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Few sports embody what Howard Gardener called bodily-kinesthetic intelligence quite like skateboarding, where champions seem to defy the laws of gravity. But how smart are the best skateboarders in the conventional sense? How would they score on an actual IQ test?
vice.com describes the negative stereotype:
Skateboarders have never been accused of being the smartest people in the room. They are creative, artistic, and resourceful, but most are high school or home school drop-outs incapable of basic reading comprehension.
Average IQ of the 10 best skaters
While your average skater may have only average intelligence, those who dominate the sport might be quite a bit smarter. The following video ranks the ten best skaters:
Even though skateboarding is a physical skill, it requires far more coordination than most sports, which means the brain is highly involved.
Since the best skaters must be young enough to be physically active, but old enough to have decades of practice, the majority of the most skilled are from Generation X (the 84 million Americans born from the early 1960s to the early 1980s). About 1.7% of U.S. youth are core skaters (defined as people who’ve skated 52+ times per year). Assuming this was the case when generation X was young, roughly 1.4 million Gen Xers were core skaters.
Thus, ranking among the ten best skaters in America is roughly a one in 140,000 level achievement, and the median top ten skater would be at the one in 280,000 level (or roughly 4.5 standard deviations above the mean). And because performance correlates about 0.82 with talent, the top ten skaters likely average 0.82(4.5) = 3.69 standard deviations above average in raw physical coordination. And since physical coordination correlates 0.35 with IQ, they likely average 0.35(3.69) = 1.29 standard deviations above average in IQ.
In other words the 10 best skaters in America likely average an IQ of about 120 (smarter than 90% of Americans their age), however the Gaussian curve predicts that in a group of 10 people, the dullest is roughly 20 points below the group’s average and the brightest is roughly 20 points above, and so America’s 10 best skaters likely range from around a normal IQ of 100 to a genius IQ of 140.
Perhaps one of the smartest on the list is Rodney Mullen:
As a child, he used Erector sets to build a complete control center for his room, which used pulleys and strings to allow him to turn on the lights and open the door from the upper bunk of his bed.
High IQ may run in his family: His mother “graduated high school at age 14 and then earned a degree in physics, while also being an accomplished pianist.”
It’s interesting to note that the #1 skater on this list (Tony Hawk) actually took a professionally administered IQ test and scored an incredible 144! Described by the psychologist as a twelve-year-old’s mind in an eight-year-old’s body, Hawk would grow up to build a $140 million empire.
It’s sometimes claimed that high IQ people only get rich because IQ predicts education and it’s the latter that’s rewarded by the market, but Hawk has little formal education and started getting rich while still in high school. He’s an example of a high functioning braining causing money directly, first by having the neurological ability to master a lucrative sport, and secondly, having the mental ability to parlay that talent into a huge brand.
Starting an online business
Of course we can’t all be the next Tony Hawk no matter how high your IQ might be, but that doesn’t mean we can’t make some money off skateboards, or whatever your passion may be. Who would have guessed that a small web site likeproscootersmart.com made a few thousand dollars last year and expects to double that this year.
“I was shopping for a scooter for my son and noticed that a lot of the sites were affiliate sites so I wanted to get in the game,” the owner explained.
“I’ve actually tried many of the products myself because I want to give unbiased reviews of them. Hover boards are the hardest product to ride because everyone wants to ride one but don’t automatically get the concept of how it works.”
For those who want to learn from his business model and start their own affiliate site, his advice is to just jump in because you’ll “never learn unless you try it.” He also notes that education can be overrated since the internet can teach you anything. He advises not giving up because your luck can change, just when you think something’s a lost cause.
As the super high IQ Marilyn Vos Savant once said, failure tends to be a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
prophylactic mastectomy is UN-necessary. said:
An example of an autosomal dominant condition showing incomplete penetrance is familial breast cancer due to mutations in the BRCA1 gene. Females with a mutation in this gene have an 80% lifetime risk of developing breast cancer. The penetrance of the condition is therefore 80%.
that no one knows what the environment is doesn’t mean there isn’t an environment…
doesn’t mean there isn’t an environment where boob_cancer_+ women needn’t live in fear nor cut their boobs off.
Mikey Blayze said:
WHY MY BOOK, GOT OVER 150 NEW VIEWS IN 1 NIGHT!?
So I have been part of multiple branches of Aleister Crowley’s Thelema cult for over a month now, and quickly became a very popular member of these groups for my refreshing insight.
I officially announced the birth of my own religious cult. An offshoot of Thelema
Noxxeleah
A full member is a Noxxel, can also be called a Noxxemite, the study of our cult is Noxxlogy, a female member is a Noxxele, an new initiate is a Noxxee.
