In his excellent book A Question of Intelligence: The IQ Debate in America, former Fortune magazine editor Daniel Seligman describes what it’s like to take the WAIS-R IQ test. One page 7, he describes taking the Arithmetic subtest, a measure of working memory and numerical skill:
The subtest called Aritmetic proved to be a breeze and morale restorer. The questions were what we used to call “problems” in the sixth grade, generally taking this form: If a car averages forty miles and hour, how far will it average in forty-five minutes?…
Unfortunately Seligman does not give enough specifics for me to unearth his score on this subtest, so it will be excluded when I calculate his IQ. He goes on to write:
By this time–we were now a little past the one-hour mark –a pattern had emerged. Although I was not being told my scores on the subtests, it was fairly obvious that I was doing well on the verbal-arithmetic front, not so well when confronted with spatial visual problems.
Pumpkin Person 
peepee is a MORON.
1. being a sociopath is “advantageous”.
2. smart people are able to gain advantage.
ERGO:
smart people are sociopaths.
or…smart people are like…
bonhoeffer and socrates.
Be of good hope in the face of death. Believe in this one truth for certain, that no evil can befall a good man either in life or death, and that his fate is not a matter of indifference to the gods.
when the roaches have taken over, does the smart one try to emulate the roaches?
or does he move to where there are no roaches?
and if there be no such place…by opposing…end it?
NO!
Adaptation = higher fertility
Adaptation = higher fertility
Ultimately the entire organism evolves to adapt to its genetic “goals”, but intelligence is only one part of that broader adaptive system. Intelligence is just the part that COGNITIVELY adapts only the BEHAVIOR of the organism to his individual goals. However when one’s individual goals conflict with one’s genetic “goals”, even highly intelligent organisms will be evolutionarily maladaptive, despite being extremely cognitively adaptive.
Because it’s not the intelligence that’s maladaptive, it’s the goals the intelligence is being used to reach, and they’re dictated by physical and emotional systems, not cognitive ones.
(Ultimately the entire organism evolves to adapt to its genetic “goals”, but intelligence is only one part of that broader adaptive system. Intelligence is just the part that COGNITIVELY adapts only the BEHAVIOR of the organism to his individual goals. However when one’s individual goals conflict with one’s genetic “goals”, even highly intelligent organisms will be evolutionarily maladaptive, despite being extremely cognitively adaptive.
Because it’s not the intelligence that’s maladaptive, it’s the goals the intelligence is being used to reach, and they’re dictated by physical and emotional systems, not cognitive ones.)
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Adaptation = higher fertility
Adaptation = higher fertility
We’re using the word in two different contexts.
Historically intelligence did help us to adapt to our genetic “goals” like reproduction and tribal warfare (today not as much), but in a more general context, intelligence is the mental ability to adapt to whatever goal an organism might have.
the answer is of course that MEN and the SMART are like bonhoeffer and socrates and
NOT LIKE PEEPEE…
NOT LIKE COCKROACHES.
PEE HAS YET TO GRASP THAT BEING
STUPID
CAN BE AND IS…
ADAPTIVE.
RIP TORN, A FAMOUS DRUNK, WHO BEAT UP THE JEWBOY … SAYS IT ALL
PERFECTLY:
Bob Diamond: Too much trouble. They go elsewhere. We tried for a while, but they damage the tupas. Too rowdy. What about your chicken? How do you like it?
Daniel Miller: Oh, delicious!
Bob Diamond: Yeah.
[Bob is eating a meatloaf-like substance]
Bob Diamond: Mmm!
Daniel Miller: [curious] What are you eating?
Bob Diamond: You wouldn’t like this. Ha-ha-ha.
Daniel Miller: What is it? What’s it taste like?
Bob Diamond: You’re curious, aren’t ya? Good. I like that about you. You wanna try?
Daniel Miller: Yeah. It looks so weird.
[Daniel tries the substance, but has a terrible taste; Daniel gags and chokes; Bob laughs]
Daniel Miller: Oh, my God!
Bob Diamond: A little like horseshit, huh?
[Daniel nods as he spits it out]
Bob Diamond: As you get smarter, you begin to manipulate your senses. This tastes much different to me than it does to you.
Daniel Miller: Eww! This is what smart people eat?
WHO BEAT UP THE JEWBOY…
NORMAN MAILER
reminds me of this…wait for it:
PEE HAS YET TO GRASP THAT BEING
STUPID
CAN BE AND IS…
ADAPTIVE.
Stupid people can be well adaptED to certain situations, but that doesn’t mean they have the mental ability TO adapt to many situations.
A furry animal is adapted to the cold. A human making a fur coat is ADAPTING to the cold.
Adapted ≠ Adapting
”Stupid people can be well adaptED to certain situations, but that doesn’t mean they have the mental ability TO adapt to many situations.”
Why not ???
Why not ???
Because the stupid person (for whom stupidity is an advantage) has not adapted his behavior to his advantage, he just happens to be behaving in a way that becomes advantageous for some random reason. The word adapt means change to suit a purpose. The stupid person doesn’t change his behavior to exploit the situation, but the situation may change to fit his behavior.
andrew mccarthy? a much more gracile me.
more like john cleese, christoph metzelder, and william hurt…but…
all of my great great grans had blue eyes and unlike hurt i still have my hair.
there IS an aristo “look”. like prince william, but more. that’s me.
increasingly UN-common among whites.
dysgenics and idiocracy aren’t talk…they’re reality.
the contemporary world has no place for genuine geniuses like j-mac. not anymore.
oops wrong vid.
here’s johnny mac the GENIUS, no kidding, the guy was a fucking genius…at tennis…none compare or even come close:
SUCH AS YOU DREAM ABOUT MOTHERFUCKER.
and johnny mac was always RIGHT!
but he was very lucky in that his metier was OBJECTIVE…the judges made little difference.
but in SHIT-merica and canuckistan…
it’s even worse…
it’s not that the ball is on the line or even close to being on the line…
IN SHIT-MERICA A CLEAR WINNER CAN BE CALLED A FAULT BECAUSE IT LACKS ARTISTIC IMPRESSION OR STYLE POINTS…
If he says the questions were very easy, why not just assign him a near-perfect score on the section?
I had the same thought. I wouldn’t be surprised is PP does something along those lines to tie up loose ends for the final calculation.
It might be reasonable to assume he got all 14 questions right & within the time limits, but the last 5 items give bonus points for rapid replies (under 10-15 seconds) & you can’t tell from his description whether he got any or all of those bonus points, and they make a huge difference to the scaled score.
Pumpkin, would digit span be affected by practice effect of done 1 time? Like, if the first time you do it, you get 6 digits, wait a couple of days, and the next time you do it, you get 7 digits, and the next time you do it you get 8 digits. After that sequence, would the second time you do it be the most accurate?
The first time is most accurate because you’re being scored against a norming sample who mostly have never done it before
Would most people get a higher score if they do it for the second time after a couple of days?
Yes
Pumpkin, I have another question. Say for letter span you practice using only 4 letters, abcd. Say you could string about a hundred digits. If you tried to do the same with a pattern of wxyz, would you be able to do that?
No idea
What do you think at least, with the stuff you know?
Also, why don’t they have figure weights as a main subtext. Don’t they already have 2 spatial tests, and can’t they replace one of them with a Quantitative Reasoning one? Arithmetic is WM, it’s not reasoning (well, maybe it is, I don’t think it is though).
Even though figure weights is very g loaded, it has low reliability in the elderly, so that’s probably why they decided not to make it a core test.