tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post5447053507335162491..comments2024-01-13T18:57:18.243-05:00Comments on Information Processing: Goodbye TaiwanSteve Hsuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02428333897272913660noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-49880255575746054252011-06-10T07:28:16.258-04:002011-06-10T07:28:16.258-04:00"The last sentence of paragraph three does no..."The last sentence of paragraph three does not necessarily follow from the preceding."<br /> <br />No, but the point is that IQ tests in general may be "in Chinese" for many blacks who are not assimilated. For example, have you ever wondered why blacks in northern US cities have retained their southern accents for generations. I'm CERTAIN no whites with ancestors from the MtMorunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-14091499250784468702011-06-09T18:11:00.108-04:002011-06-09T18:11:00.108-04:00Unless you have a different meaning of "straw...Unless you have a different meaning of "straw man" than I do, I would submit that an example of purported racial/culture bias that is actually used, and used repeatedly as evidence, but then shown to be poorly correlated with race, cannot be a straw man.<br /><br />The last sentence of paragraph three does not necessarily follow from the preceding. It is a possible, but not an david wymannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-12741248248003018592011-06-09T07:05:10.407-04:002011-06-09T07:05:10.407-04:00One source is Flynn's What Is Intelligence? No...One source is Flynn's What Is Intelligence? Not well written but very worth reading. For some ECTs IQ is inversely correlated with performance.<br /><br />It is my guess that in the specific sense your textbooks used the term, IQ tests are "socially constructed". It all depends on what is meant by "socially construced".<br /><br />Steve himself mentioned how poorly he MtMorunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-22003584892850325312011-06-08T22:27:25.177-04:002011-06-08T22:27:25.177-04:00I don't know about Steve's professor, but ...I don't know about Steve's professor, but my psychology textbook in the 1970's did have a full page on how IQ tests emphatically did have large elements of social construction - it is where I first read the cliched complaint that "regatta" was an example of a culture-loaded term that black kids wouldn't be as likely to know. (Not true, BTW. Think coastal cities or Assistant Village idiothttp://assistantvillageidiot.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-6770126812398584112011-06-07T20:32:14.796-04:002011-06-07T20:32:14.796-04:00A recent paper by Arthur Jensen discussed his work...A recent paper by Arthur Jensen discussed his work on mental chronometry studies and his theory of intelligence:<br /> <br />"Intelligence is the periodicity of neural oscillation in theaction potentials of the brain and central nervous system (CNS)Operationally this hypothesizes that the typical standardpsychometric measures of g are correlated with the oscillationrates of the brain and CNSbottinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-74546148586806745652011-06-07T20:30:08.917-04:002011-06-07T20:30:08.917-04:00A recent paper by Arthur Jensen discussed his work...A recent paper by Arthur Jensen discussed his work on mental chronometry studies and his theory of intelligence:<br /> <br />"Intelligence is the periodicity of neural oscillation in theaction potentials of the brain and central nervous system (CNS)Operationally this hypothesizes that the typical standardpsychometric measures of g are correlated with the oscillationrates of the brain and CNSbottinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-11309427480618518302011-06-07T12:07:20.472-04:002011-06-07T12:07:20.472-04:00Ridicule and parody are is the most effective way ...Ridicule and parody are is the most effective way to combat the ignorance coming from sociologists and other crazy leftists. They need to be laughed at for they deserve it. Sam Hhttp://profiles.google.com/samh550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-8406102687947150902011-06-06T21:15:00.527-04:002011-06-06T21:15:00.527-04:00"Huh? What? But, my sociology professor told ..."Huh? What? But, my sociology professor told me it's just a social construction!"<br /><br />I guess a sense of humor isn't g loaded. They are stupid but I doubt any sociology professor has ever said this to you or anyone else regarding differences in intelligence between people. <br /><br />Do you smell that? Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of BS inMtMorunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-45570874760356181332011-06-06T20:13:49.503-04:002011-06-06T20:13:49.503-04:00I knew it. I offered the theory back in high scho...I knew it. I offered the theory back in high school when I was pwning n00bs in Halo.<br /><br />:-)TheGuyFromEarliernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-59417121008458741892011-06-06T12:20:13.911-04:002011-06-06T12:20:13.911-04:00Have a safe trip!Have a safe trip!Sabine Hossenfelderhttp://twitter.com/skdhnoreply@blogger.com