/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11238262
Thank you anon, that makes sense. Have a favourite image of mine

>>10295832
>>10295832
>Intelligence exists
>just like temperature exists!
Yea cool great point mate. I don't think I said anything to the contrary. Let me clarify my point so that you understand better: IQ tests are not the best way to test someone in Cambodia trying to gauge the tides so he can calculate how much fish he might encounter and how far he will take his boat out. That's some insane pattern recognition, spatial reasoning, and a whole bunch of IQ skills developed over a lifetime that are definitely shown on the field, but when you take this Cambodian and sit him in a room with an IQ test and a pen, he's really not going to have any idea what comes next in a series of colorful polygons.
Ya get it? It's a good test, but it's not nearly as relevant to intelligence and aptitude in real life as one might think. It's literally an SAT test. (Well, at least half of it is eactly the same as SAT tests) The score can be improved by practicing a lot, but my argument states that you would be a lot better of practicing something related to your chosen field.
And let's face it - if you improve your IQ by studying for it a lot, would that actually increase your intelligence when it comes to, say, managing employees? Risking a new venture for your business? Writing your thesis? Fixing a car? No. You will get better at fixing cars by fixing more cars and doing research, you will get better at managing employees by, againg, doing research and trying out new methods, you will be better at risk-taking the more risks you take, you will be better at writing your thesis the more you've written in the past, and the more familiar you are with your research topic, etc. etc.
We don't live in an MMORPG where everyone has a fixed and pre-determined Int / IQ that exists as a quantitative value that applies to everything we do.

50/?

Long term solution for a short term problem. I dropped out in my first year, threw away 4 years of my life playing videogames with 0 to show for it, and I still managed to crawl out of my hole, start over and get a phd position.

I was an epic fuckup, complete r9k tier, and things still turned around for me, so whatever you do don't think suicide is the correct option.

>>8672903
because light is a wave that travels through a medium
Of course, you might say that there's no medium because a tiny interferometer built by some fuckwits 100 years ago couldn't detect it
LIGO disproves that, however

>>8666973