Eugine_Nier comments on True numbers and fake numbers - Less Wrong

19 Post author: cousin_it 06 February 2014 12:29PM

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 07 February 2014 07:29:54AM 0 points [-]

If a proposed scale didn't agree with existing ones, it wouldn't be used to measure mass.

Comment author: RichardKennaway 07 February 2014 09:56:56AM 0 points [-]

Of course. Your point?

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 08 February 2014 03:54:53AM 0 points [-]

This means that your comment here isn't actually evidence that IQ is not measurable.

Comment author: RichardKennaway 14 February 2014 08:59:42AM *  0 points [-]

It wasn't intended to be. Were you pattern-matching against debates with other people?

(Late reply; knocked out by a cold all week.)

ETA: Having just read Sniffnoy's comment and the useful article linked there, I have a better appreciation of the context around this issue. Some people have made the observation I made as such an argument.