WOW!! I have heard that Lesswrong.com is at the intellectual pinnacle of the Internet. Very little here is even worthy of refutation. The general population has a mean IQ of 100 and a standard deviation of 15. The elite professions have a mean IQ of 126 and a stand deviation of 6.5. If you don't believe the latter, I provided the evidence in the bibliography. Do the math. If you can't, than who cares what you think? In the article I reference the Robert Hauser work that suggests a lower mean but a higher standard deviation. If used solely, it would lower the extent of exclusion, but not by much.
WOW!! I have heard that Lesswrong.com is at the intellectual pinnacle of the Internet. Very little here is even worthy of refutation. The general population has a mean IQ of 100 and a standard deviation of 15. The elite professions have a mean IQ of 126 and a stand deviation of 6.5. If you don't believe the latter, I provided the evidence in the bibliography. Do the math. If you can't, than who cares what you think? In the article I reference the Robert Hauser work that suggests a lower mean but a higher standard deviation. If used solely, it would lower the extent of exclusion, but not by much.
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