Yesterday night I offered a completely revolutionary concept for Thelema and the cornerstone for my cult,. It is a novel concept for Thelema however not for Budhism. Boddhisatva, Sacrificing your own Enlightenment, for the sake of Enlightening others. I even created a visual chart for it, reflecting the Kabbahlastic Tree of Life.
I incepted this idea in Thelemic terms. By dwelling in the Abyss instead of simply passing thru it, to become a Choronzon, and help others reach enlightenment, thus forsaking my own. As a Choronzon my personal goal is to seek darkness instead of enlightenment, and instead of becoming pure consciousness, in human form become pure unconsciousness in human form.
The idea, the meme, caught on, and spread like wildfire. The status quo was interrupted and I was cast out of the group by the admins. My genes were hurt yes. However the meme i am symbioted with, grew more powerful. It infected the population, and my book views skyrocketed, because the people wanted to read more of my ideas, they wanted more memes! The admins cut out the virus, however it will always have a lasting impact on the population and it is still spreading.
My genes were hurt far far far less, than the meme was empowered. No pain no gain.
Mikey Blayze said:
Comment got deleted
Mikey Blayze said:
Hmmm it seems to just be placed in a Queue
Mikey Blayze said:
Quote from one of my cult supporters.
Underneath the smugness of some of these comments here I’m sensing a lot of fear. The abyss is not for everyone, especially not for those with a fragile ego. I respect what you are trying to accomplish. It will pay off. However, my advice would be don’t lose sight of your Self. You will come across things in the abyss that may try and distort that. Simply observe. Fight with all your might to not become. Through this you will gain an immense amount of wisdom, experience, and strength that no one will be able to rip away from you. If done right, instead of losing the Self, you will reaffirm the Self and come to know things that others who haven’t explored the abyss will never be able to comprehend.
GondwanaMan said:
Bro I hope you’re not running an actual factual cult?!?!?!
Name redacted by pp, April 3, 2019 said:
hd occurs in every population but is most common in western europeans. china people have their own repeat expansion diseases.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dentatorubral%E2%80%93pallidoluysian_atrophy
name redacted by pp, April 3, 2019 said:
Name said:
I think trump is trying to play germans by saying that. He wants Germans to pay their fair share. One of the best ways to do it is to say that.
OPRAH-REDACT-MY-NAME [THE TRUE PHILOSOPHER] ESSENTIAL AESTHETICS PREVAIL's said:
ok…
OPRAH-ME [THE TRUE PHILOSOPHER] ESSENTIAL AESTHETICS PREVAIL's said:
Name redacted by pp, April 5, 2019 said:
apparently the late onset form is a totally different disease…or more likely my dad didn’t have it. it’s either a mystery or malpractice. i mean the symptoms mostly don’t match but how incompetent would the MDs have to be not to test for it? just throw up their hands for 5 years and claim they had no idea.
because i care. said:
it has occurred to me that the “horribleness” is mostly FOR the UN-afflicted.
that is, it might be A LOT better to die from a neurodegenerative disease which affected the personality like the shadow of a dark cloud than to die from cancer fully compos mentis or a neurodegenerative disease which didn’t affect personality (much) like ALS or PD.
FADE TO BLACK.
K said:
A question:
What kinds of meat dishes do you all eat?
RaceRealist said:
Steak, steak, steak and eggs and more steak on resting days. (Various cuts. I’m privy to beef tenderloin at the moment.) On my workout days I eat low fat meat, high carb and lower fat (than my rest days).
King meLo said:
So you no longer advocate ketogenic diets?
RaceRealist said:
Of course I do, what I do for myself is different than what I advise my clients to do. It’s context-dependent. I have high insulin sensitivity, not low. My goals are also different than most of my clients (being elderly, and obese and average Joe and Jane) so they get recommended different diets.
King meLo said:
So what do you think of this quote and this article? Just curious.
“Several metabolic ward studies have shown that there is no difference in weight loss when protein intake was held constant.1
Metabolic effects of isoenergetic nutrient exchange over 24 hours in relation to obesity in women.2
Energy-intake restriction and diet-composition effects on energy expenditure in men.
Nutrient balance in humans: effects of diet composition.
Nutrient balance and energy expenditure during ad libitum feeding of high-fat and high-carbohydrate diets in humans.
Substrate oxidation and energy expenditure in athletes and nonathletes consuming isoenergetic high- and low-fat diets.
Regulation of macronutrient balance in healthy young and older men.
The effect of protein intake on 24-h energy expenditure during energy restriction.
Effects of dietary fat and carbohydrate exchange on human energy metabolism.
