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Epa095yesterday at 10:16 PM2 repliesview on HN

Why? Draw the line backwards, and in a couple of decades you are down at 0 IQ. That's clearly absurd, you can't draw any conclusions of IQ significantly before 1950 from how the line behaves after 1950.


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dzongatoday at 1:54 PM

the 'IQ' people conveniently ignore how the IQ test is such a poor measure for intelligence & resourcefulness

cluckindanyesterday at 11:25 PM

And that’s because IQ is a statistical distribution, not an absolute measurement of intelligence.

If everyone suddenly gets twice as smart as before, nobody’s IQ changes.

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