪胁械褉褋懈懈 锌芯谢褍褔邪械屑芯泄 懈蟹 胁薪械褕薪械泄 褋褉械写褘 懈薪褎芯褉屑邪褑懈懈 胁 蟹薪邪薪懈褟 芯 褌芯屑, 泻邪泻 写芯褋褌懈谐邪褌褜 褋胁芯懈褏 褑械谢械泄. 芦Intelligence is the rate at which a learner turns its experience and priors into new skills at valuable tasks that involve uncertainty and adaptation禄
(褋屑.: Chollet F. On the Measure of Intelligence. arXiv preprint arXiv:).”
― 袙芯褋锌懈褌邪薪懈械 屑邪褕懈薪. 袧芯胁邪褟 懈褋褌芯褉懈褟 褉邪蟹褍屑邪
懈 锌褉械写谢邪谐邪械褌 懈蟹屑械褉褟褌褜 械谐芯 泻邪泻 袣袩袛 泻芯薪胁械褉褋懈懈 锌芯谢褍褔邪械屑芯泄 懈蟹 胁薪械褕薪械泄 褋褉械写褘 懈薪褎芯褉屑邪褑懈懈 胁 蟹薪邪薪懈褟 芯 褌芯屑, 泻邪泻 写芯褋褌懈谐邪褌褜 褋胁芯懈褏 褑械谢械泄. 芦Intelligence is the rate at which a learner turns its experience and priors into new skills at valuable tasks that involve uncertainty and adaptation禄
(褋屑.: Chollet F. On the Measure of Intelligence. arXiv preprint arXiv:).”
― 袙芯褋锌懈褌邪薪懈械 屑邪褕懈薪. 袧芯胁邪褟 懈褋褌芯褉懈褟 褉邪蟹褍屑邪

“We cannot be too intelligent. The person or people reading what we have written, or listening to us, can be too stupid.”
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“Someone who herds reindeer in Finland asked if medieval people had IQs below zero. I replied that such a thing made no sense, but it was quite possible to have negative critical acumen, witness the rise of postmodernism.”
― What Is Intelligence?: Beyond the Flynn Effect
― What Is Intelligence?: Beyond the Flynn Effect