Energy expenditure in humans: effects of dietary fat and carbohydrate.
Failure to increase lipid oxidation in response to increasing dietary fat content in formerly obese women.2
Energy intake required to maintain body weight is not affected by wide variation in diet composition.
Weight-loss with low or high carbohydrate diet?
Effect of high protein vs high carbohydrate intake on insulin sensitivity, body weight, hemoglobin A1c, and blood pressure in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.
For a good review of the situation that includes a synthesis of the first 10 of these studies, I suggest you read this paper:
Is a calorie a calorie?
To continue the parade of literature showing no winner in the carbs v. fat battle royale:
Long Term Effects of Energy-Restricted Diets Differing in Glycemic Load on Metabolic Adaptation and Body Composition
Long-term effects of 2 energy-restricted diets differing in glycemic load on dietary adherence, body composition, and metabolism in CALERIE: a 1-y randomized controlled trial.
Efficacy and safety of low-carbohydrate diets: a systematic review.
Popular Diets: A Scientific Review
Effects of 4 weight-loss diets differing in fat, protein, and carbohydrate on fat mass, lean mass, visceral adipose tissue, and hepatic fat: results from the POUNDS LOST trial.
In type 2 diabetes, randomisation to advice to follow a low-carbohydrate diet transiently improves glycaemic control compared with advice to follow a low-fat diet producing a similar weight loss.
Comparison of weight-loss diets with different compositions of fat, protein, and carbohydrates.
Similar weight loss with low- or high-carbohydrate diets.
Energy intake required to maintain body weight is not affected by wide variation in diet composition.
Effect of energy restriction, weight loss, and diet composition on plasma lipids and glucose in patients with type 2 diabetes.
Effects of moderate variations in macronutrient composition on weight loss and reduction in cardiovascular disease risk in obese, insulin-resistant adults.
Atkins and other low-carbohydrate diets: hoax or an effective tool for weight loss?
Ketogenic low-carbohydrate diets have no metabolic advantage over nonketogenic low-carbohydrate diets.
Lack of suppression of circulating free fatty acids and hypercholesterolemia during weight loss on a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet.
Low-fat versus low-carbohydrate weight reduction diets: effects on weight loss, insulin resistance, and cardiovascular risk: a randomized control trial.
Comparison of the Atkins, Ornish, Weight Watchers, and Zone diets for weight loss and heart disease risk reduction: a randomized trial.
Long-term effects of a very-low-carbohydrate weight loss diet compared with an isocaloric low-fat diet after 12 mo.
Weight and metabolic outcomes after 2 years on a low-carbohydrate versus low-fat diet: a randomized trial.
The effect of a plant-based low-carbohydrate (“Eco-Atkins”) diet on body weight and blood lipid concentrations in hyperlipidemic subjects.
To come at this problem from the other side, here are three studies showing no difference in weight gain when the ratio of carbs:fat is manipulated:
Fat and carbohydrate overfeeding in humans: different effects on energy storage.3
Macronutrient disposal during controlled overfeeding with glucose, fructose, sucrose, or fat in lean and obese women.
Effects of isoenergetic overfeeding of either carbohydrate or fat in young men.
It may also interest you to learn that dietary fat is what is stored as bodily fat, when a caloric excess is consumed. And that for dietary carbohydrates to be stored as fat (which requires conversion through the process called ‘de novo lipogenesis’ the carbohydrate portion of one’s diet alone must approach or exceed one’s TDEE.
Lyle’s got great read on this subject, but if you prefer a more scientific one I suggest you give this review a gander:
De novo lipogenesis in humans: metabolic and regulatory aspects.
For a great primer on insulin (with tons of citations) and how it really functions, check out this series:
Insulin…an Undeserved Bad Reputation
The series was summarized quite well in this post.
1 If you’re really looking for a metabolic advantage through macronutrient manipulation, you’d be far better off putting your money on protein. There’s actually some evidence that higher intake levels do convey a small metabolic advantage.
2 These two papers actually found a decreased amount of energy expenditure in the high fat diets.
3Â This study found a greater of amount of fat gain in the high fat diet, though weight gain was still similar.”
Article: https://weightology.net/insulin-an-undeserved-bad-reputation/comment-page-1/
King meLo said:
Oh my bad that got formatted completely wrong. I’ll fix it tomorrow if you even care.
RaceRealist said:
please reformat. it’s hard to read your interjections and what I assume is quotations.
