[ExI] Forbidden Words

Rafal Smigrodzki rafal.smigrodzki at gmail.com
Sun Feb 11 04:53:57 UTC 2018


Didn't the discussion start out with

On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 8:55 AM, William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 2.7 IQ points is not within sampling error, as long as our sample is large
> enough.
>
> Rafal
>
> There can be huge differences between what is statistically difference,
> and what is meaningful in the everyday world.  3 IQ points is meaningless
> in prediction.
>
>
### Well, I find it satisfying to be able to trigger some people with this
tidbit of information, and that's a good enough reason to use it.

3 IQ points does correlate with about 2,000 per capita income difference
between different US states:

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/67ad/691a925532dc7c3d3fcd521b404d16681ba5.pdf
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