[ExI] re end of world

[Jason Resch]

On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 8:29 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Anders Sandberg
> *Sent:* Thursday, September 10, 2015 3:38 PM
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> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] re end of world
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> >…What happens is that the new mean intelligence is 150+ (as by the old
> scale), turning into a new normal distribution. (I ran a quick Matlab
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> On 2015-09-10 23:15, William Flynn Wallace wrote:
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> >>… If all people with IQs below 150 became sterile, would the gene pool
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> > was left eventually create a population averaging 100 IQ?... bill w​
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> Please those who are hipsters on the topic, especially those with formal
> training, BillW: what is the modern thinking on the notion of IQ?  Last I
> heard it was falling out of favor because we never have established a way
> to measure it such that various tests return similar results, or even the
> same test returns similar scores for the same person.
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> Do colleges ever use IQ as an admissions criterion.  I know MENSA has its
> own test, but are there other uses?
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Yes, the SAT is an IQ test. Just divide the sum of the mathematics and
verbal scores by 10.

Jason


> I see there is a 12 yr old girl in the news they keep trying to sell as
> being more intelligent than Einstein, but not actually explaining where
> that notion came from.  Did she discover a mistake in the General Theory of
> Relativity?  Then what?
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> Anders, BillW, do bring me up to date on IQ please, or anyone else here.
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