Comments on: FDL Book Salon Welcomes Scott Page: The Difference

By: ThingsComeUndone

ThingsComeUndone — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:18:12 +0000

You do seem familiar with the culture :)

By: ThingsComeUndone

ThingsComeUndone — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:17:04 +0000

Some rich people wish to dominate they do not want challenging wives strong minds and or wills.
Also many women act dumb in highschool because they want dates.
I agree your way is a way for people to move up. But for people concerned with power foremost Authoritarian GOPers they select for looks and if they can obedience less will an intelligence.
Reverse Darwinism is about self selecting downward as well as not letting the elite sink.
I do wonder just how good IQ tests really are if Bush did well a reading disability is hinted at in the Kitty Kelly Biography if anything should that not lower his score?
Or should I suspect cheating was a high IQ score needed to be a pilot?
Or maybe with a draft and everyone taking the test it was fashionable?
Someday I should take an IQ test.

By: bgrothus

bgrothus — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:08:59 +0000

Yes, pretty much the conclusion that we may come to if it is true that “our students is not learning” how to ask or answer questions.

By: chrismealy

chrismealy — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:05:48 +0000

Now I feel like a kid who thinks Van Halen wrote “You Really Got Me.”

By: Cosma Shalizi

Cosma Shalizi — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:04:40 +0000

just come by and hop on an interesting thread.

I will; “long-time lurker, first-time poster”.

By: Cosma Shalizi

Cosma Shalizi — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:03:48 +0000

Certainly when I’ve been on admissions committees I’ve always been tempted to use the “throw all the applications down the stairs and keep the ones which fall face up” method. Even if you are trying to pick “the best”, past a certain point it seems incredible that you’re noticing real differences in quality and not just noise…

An advantage of randomization (from some perspectives) would be that it should make people less competitive.

By: ThingsComeUndone

ThingsComeUndone — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:03:18 +0000

Same with you very good questions and answers just come by and hop on an interesting thread.

By: ThingsComeUndone

ThingsComeUndone — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:02:20 +0000

Great talk please come by anytime

By: libbyliberal

libbyliberal — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:01:17 +0000

I once asked some kids what color noise was. The biggest achiever in the group became near homicidal he was so very confused, not understanding why the other kids got it and were so animated.

By: Cosma Shalizi

Cosma Shalizi — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:00:39 +0000

Thanks, Bev, for doing all of the actual work!