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The time on LW correlated negatively with IQ... (and getting the high IQ people to come is difficult). You don't get to invite the whole world.
It is still rarer than many other things, e.g. extremely overinflated self assessment is not very rare.
Well, yeah.
One can always special plead their ways out of any data. There's two types of IQ score, one of them is about mental age, by the way.
I thought we discovered this was driven by outliers in people who spent very little time on LW. (I'm on my phone, or I would check.)
Do you have any recollections on the source for that discovery?
Is the full survey data available, so that we could look at the distribution?
Yes; the OP has a link to the 2013 survey data in the last line. Also note survey results for 2012, 2011, and 2009. Here's my comment on this year's describing what happened last year, and while this is relevant I have a memory of looking at the data, making a graph, and calling it 'trapzeoidal,' but I don't know where that is, and I don't see the image uploaded where I probably would have uploaded it- so I guess I never published that analysis. Anyway, I recommend you take a look at it yourself.
Dunno, maybe. In any case 'repelling lower IQ people' hypothesis seems like it ought to yield a corresponding correlation between IQ and participation, but the opposite or no correlation is observed. (albeit the writing clarity here is quite seriously low - using private terminology instead of existing words, etc. which many may find annoying and perhaps inaccessible)