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Can the United States really have been experiencing falling IQ? Would not we be able to see the consequences? Maybe we have. In 1938, Raymond Cattell, one of the most illustrious psychometricians of his age, wrote an article for the British Journal of Psychology, 鈥淪ome Changes in Social life in a Community with a Falling Intelligence Quotient.鈥� The article was eerily prescient.
In education, Cattell predicted that academic standards would fall and the curriculum would shift toward less abstract subjects. He foresaw an increase in 鈥渄elinquency against society鈥� 鈥� crime and willful dependency (for example, having a child without being able to care for it) would be in this category. He was not sure whether this would lead to a slackening of moral codes or attempts at tighter government control over individual behavior. The response could go either way, he wrote.
He predicted that a complex modern society with a falling IQ would have to compensate people at the low end of IQ by a 鈥渟ystematized relaxation of moral standards, permitting more direct instinctive satisfactions.鈥� In particular, he saw an expanding role for what he called 鈥渇antasy compensations.鈥� He saw the novel and the cinema as the contemporary means for satisfying it, but he added that 鈥渨e have probably not seen the end of its development or begun to appreciate its damaging effects on 鈥榬eality thinking鈥� habits concerned in other spheres of life鈥� 鈥� a prediction hard to fault as one watches the use of TV in today鈥檚 world and imagines the use of virtual reality helmets in tomorrow鈥檚.
Turning to political and social life, he expected to see 鈥渢he development of a larger 鈥榮ocial problem group鈥� or at least of a group supported, supervised and patronized by extensive state social welfare work.鈥� This, he foresaw, would be 鈥渋nimical to that human solidarity and potential equality of prestige which is essential to democracy.”
― The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life
Can the United States really have been experiencing falling IQ? Would not we be able to see the consequences? Maybe we have. In 1938, Raymond Cattell, one of the most illustrious psychometricians of his age, wrote an article for the British Journal of Psychology, 鈥淪ome Changes in Social life in a Community with a Falling Intelligence Quotient.鈥� The article was eerily prescient.
In education, Cattell predicted that academic standards would fall and the curriculum would shift toward less abstract subjects. He foresaw an increase in 鈥渄elinquency against society鈥� 鈥� crime and willful dependency (for example, having a child without being able to care for it) would be in this category. He was not sure whether this would lead to a slackening of moral codes or attempts at tighter government control over individual behavior. The response could go either way, he wrote.
He predicted that a complex modern society with a falling IQ would have to compensate people at the low end of IQ by a 鈥渟ystematized relaxation of moral standards, permitting more direct instinctive satisfactions.鈥� In particular, he saw an expanding role for what he called 鈥渇antasy compensations.鈥� He saw the novel and the cinema as the contemporary means for satisfying it, but he added that 鈥渨e have probably not seen the end of its development or begun to appreciate its damaging effects on 鈥榬eality thinking鈥� habits concerned in other spheres of life鈥� 鈥� a prediction hard to fault as one watches the use of TV in today鈥檚 world and imagines the use of virtual reality helmets in tomorrow鈥檚.
Turning to political and social life, he expected to see 鈥渢he development of a larger 鈥榮ocial problem group鈥� or at least of a group supported, supervised and patronized by extensive state social welfare work.鈥� This, he foresaw, would be 鈥渋nimical to that human solidarity and potential equality of prestige which is essential to democracy.”
― The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life
“Another socially important variable associated with mental ability is that of marriage, or more specifically that of who marries whom. A consistent finding in several studies of the characteristics of spouses is that there is a tendency for spouses to be similar in some鈥攂ut not all鈥攁spects of mental ability; in other words, some aspects of mental ability do show substantial 鈥渁ssortative mating.鈥�
For example, in a study of married couples, Watson et al. (2004) examined spouses' scores on two mental ability tasks鈥攁 vocabulary test and a matrix reasoning test. Interestingly, even though vocabulary and matrix reasoning tend to be correlated with each other (both are strongly g-loaded tests), they revealed quite different results when correlations between spouses were considered. On the one hand, wives' and husbands' levels of vocabulary showed a fairly strong positive correlation, about .45.
But, on the other hand, wives' and husbands' levels of matrix reasoning were correlated only about .10. This result is consistent with previous findings, in which spouses have tended to show quite similar levels of verbal comprehension ability, but no particular similarity in mathematical reasoning ability (e.g., Botwin, Buss, & Shackelford, 1997).
Why should it be the case that spouses tend to be similar in verbal abilities, but not so similar in (equally g-loaded) nonverbal reasoning abilities? One likely explanation鈥攁s you might guess鈥攊s that two people will tend to have more rewarding conversations if they have similar levels of verbal ability, but that similar levels of nonverbal or mathematical reasoning ability are unlikely to contribute in an important way to any aspect of relationship quality.”
― Individual Differences and Personality
For example, in a study of married couples, Watson et al. (2004) examined spouses' scores on two mental ability tasks鈥攁 vocabulary test and a matrix reasoning test. Interestingly, even though vocabulary and matrix reasoning tend to be correlated with each other (both are strongly g-loaded tests), they revealed quite different results when correlations between spouses were considered. On the one hand, wives' and husbands' levels of vocabulary showed a fairly strong positive correlation, about .45.
But, on the other hand, wives' and husbands' levels of matrix reasoning were correlated only about .10. This result is consistent with previous findings, in which spouses have tended to show quite similar levels of verbal comprehension ability, but no particular similarity in mathematical reasoning ability (e.g., Botwin, Buss, & Shackelford, 1997).
Why should it be the case that spouses tend to be similar in verbal abilities, but not so similar in (equally g-loaded) nonverbal reasoning abilities? One likely explanation鈥攁s you might guess鈥攊s that two people will tend to have more rewarding conversations if they have similar levels of verbal ability, but that similar levels of nonverbal or mathematical reasoning ability are unlikely to contribute in an important way to any aspect of relationship quality.”
― Individual Differences and Personality
“When studies using mental ability test scores from children are considered, the heritability of mental ability is typically found to be about .40, and the effect of the common or shared environment is found to be almost as strong, about .35. In contrast, when studies using mental ability test scores from adults (or older adolescents) are considered, estimates of the heritability of mental ability are much higher, typically about .65, whereas estimates of common or shared environment effects are much lower, probably under .20 (see review by Haworth et al., 2010). These findings indicate that differences among children in their levels of mental ability are attributable almost as much to their common environment鈥攖hat is, to features of their family or household circumstances鈥攁s to their genetic inheritances. However, the findings also suggest that as children grow up, the differences among them in mental ability become less strongly related to the features of their common environments, and more strongly related to their genetic inheritances. In other words, the effect on one's mental ability of the family or household in which one is reared tends to become less important as one grows up, so that by adulthood one's level of mental ability is heavily dependent on one's genetic characteristics. It is as if one's level of mental ability鈥攔elative to that of other persons of the same age鈥攃an be raised (or lowered) during childhood by a particularly good (or poor) home environment, but then gradually returns to the level that one's genes tend to produce.
The aforementioned findings are based mainly on samples of participants who belong to the broad middle class of modern Western countries. There is some evidence, though, that the heritability of IQ tends to be somewhat lower (at least until young adulthood, and perhaps beyond) when studies are conducted using participants of less enriched environments, such as those in economically underdeveloped countries or in the lowest socioeconomic classes of some Western countries (see review by Nisbett et al., 2012). One recent study (Tucker-Drob & Bates, 2016) found that in the United States, additive genetic influences had a weaker influence on IQ among persons of low socioeconomic status than among persons of high socioeconomic status. (Interestingly, Tucker-Drob and Bates did not find this effect in western European countries or in Australia, where socioeconomic status differences tend to be smaller.) The above findings suggest that whenever the heritability of IQ is discussed, it is important to consider the ages of the persons being examined as well as their socioeconomic status and their country.”
― Individual Differences and Personality
The aforementioned findings are based mainly on samples of participants who belong to the broad middle class of modern Western countries. There is some evidence, though, that the heritability of IQ tends to be somewhat lower (at least until young adulthood, and perhaps beyond) when studies are conducted using participants of less enriched environments, such as those in economically underdeveloped countries or in the lowest socioeconomic classes of some Western countries (see review by Nisbett et al., 2012). One recent study (Tucker-Drob & Bates, 2016) found that in the United States, additive genetic influences had a weaker influence on IQ among persons of low socioeconomic status than among persons of high socioeconomic status. (Interestingly, Tucker-Drob and Bates did not find this effect in western European countries or in Australia, where socioeconomic status differences tend to be smaller.) The above findings suggest that whenever the heritability of IQ is discussed, it is important to consider the ages of the persons being examined as well as their socioeconomic status and their country.”
― Individual Differences and Personality