RaceRealist said:
“For a great primer on insulin (with tons of citations) and how it really functions, check out this series:”
I know the functions of insulin in the body. I know that excess protein intake leads to an increase in insulin production. Which is why protein is kept low relative to fat intake. I am aware that dietary fat can be stored as body fat in the presence of increased caloric intake above the TDEE, which is why one should not eat ad libitum. If one partakes in what is known as “mindful eating” and eats only whole, natural foods (i.e., non-refined foods) then their hormones will regulate and will let them know when to stop eating.
When we eat, blood sugar increases and so insulin rises. Insulin then moves the consumed glucose into its storage for later use, storing it in the liver. However, there is a limit and after this limit is reached, excess CHO then is turned into body fat. While consuming so many meals—especially full of refined carbohydrates—insulin levels never get a chance to lower and that individual is in, what I would call, a chronic state of insulin elevation and therefore their bodies cannot tap into their bodily fat for energy since they have the constant stream of glucose to tap into for energy. This chronic state of insulin elevation, of course, eventually leads to hyperinsulinemia and, eventually, obesity.
Further, on the point about protein increasing insulin, it’s a non-factor in the current obesity epidemic since the recommendations for women are 46 g per day and for men are 56 g per day. (I do believe that those values are way too low, since it is known that protein is the most sating macro, to lose weight, one should increase their protein intake since they will be sated for longer.)
Fat is also very sating, see:
https://blog.virtahealth.com/fat-most-satiating-macronutrient/
Also see the conclusion of this study, which shows the effects of two main determinants of hunger/satiety hormones:
The patterns of secretion of ghrelin and PYY in our study of prepubertal children suggest that they may play a role in the effectiveness of high-protein/low-carbohydrate diets in promoting weight loss.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2775646/
The hormone peptide YY regulates appetite.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12851312
This study shows that, in high-fat diets compared to low-fat diets, low-fat diets reduced peptide YY compared to high-fat diets, which suggests, of course, that high-fat diets are better for hunger suppression and, therefore, will lead to higher amounts of weight loss and also lead to better dietary compliance.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4873405/
This study on obese men shows that high-fat diets, compared to high protein, and other types of diets, that high protein intake suppresses energy intake in lean and obese individuals, while also showing that obese individuals are less sensitive to the satiating effects of fat, which is to be expected:
https://sci-hub.tw/10.1152/ajpgi.00478.2011
This study shows that inadequate protein intake leads to increased hunger and desire to eat more in younger and older men:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2259459/
So, we can see that since the dietary recommendations for protein are low, then this would lead to increased hunger and, of course, higher levels of fat accumulation and eventually obesity since, of course, with the SAD (standard American diet), people overconsume fat and protein (the combination of which leads to hyperpalatable foods), leading to obesity and insulin resistance which then leads to type II diabetes.
You should also read Vita Health’s studies on diabetics and TII remission as well. They are at the forefront of using HFLC diets in putting TII diabetes into remission and help people lose weight.
https://blog.virtahealth.com/ketosis-appetite-hunger/
Even their main study shows this effect: HCLF diets are better at suppressing appetite then moderate-carb, calorie-restricted diet:
https://sci-hub.tw/10.1038/s41387-017-0006-9
The Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommends that carbohydrates make up 45 to 65 percent of your total daily calories. So, if you get 2,000 calories a day, between 900 and 1,300 calories should be from carbohydrates. That translates to between 225 and 325 grams of carbohydrates a day.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-healthy-eating/in-depth/carbohydrates/art-20045705
That is insanity, based on what I have just expounded on.
I see no rational reason for believing that CHO should be as high as the ACA recommends. This leads to increased hunger and overeating, of course, due to the lethal combination of hyperpalatable fats and carbs (as David Kessler notes in his book The End of Overeating).
Quite clearly, it is madness to keep protein low (as low as the reccs say); it is madness to keep carbohydrates as high as the reccs say; and it is madness to believe that insulin is not a primary driver in obesity and TII diabetes. The Virta Health studies are showing that, to lose weight and manage and put TII diabetes into remission, a LFHC diet is what should be recommended.
RaceRealist said:
“a LFHC diet is what should be recommended.”
Whoops. A HFLC diet is what should be recommended ** especially for TII diabetics. Note that I work with a lot of obese/diabetic people. So why wouldn’t I push a HFLC diet?
Arthur Doyle said:
human flesh.
serial killers have hitherto only killed people in various ways; the point is to eat them.
but peepee won't allow this proof. said:
if peepee allows pill to listen to this, pill will agree with me that [redacted by pp, aug 4, 2019]
jesus founded a church...he didn't write a book... said:
perhaps shoe can only get [redacted by pp, aug 4, 2019]for his podcast. david skrbina also wrote the following book: https://www.davidskrbina.com/jesus-hoax.
of course skrbina might’ve written it for the money. there’s a lot of money in jesus shit.
