Taleb dunking on IQ “research” at length. Technically a seriouspost I guess.

  • kuna@awful.systems
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    1 year ago

    QUIZ

    You administer IQ tests to 10K individuals, then give them a “performance test” for anything, any task.

    2000 of them are dead. Dead people score 0 on IQ and 0 on performance. The rest have the IQ uncorrelated to the performance.

    What is the spurious correlation IQ/performance?

    SOLUTION

    37.5%

    EUGENICISTS DESTROYED with FACTS and LOGIC