gjm comments on Rational Evangelism - Less Wrong

9 Post author: aarongertler 26 February 2014 06:00AM

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Comment author: gjm 28 February 2014 09:04:26PM 0 points [-]

don't the LW surveys consistently show that there isn't a large IQ increase in less wrong readers?

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but if you mean "... that there isn't a large difference between the IQs of LW readers and those of the general population" then no, the surveys appear to show the exact opposite: so far as one can tell from these surveys, the LW population appears to be something like 3 standard deviations above average.

For the avoidance of doubt, this is perfectly consistent with its being a really bad idea to be dismissive about people with average IQs -- though as it happens I don't think Alicorn actually was, and in particular she didn't refer to anyone as "IQ 100s".