“the kingdom of God and the roman empire had become one and the same.”
71.7% of all popes have been guidos. not an accident.
whatever you bind on earth... said:
when the roman church undoes the 2d vatican council and reinstitutes latin as the only liturgical language and when the pope speaks ex-cathedra condemning mariolatry then you will know.
Died between AD 64 and 68 (aged 62–67) Clementine Chapel, Vatican Hill, Rome, Italia, Roman Empire.
dvorzak = skrbina. very bad taste to spell one's name in an unpronounceable way. said:
notice in the vid that professor shoe [redacted by pp, aug 4, 2019]
he describes dvorzak as a professor at the university of michigan and then as a professor at one of the most prestigious universities.
and then shoe brags about yale.
dvorzak is actually a professor at the university of michigan dearborn, a shit school. it’s like the university of california at santa cruz but shittier.
if pill were allowed to listen to it he’d agree. [redacted by pp, aug 4, 2019]
san pellegrino has the highest sulfate content of all popular bottled waters. said:
an example for autists:
i was at the dealership today getting my free oil change and i bought a perrier. i’m not a water snob. i’d confused perrier with san pellegrino.
this guy at the dealership axes me, “how do you know it has a lot of sulfur in it?” and he looks at the label trying to find “sulfur” as an ingredient.
[redacted by pp, April 4, 2019]
peepee tested prisoners in her imagination. said:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16958304
pumpkinperson said:
I’ve tested lots of criminals. That you think I’m lying shows low social IQ on your part.
most lesbians are psychopaths. said:
that you think i don’t know you’re lying shows very low social IQ.
pumpkinperson said:
Your social IQ is so low you confuse truth telling with lies.
I’ve personally tested over 200+ people in my life & for most of these I asked, how much of your life have you spent in jail: hours, days, weeks, months, years or decades. Those who said “decades” averaged IQ 85 iirc.
RaceRealist said:
What test?
pumpkinperson said:
A test I created.
RaceRealist said:
How did you create it?
pumpkinperson said:
By using other tests as inspiration & by thinking up items that are both g loaded enough to measure IQ yet fun enough that hundreds of people would take part
RaceRealist said:
Is it construct valid?
pumpkinperson said:
By the standards of the field, yes.
RaceRealist said:
Which are?
pumpkinperson said:
Things like does it correlate with other IQ tests? Does it correlate with teacher’s subjective impression of brightness. Does it predict success at school or work? Does it predict success independently of social class? etc
RaceRealist said:
How is that anything other than circular reasoning?
In any case, how did you validate the test? How is that evidence for construct validity in regard to the actual definition (that when X goes up, Y goes down and vice versa)?
pumpkinperson said:
We’ll construct validity is how well a test measures what it’s supposed to measure. The very concept is somewhat circular because what a test is supposed to measure depends on how we define the measured trait & how we define it determines how we measure it.
How do I know a tape measure measured height? Because height is the distance from top to bottom & I measured the distance from top to bottom? Sounds like circular logic but anything defined by definitions is inevitably circular because language itself is.
When you define a word & then define the words used to define those words & then define the words used to define those words, you eventually come full circle to the word you were defining.
King meLo said:
Also I think RR may be confusing construct validity with predictive validity.
mikey blayze said:
Pumpkin, PUMPKIN! URGENT! Any and all data you have compiled on IQ could possibly be skewed, due to Male to Female and Female to Male Transvestites, passing as the opposite gender! How big of a skew could this be for IQ research as whole?
pumpkinperson said:
Not very big because there are so few such cases & because the sexes don’t differ much in IQ
Thinking Mouse said:
PP be like:
Transsexuals got the highest avarage IQ because of their ability to adapt to the harsh environment of their gender dysphoria and liberal politics.
Mikey Blayze said:
There could be a large skew at the genius level of IQ. Something to at least look into, after crowley ahem
The Social Justice Warrior said:
No puppy would say child transvesties are the smartest because they are the most tolerant. Child transvestite zoo keepers maybe the most.
Billy said:
Transhumanism is subsequent to Trannism. High IQ is entropic. Transhumanism is entropic. Therefore trannies will have high IQs. Simple.
Mikey Blayze said:
right but it could be causing average female IQ to be higher than it should by a few points at least.
and upon this rock i will found mariolatry! said:
italy can NEVER be “just another country”.
AND italian americans can NEVER be “just another white ethnicity”.
Name redacted by pp, April 5, 2019 said:
peepee says, “just look at them. they LOOK superior.”
she says this about CHINA PEOPLE???
