DanArmak comments on Rationality Quotes August 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 06 August 2013 10:30:19AM 3 points [-]

Okay, maybe there aren't other examples quite as good as him, but a few of these people surely come close.

Or we could simply point out that with average IQs in the 70s and 80s, average mathematician IQs closer to 140s - or 4 standard deviations away, even in a population of billions we still would only expect a small handful of Ramanujans - consistent with the evidence.

Yes, but I'm not sure all of the populations working in cotton fields and sweatshops had such a low average IQ. (And Gould just said “people”, not “innumerable people” or something like that.)

Comment author: DanArmak 16 August 2013 08:09:12PM -1 points [-]

(And Gould just said “people”, not “innumerable people” or something like that.)

Did you mean innumerate people?

Comment author: [deleted] 16 August 2013 09:23:06PM *  3 points [-]

I meant ‘lots of people’, not ‘people who cannot do arithmetic’. looks word up EDIT: Huh, looks like that was the right word after all.

Comment author: DanArmak 16 August 2013 10:38:00PM 2 points [-]

Sorry, then. Your phrasing sounded wrong to me, but I was wrong.

Comment author: Document 16 August 2013 10:08:21PM 1 point [-]

Will you update your post after looking the word up confirms that it means what you thought it did?

Comment author: [deleted] 16 August 2013 10:20:28PM 2 points [-]

I was going to but I forgot to. Thank you.