“IQ is no measure of intelligence,
EQ is no measure of emotion either.
But craving for IQ and EQ is symptom
of a shallow and feeble character.”
― Rowdy Scientist: Handbook of Humanitarian Science
EQ is no measure of emotion either.
But craving for IQ and EQ is symptom
of a shallow and feeble character.”
― Rowdy Scientist: Handbook of Humanitarian Science

“Mensa is a club restricted to high-IQ individuals, and one must pass IQ-type tests to be admitted. Yet 44 percent of the members of this club believed in astrology, 51 percent believed in biorhythms, and 56 percent believed in the existence of extraterrestrial visitors鈥攁ll beliefs for which there is not a shred of evidence.”
― What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought
― What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought

“With time, movement and experience, things get smarter.”
― The Word of Bob: an AI Minecraft Villager
― The Word of Bob: an AI Minecraft Villager

“I just started taking IQ Vitamins, and I can already feel myself developing a Super Brain. Soon I鈥檒l be able to communicate with cats and ducks.”
― A Memoir of Memories and Memes
― A Memoir of Memories and Memes

“I self-tested myself, and my IQ is 33. That means I鈥檓 entitled to special treatment, I can get away with saying things that a normal person couldn鈥檛, and I鈥檓 allowed to have public outbursts and tantrums and people have to tolerate it and even compliment me to calm me down.”
― A Memoir of Memories and Memes
― A Memoir of Memories and Memes

“Noting that the rise in IQ scores 鈥渋s concentrated in nonverbal IQ performance,鈥� which is 鈥渕ainly tested through visual tests,鈥� she attributed the Flynn effect to an array of factors, from urbanization to the growth in 鈥渟ocietal complexity,鈥� all of which 鈥渁re part and parcel of the worldwide movement from smaller-scale, low-tech communities with subsistence economies toward large-scale, high-tech societies with commercial economies.鈥� We鈥檙e not smarter than our parents or our parents鈥� parents. We鈥檙e just smart in different ways.”
― The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
― The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
“No one person is inherently more intelligent than another; we all simply excel in different areas of intelligence.”
― Dark Rooms
― Dark Rooms
“INTELLIGENCE, n. The ability to think, learn, understand, reflect, adapt,
appreciate, and do much more. In psychology, it鈥檚 associated with two primary
ideas: common sense (a.k.a. social intelligence) and IQ, or g, for general
intelligence. In school, both are seldom taught. The first, because that would
require projects and teamwork; the latter because it鈥檚 a trait that no one really
knows how to increase.”
― The Unschooler's Educational Dictionary: A Lighthearted Introduction to the World of Education and Curriculum-Free Alternatives
appreciate, and do much more. In psychology, it鈥檚 associated with two primary
ideas: common sense (a.k.a. social intelligence) and IQ, or g, for general
intelligence. In school, both are seldom taught. The first, because that would
require projects and teamwork; the latter because it鈥檚 a trait that no one really
knows how to increase.”
― The Unschooler's Educational Dictionary: A Lighthearted Introduction to the World of Education and Curriculum-Free Alternatives
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