???
totti LOOKS superior.
why is there an expression “roman nose”?
The Social Justice Warrior said:
When they asked him what he would be if he didn’t become a footballer he said he’d probably end up as a petrol pump attendant. Hes from a very working class background.
name redacted by pp, april 6, 2019 said:
because TODAY, that’s what superior people do.
tune in. turn on. drop out.
superior people don’t want to be general of the ant colony or [redacted by pp, april 6, 2019]
this is sad.
the inability of autists and psychopaths to distinguish between social rank or fame and virtue.
peepee banned me again. said:
https://images.app.goo.gl/92fa4ud7xfywMDiE6
Name redacted by pp, April 5, 2019 said:
[redacted by pp, April 5, 2019]
it’s like sean hannity and chris cuomo. dumb people confusing dumb people on behalf of psychopaths.
what’s the difference between this and this???
ANSWER: NO DIFFERENCE!
GROW UP AND GET A HIGH IQ ALREADY!
horst wessel said:
THE WINNERS WRITE HISTORY!
!!!
!!!
sometimes evil triumphs over good. said:
the difference is the latter is more sophisticated.
gordon gecko was based on ivan boesky and carl icahn among othe rmongolians.
we live in gecko’s world. neo-liberalism is the ideology.
the ideology of blut und boden, of national socialism, was defeated with fire bombs and in japan nukes too.
according to striker, the germans used to have a sense of humor. for example, goebbels was very funny. (he was also a phd in literature.) now they are a defeated people. pathetic.
pathetic.
pumpkinperson said:
neo-liberalism is the ideology.
Idiot!
The Social Justice Warrior said:
So after 2 years on sick leave im applying for work again. I’ll apply to McKinsey/Bain/BCG and see what I get back.
I applied for a long/short hedge fund analyst role hahahaha. I never finished the CFA and surprisingly they want that or an accounting qualification.
inside daisy clover it's to bright to read. said:
it’s interesting how so many jobs could work FOR you, provided they weren’t the same job just for different employers. that is, the variety of experience is an asset.
inside daisy clover it's toO bright to read. said:
make sure you don’t make any dumb grammatical mistakes.
The Social Justice Warrior said:
After 7 years on and off antipsychotics my brain has definitely shrunk. Im not as fast as I used to be. I sleep A LOT.
Billy said:
Maybe you’re not as fast as you used to be because you’re 7 years older?
inside daisy clover it's toO bright to read. said:
SCZ is associated with brain atrophy independent of antipsychotics. but given the shitty environment most SCZ people are relegated to this may be just an association and not cause and effect. and is it the whole brain or just parts? hd deaths at autopsy typically have lost 10-20% of overall brain mass, although some lose much less. hd by itself is only the proximal cause of death in a minority of cases. and that proximal cause of death is starvation, which is happens no matter how much the afflicted eats. at the end stage the mutant protein affect the whole body, not just the brain.
The Social Justice Warrior said:
I’ve been fired 14 times. You’d think someone would ask me why there are so many holes in my CV hahahaha. Its like im a permanent short term consultant.
Name redacted by pp, April 6, 2019 said:
i wouldn’t.
the problem is HR people and hiring managers are 100% morons.
and contrary to the proletarian world-view of people like peepee…
most business founders are people who could never have been successful as employees.
it’s still a master and slave society for good/moral reasons.
it’s just that the natural masters (the most humans of humans) end up in prison or homeless a lot of the time.
you should start your own business or become a criminal.
in a small band you’d be the chief.
editing really is for proles. said:
…the most human of humans…
The Social Justice Warrior said:
Puppy says the real world exactly compensates you in direct linkage with your IQ and there are no imperfections in the market. If this is so, then I can expect to get a good job.
pumpkinperson said:
IQ & income are like height & weight. On average tall people are heavier but there are tons of huge exceptions.
putin is a lizard person. i know this from david icke's weekly column in the NYTs. said:
i know. how does peepee explain oprah’s wealth?
pumpkinperson said:
As both Afro & Sailer have said, Oprah is the most deserving of billionaires. Not only did she start with the least & overcome the most adversity, but she much more than other super rich, made money off her own labour since a talk show is only as good as its host.
Rahul said:
Pumpkin, if you study for standardized tests when younger, are you more likely to do better on the SATs without studying as compared to not studying for the standardized tests when younger?
pumpkinperson said:
Depends how similar the tests you are studying for are to the SAT
Rahul said:
How similar are standardized tests when kids are like in 5th-8th grade to the SATs?
Rahul said:
But, even though they could be similar, wouldn’t the fact that the younger ages standardized tests are less complex and difficult take the practice away. Practicing easy things doesn’t necessarily allow you to do the harder things.
