/sci/ - Science & Math

>>3331339
Good post.
Btw, I corrected some people saying that there weren't any Christians in China during the 13th century. I am not saying anything else. Just saying that Christians were there.

Not implying anything

A tribute to me? How cute.

IQ test results (from the Binet or WAIS) are usually pretty good predictors of your general intelligence. On WAIS, the GAI (general abilities index) is a stronger predictor of g as it omits direct measures of executive function from the IQ reading. There are many disorders that can impair executive functions and not intelligence. Processing speed (in particular) and working memory indexes are both not correlated highly enough to g in populations of high intelligence (especially the gifted population) to be considered in general intelligence.

On to another point. The subtests of IQ tests are statistically correlated very well with one another (WAIS vocabulary is 78% correlated with full scale IQ, arithmetic 74%, matrix reasoning 61%, general knowledge 74%, etc). Because of this and neurological data, intelligence is often considered to be a single variable.

A test must correlate with WAIS or Binet at 80% (most strong tests correlates at 84%+)or higher to even be considered a proper test of general intelligence.

IQ is correlated relatively highly with various socioeconomic and academic factors. Such as GPA(30-50%), work performance (40-50%), income, personality, birth rate, age of birth, dropout rates, etc.

Any other questions?

William Shockley had he IQ tested twice. He scored 125 and 126.

Him and Luis Alvarez failed to qualify for the Terman Study as children (IQ 135+).

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

Shockley co-invented the transistor, for which all three were awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics

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

>"Luis Alvarez (1911–1988) was one of the most brilliant and productive experimental physicists of the twentieth century."

If Shockley became the "father of the electronic age", you can at least be highly successful.

/sci/, I want to start a cool thread. I don't know as much as I'd like to about chemistry. I know the rules and the concepts and stuff, but none of the applied blow-shit-up stuff. I want a thread about cool chemical reactions you can perform with household (or at least legal to obtain) chemicals.