Moss_Piglet comments on Rationality Quotes November 2013 - Less Wrong

5 Post author: malcolmocean 02 November 2013 08:35PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (388)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: Moss_Piglet 03 November 2013 11:48:44PM *  5 points [-]

For combining information in such a way you would have to believe that the average black with a IQ of 120 will get a higher GPA score than the average white person.

I think there little reason to believe that's true.

Could you explain your reasoning here?

IQ is a strong predictor of academic performance, and a 1.5 sd gap is a fairly significant difference. The only thing I could think of to counterbalance it so that the average white would get a higher GPA would be through fairly severe racial biases in grading policies in their favor, which seems at odds with the legally-enforced racial biases in admissions / graduation operating in the opposite direction. Not to mention that black African immigrants, legal ones anyway, seem to be the prototype of high-IQ blacks who outperform average whites.

I am a little puzzled by the claim, which leads me to believe I've misunderstood you somehow or overlooked something fairly important.

Comment author: ChristianKl 03 November 2013 11:53:41PM 4 points [-]

I missed the qualification of speaking of whites with the same IQ. I added it via an edit.

Comment author: Moss_Piglet 03 November 2013 11:58:20PM 3 points [-]

Right, okay. I did misunderstand you. I'll correct my comment as soon as I figure out the strikethrough function here.

Comment author: Vaniver 04 November 2013 01:16:55AM *  3 points [-]

I believe the primary way to get strikethrough is to strikethrough the entire comment, by retracting it.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 04 November 2013 03:55:40AM -1 points [-]

You can use unicode.

Comment author: [deleted] 04 November 2013 09:53:40AM 0 points [-]

I'd recommend Vaniver's solution instead -- IME Android phones don't like yours.