Ok, what, who's this again? said:
Skateboarding is an activity that attracts the high IQ types?
Of course not, Jews and East Asians rarely play sports for their numbers.
Why not write a post on black jazz musicians?
They are likely smarter than your White goyim skateboarder.
pumpkinperson said:
Never said skateboarding attracts high IQ people, but those get really good at it tend to have high IQs
Rahul said:
Pumpkin, if you took a WAIS IV and WISC V similarities test, and got drastically different subtest scores, what would cause it? You’d probably have the ability, since you got a decent score the first time, but what explains the much lower score on the second one?
pumpkinperson said:
Well there’s an element of luck in each test question. If you just happen to be looking at the nouns you are comparing from the perspective the test is looking for, you might get lucky. If you just happen to be looking at them from the wrong perspective, you get unlucky. Usually good look and bad luck cancels itself out over the administration of a single subtest, but in rare cases, someone might accumulate good luck on one version of a sub-test, and bad luck on another, thus causing a discrepancy between the two versions. Their true ability likely lies in between.
Rahul said:
Pumpkin, does word recognition have anything to do with pattern recognition?
Mikey Blayze said:
Since duality is in everything, I am trying to find the logical, rational, scientific reasons for who is more likely to receive spiritual messages and why?
Right off the bat, its obvious males are more likely, which is paradoxical because today the average woman is more spiritual and religious than the average man. I’m reading that there were at least a few hundred thousand male prophets thru out recorded history, 99% of them were no name nobodies, that were not specifically remembered in history, and there were only 7 female prophets, yet there names were all remembered, also they were royalty. In fact all of the male prophets remembered thru-out history came from royalty and hi status as well.
Aleister Crowley came from a wealthy family too.
I’m thinking becoming a true prophet does not necessarily require being wealthy per say, but merely having an extra-ordinary large amount of free time on your hands,access to a large communication network, people skills, and a keen intellect. The Revelation’s and Insights are most likely based on the same principles of spontaneous combustion. Have a lot of idle, free time on your hands, combined with a intellectual mind and neurons start firing off at maximum capacity. Be in this state for weeks months, even years, and the likely hood of a spiritual message is bound to increase. Still even with all of these things going for someone, they are still not likely to have a spiritual epiphany, just more likely than the average Joe working at Kinko’s.
Actually it is entirely likely there are hundreds of thousands if not millions of prophets,in poor countries that are not able to relay their messages, to more than close friends and family!
LOADED said:
Prophets are people that have precognitive abilities. I have some ability to forsee the future, specifically through dreams. It’s not uncommon, really. So yes, many prophetic instances are alive and well.
Mikey Blayze said:
There are experiments that show the heart, has a nervous system and is more than a pump, and will alert you to danger before the threat is actually there. Pre- cognition might come from the heart in a literal sense
LOADED said:
Ah, that’s a beautiful way of interpreting it, yes. I completely agree. The mind is always searching for answers into the future. We never are just in the present.
Mikey, what are your thoughts on non-linear timelines? What do you think of life after death? I think you a very, very wise man, good sir. I would love to hear some of your thoughts on and about this world, nature, and the Universe.
Rahul said:
Pumpkin, but what if you get the answers on the test you got a worse score on- wouldn’t that mean that you have the ability to do the questions, just on that particular day you looked at it from another perspective?
Rahul said:
I phrased it wrong. *What if you get the answers to the questions right on another day.
it is i, the blind kung fu master! said:
this video reminds me of professor steve hsu.
name redacted by pp, april 6, 2019 said:
of course that should’ve been…
turn on (the tv). tune in (make it work). drop out.
pumpkinhead said:
RR
“In terms of socially constructed things and on a scale of 1 to 10(10 being absolutely socially constructed);
0(a rock)……..0.000000001(humankind)……0.0000001(gender)
………race(0.00001)…….1(currency)
Meaning that nor humankind nor gender nor race could possibly conceivably be considered social constructs.”
I am quoting myself here in order to make a small but necessary clarification. Obviously my infinitesimally small figures were created for effect and to make a point. Upon further inspection I have revised my thoughts on the matter. It appears that “race consciousness” is not merely a mechanistic feature of our tribal nature. In other words not entirely instinctually instantiated. Certainly in more recent times(last 5k years) we have had a more clear understanding of race and perhaps some agents within each race(small but dynamic minority) act as guardians(the most egregious of which we would today call racists) and proponents of strict directional selection of that race. I think in the distant past closer to the emergence of modern humans this was far less prevalent but seems to have accelerated with time as we become more self conscious beings. Which in a way implies that race has a dose of social constructionism to it(in as much as that has taken a more conscious at the expense of it’s primal instinctual character).
