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SilentCal comments on There is no such thing as strength: a parody - Less Wrong Discussion

25 Post author: ZoltanBerrigomo 05 July 2015 11:44PM

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Comment author: SilentCal 10 July 2015 11:00:58PM 5 points [-]

http://lesswrong.com/lw/km6/why_the_tails_come_apart/

I can't find data, but I bet the one-dimensional folk model works quite well among the general population.

Comment author: Wes_W 11 July 2015 03:55:15AM *  1 point [-]

It does! It's pretty reasonable to say that I'm much stronger than the average non-athlete, and Dan Green is much stronger than me, and all the fiddly caveats don't really change that analysis.

Does this work better or worse than IQ? I'm not sure.