<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 8:29 PM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="white" lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext"> extropy-chat [mailto:<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Anders Sandberg<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, September 10, 2015 3:38 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] re end of world<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="color:#1f497d">>…</span>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 test). <br><br><span style="color:#1f497d">…</span><u></u><u></u></p><span class=""><div><p class="MsoNormal">On 2015-09-10 23:15, William Flynn Wallace wrote:<u></u><u></u></p></div></span><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><br>><span style="color:#1f497d">>…</span> If all people with IQs below 150 became sterile, would the gene pool that<br>> was left eventually create a population averaging 100 IQ?<span style="color:#1f497d">...</span><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS""> bill w</span>​<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Do colleges ever use IQ as an admissions criterion.  I know MENSA has its own test, but are there other uses?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> </span></p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, the SAT is an IQ test. Just divide the sum of the mathematics and verbal scores by 10.</div><div><br></div><div>Jason</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="white" lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">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?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Anders, BillW, do bring me up to date on IQ please, or anyone else here.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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