But here in lies the issue, the term social construct requires some kind of human invention and that is not the same as human mediation. Sure we at a very marginal level mediate the direction of race(less than 5% I would say) but we do not invent race, at least not yet. As such this type of social constructionism is an “emergent” one out of almost an infinite number of variables that no one human can realistically keep track of or control. So while I would be happy to accept that race has a small dose of emergent social constructionism this does not render it a categorical social construct(as it is conventionally understood).
One more clarification necessary is that a social construct has a clear point of invention(by one or a few human beings) after which we can clearly track successive iterations or the evolution of that social construct(ie various forms of currency throughout history). No such thing is possible with race as no one person but rather millions of people are responsible for the emergence of race outside of geographic and other cultural limitations.
So in order to adhere to intellectual honesty I would revise my above metric and very roughly say that:
In terms of socially constructed things and on a percentile(100% being absolutely socially constructed);
0(a rock)
0.0000000000001%(sex)
0.000001%(humankind)
0.5%(gender)
<5%(race)
100%(currency)
Note that sex is much older than humankind hence how much less of a social construct it is. Also note that gender appears to be roughly 1/200th a social construct in that this is the amount of people that go against their prescribed gender(however outside of reality this is) and given that 0.6% of the US population identify as transgender(many, perhaps most of which are intersex at 0.05-0.07%). Also note that race is of the emergent social construct variety which IMO is a different animal entirely to conventional notions of a social construct but for simplicity I am including it in this scale.
So I don't know how you work things out but AFAIC 0.5% and even 5% are negligible amounts and do not warrant at any reasonable level the label of social construct for gender or race.
Rahul said:
Pumpkin, does similarities practice effect go something like this? You go take the test the first time, and the second time you take it, you go in with a different mood than the first one, you know what it’s about and you might remember some of the questions, and since you are in a better mood and better prepared, you answer a couple more right. But, the next time you do it, you go in with a similar mood, and this time, your score wouldn’t increase since your mood didn’t change, and similarities is fluid.
pumpkinperson said:
There’s almost no practice effect on similarities & what little there is may be from the examiner coaching people how to answer which is briefly done at the start of the test. If you’re tested more than once, the coaching might sink in more
Rahul said:
Isn’t the practice effect on similarities like 4 points, according to this study- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221850021_Effects_of_Practice_on_the_Wechsler_Adult_Intelligence_Scale-IV_Across_3-_and_6-Month_Intervals
You said you had access to the actual WAIS IV manual though, that’s definately more accurate than this.
Rahul said:
Pumpkin, what exactly are the practice effects for similarities. Also, by the third time you take it, will there pretty much be zero practice effect because all the instructions sank in.
Rahul said:
How much do you make off this site? What do you do for a living?
Rahul said:
Pumpkin, would it be the most likely case if you took a similarities test, and got three different scores, but took the SAT and got consistent scores, in which the percentile points correspond to one of the similarities one, would it be most likely that the score which corresponds is the true one? I know you said not necessarily, but that could imply that it’s most probable, but it won’t be 100%.
Also, without the instructions, why would there still be a practice effect onsimilarities. Similarities is the first subtest administered, so wouldn’t you do the test with a fresh brain? Also, when they first Norma’s the test, wouldn’t they choose the people in the best moods anyway? So, the moods wouldn’t be all that different right, and since it’s a fluid reasoning test, wouldn’t there be like a threshold of mood, once you are above a certain point of a good mood, an increase in brain freshness wouldn’t help?
OPRAH-ME [THE TRUE PHILOSOPHER] ESSENTIAL AESTHETICS PREVAIL's said:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320054231_Cognitive_Profile_of_Intellectually_Gifted_Adults_Analyzing_the_Wechsler_Adult_Intelligence_Scale
Contrary to expectations, they showed the highest scores in perceptual reasoning tasks. A multivariate approach revealed that this ability was statistically different from all other domains within the gifted group. Moreover, gifted individuals showed higher discrepancies across intellectual domains than average-intelligence people
Rahul said:
Pumpkin, for block design, if you have the capacity to solve a question by visualizing, but you don’t do it that way, and you get it wrong, is that technically an underestimate of IQ, because block design also is said to test visualization?
Rahul said:
Pumpkin, wouldn’t the practice effect diminishing returns be much more than just cutting it in half. Because, if you have the block design test which goes up by one scaled score, if you had someone who got a 10 scaled score, but got a 4 scaled score increase, the guy’s score after 3 turns would be 17, no way that’s possible.