/sci/ - Science & Math

More than the population average. Height and intelligence correlate, and geniuses are much smarter than the average population.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Height_and_intelligence

>>4698923
>Why is the second premise false? The meaning of "good" depends on the context.

Easy mode: Read the link for examples.
Harder mode: make up some counter-examples urself. They are not that hard to come up with.

>If the second premise is false, then you're saying that "X is natural and X is not good" is true. What makes you think everything natural is bad?

The denial of (2) does not imply what u think it implies.
It implies that there is at least one thing such that it is natural and not good. This is true. It does not imply that everything that is natural is not good.

I.e., difference between:
(a) ∃xNx∧¬Gx
(b) ∀xNx→¬Gx
the negation of (2) does indeed imply (a) but not (b). Both (2) and (b) are false.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermaphrodite

Seems to be a cruel joke, yes.

>>4698492

No, this is not how time travel wud work.

http://www.sfu.ca/~swartz/time_travel1.htm

http://www.csus.edu/indiv/m/merlinos/Paradoxes%20of%20Time%20Travel.pdf

>>4698479
It's not a paradox. The supposed paradox involves a confusion of modalities, i.e. a modal fallacy.

http://www.sfu.ca/~swartz/modal_fallacy.htm#omnipotence

There is alot of pseudoscience in psychiatry. Around 30% of US psychiatrists belong to the psychodynatic group, i.e. work with Freudian and Jungian ideas. Mega derp.

Many animals thrive with humans. Here's an interesting example of how to make better use of such an animal.

http://www.ted.com/talks/joshua_klein_on_the_intelligence_of_crows.html

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Note that appeals to nature are fallacious, i.e.:
1. X is natural.
2. If X is natural, then X is good.
Therefore, 3. X is good.
Such arguments are unsound becus the second premise is false. Similar things hold for "unnatural" and "bad", and for "natural" and "just" etc.

http://www.fallacyfiles.org/adnature.html

I used this some years ago.

http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/infapp.htm

Some interesting data here:
http://www.nature.com/news/replication-studies-bad-copy-1.10634
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/05/bias-in-psychology/

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Thoughts? The proposals to fix it sound like good ideas. I think they need to go further and require that authors publicize their raw data for all research published. This wud allow others much greater freedom to check the data and the analysis.

>>4692929
Linguistics is not part of the English dept. I don't consider it a humanities discipline. It is sort of difficult to place, as some of it involves experiments with audio equipment (so, similar to fysics), some of it is comparative (so, similar to anthropology), some of it is theoretical (so, similar to filosofy). Linguistics is a sort of combination of those.

>>4690945
>I suppose, but to just end forever seems so unfulfilling and unsatisfactory.

Perhaps, but wishing it were otherwise does not make it so. Wishful thinking.

>Perhaps I will be born again and live as a new person in the future? Be born in the 2100's or something.
>I will not remember this life, just as I remember nothing from before my birth.

No and no. There is no perhaps. It is beyond a reasonable doubt that u will not do any of that.

>>4690918
I'm not really sure what u even mean with "meaningless" in that post. Do u just mean that human accomplishments will matter to no one? If so, that is true, but i don't see any importance to that. It seems obvious that that is a fact that one will simply have to deal with as part of growing up. After giving up various fairy tales about life, that one has to go as well.

And none of that has anything to do with what matters to me while i live.

>>4690888
Pretty bad thinking there.

U can think of a book with a story as an analogy. A story in a book is not meaningless or does not matter becus it ends at some point. Things that happen to me matter to me (and to some other people). After i'm gone, some of the things i did will matter to some people, and at some future time, none of the things i did will matter to any person. Such is life.

Altho it is true that eventually there will be no one around to think anything. That's just how the world is, and obviously, for most people's sake, at some point in the future, no one will remember them or anything they did. The vast majority of humans leave no cultural 'footprint'.

Low average intelligence. The world average being only something like 90. The white average being only 100.

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>>4690855
I had no link in my post. I inserted some extra text in places and then it worked. Explain this bullshit.jpg

>>4690841
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Of those problems listed on Wikipedia, the only one that doesn't seem immediately solvable with present day or near-future technology is the potential problem of living in lower than Earth gravity.

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I'm betting this will turn out to be a small problem. Perhaps we will see in our life time if i'm right or not.

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