/sci/ - Science & Math

Friendly reminder UFOs and HAARP conspiracy theory threads are best made in >>>/x/, 4chan's paranormal board, where they have historically been placed.

The evidence for IQ's predictive value in life outcomes is established. How do you expect people respond to it? Accept their lot in life because of their score in a test that is supposed to predict what their lot in life is going to be regardless of their awareness of it?

To the extent to which the correlation of IQ to life outcomes is deterministic, it makes people who insist on its value for daily life into the insecure, obsessive and powerless daily-IQ-thread makers of /sci/. This isn't the same as being wrong, but it engenders an attitude contrary to our sense and need of having agency to make meaningful life choices and it's repulsive enough to keep it out of the life of anyone who doesn't want to be miserable. It probably helps if you want to be a socially desirable person and more likely to pass on your excellent genome too.

>Another 15 year old who read Nietzsche

Please take this thread to /his/, or /x/

Why don't two objects traveling at, say, 0.7c in exact opposite directions perceive one another as traveling faster than light?

I'm too much of a retard for the wiki page on Lorentz transformations.

I'm skeptical because of how far-fetched re-connecting a spinal cord like its just a copper wire sounds like. I'm no neuroscientist here, but how do you pair millions of microscopic axons together in the right pattern and make them able to pass action potentials? Is there some basic piece of evidence I'm missing or is this guy 100% talking nonsense?