Despite being a huge prole (low IQ physique, U.S. flag behind prominently displayed in his screen shots), Joe Rogan is a good interviewer, although I question why almost all his guests are men. If I had the #1 podcast in the World, I’d be using it to meet some beautiful women.
“Give me a break he’s probably queer” would say the disgustingly homophobic step-dad in Rob Zombie’s Halloween. “He’s gona cut off his dick and change his name to Joanne.”
Commenters like RR believe that the physical laws of the universe can not explain mental properties like the mind. More broadly, many people have long believed in ghosts or the idea of a soul; the notion that our essence can transcend our physical selves however, Brian Cox argues this is nonsense (see video below).
Joe Rogan probably has an IQ of 125 which is extremely high for a prole, and helps explain why he came from nothing to become a centimillionaire in the verbally loaded field of podcasting. But Cox is probably above 150. He has a large cranial capacity, high IQ physique and the calm quiet demeanor of the upper class.
There’s a beautiful paper about converting the ACT to the Generation Y SAT (taken April 1995 to March 2016). Apparently there was a massive sample of people who took book the ACT and Generation Y SAT making it possible to equate scores of equal percentile rank within this group that took both tests. The results are as follows:
Once you know the SAT equivalent of your ACT, you can convert the SAT score into an IQ equivalent using this little formula I made:
IQ equivalent = 23.835 + 0.081(SAT) (U.S. norms)
What’s strange is that ACT.org has a chart converting ACT to SATs in 2018
If you use this chart, you can convert SAT to IQ using the formula I created for Generation Z SAT scores (taken after March 2016):
IQ = 26 + 0.07(Combined SAT)
So let’s say you’re a genius who scored a perfect 36 on the ACT. If you convert to Generation Y SAT scores you get 1600 which converts to IQ 153 using the Generation Y formula.
But if you convert to Generation Z SAT scores, you get 1590 which equates to IQ 137! That’s a difference of 16 points for the same ACT score.
My guess is that by eliminating all the hardest questions from the SAT so that generation Z could have a safe space and so political correctness could be maintained, the equipercentile equating with ACT scores went awry at the high end. Until further research can clarify this issue, I strongly recommend using the Generation Y conversions, even if you’re in Generation Z.
In 2001, the Harris poll asked a representative sample of American adults who they admired enough to consider a hero (maximum 3 names). Because Americans were free to name literally anyone who had ever lived (or not have lived in the case of fictional characters or religious myths) being named by even 1% of Americans is a huge honor and means millions of people in the World’s powerful country, rank you above 99.9999999% of all humanity! Not surprisingly then, the list tends to be dominated by near deities, with Jesus coming in first.
However in January 2009, the country went into such a state of delirious euphoria over a “black” man being elected President, that the unthinkable happened: Barack Obama overtook Jesus as the most admired person of all time.
Forty years ago it was unthinkable that a black could be the most worshiped person in the World but to be the most admired person to ever live; more admired than even Jesus, the putative son of God was considered blasphemy. The evangelical community went absolutely ballistic, and Michael Jackson (who himself dreamed of being the first black messiah only to instead become a huge pariah forced to live out his final years in exile) must have been so jealous he could have died; and sadly he did die six month after the poll was released.
As far as I can tell, Harris conducted the poll only one more time (Sept 2014). Barack Obama was once again named a hero more than any other living human, however he was no longer ahead of Jesus.
As the years past I kept waiting for Harris to do the poll again and finally decided that if Harris could not be bothered to continue their poll, I’d be forced to keep the tradition alive myself, so at the end of each year I started using Survey Monkey to ask a representative sample of U.S. adults who they admire enough to consider a hero. Like the Harris poll, there is no pre-selected list to choose from so many people just name their parents or personal friends. Nonetheless on the last day of 2023, 9% of Americans named Jesus, 4% each named God and Barack Obama. Abraham Lincoln and Superman were each named by 3% and Donald Trump and Joe Biden were each named by 2%.
Not a single woman made the list for 2023!
However every other year the poll has been conducted, Mother Teresa was the highest ranking woman, and probably still would be had my sample size been large enough to confidentially include names listed by only 1% of Americans. Teresa sadly passed away before the poll was ever conducted.
Oprah Winfrey, Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama each ranked as the most worshiped LIVING woman in 2001, 2009, and 2022 respectively.
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