/sci/ - Science & Math

put your open hand over your face real quick

>>9324563
ouch

>>9324532
>and does IQ actually mean anything

Rank everyone on their intelligence
Force them into a Gaussian curve of mean 100 and standard deviation 15
You have your arbitrary as fuck number

It affects how well you can enjoy Rick & Morty.

>>9324532
The two most popular standard IQ tests are the Stanford–Binet and the Cattell. Both have evolved quite a bit over the years. They used to ask racial and even religious questions, but these days they've been boiled down to pattern recognition and number memory. The spatial pattern recognition involves matching blocks (pic related) to an image under a timer, while the number memory just involves reciting back increasingly larger set of random numbers. There's some variations with cards with objects and story sequences, but that's about it.

It is useful for detecting learning disabilities (SE and SED needs), and for tracking the effectiveness of large scale educational institutions. It is not useful for detecting differences between nominal individuals or between people of radically different cultures. In twin studies, IQ can vary radically with profession, and certain professions that involve a lot of number memory or puzzle solving tend to have much higher IQ than others. There was, for instance, a study on phone operators in the 70's, and they all scored 98th percentile or higher - even the black ones from lower class families. At what time of day the test is taken, how long since the subject last ate, the age and sex of the person administering the test, or simply playing a puzzle solving video game just before the test, can all have drastic effects on end results. So, while it has some potential uses, it isn't real reliable.

Core problem being it's psychology. Not surprisingly, this is the only situation where /sci/ will try to sell psychology as a real science, because, well, /pol/ is among the most popular boards in the domain, and they like to use various studies (most often flawed ones) to prove that niggers are stupid.

As if you need a test for that... There's plenty of more objective methods and statistics to prove that, but, well, these kids will use any evidence they can, and they rarely look real closely at the validity of any of it.

>>9324616
>the niggers i met were all dumb
muuuuhhhhh anecdotes
>iq tests show niggers to be dumb
muuuuhhhh unscientific. its a question of nuture *tips fedora*
>but experiments show that iq is up to 70% genetic
Stop It! back to >pol!!!!!
lmao trumptards amirgt bois

>>9324532
because everyone here is so insecure about themselves and have no interesting traits, so they confine to a digit and believe that they're actually not useless. (which is not a credible merit in real life for proving your worth)

>>9324837
wow buddy, you sure showed him by providing good counter arguments!

>>9324593
bullshit

Because 4chan is a website (mostly) for retards who love to make a dick waving contest about everything.

IQ is good to use for dick waving contest.

If people on /sci/ actually had big dicks, they would have an ACTUAL dick waving contest and wouldn't give a shit about IQ.

>>9324532
why don't you read the research like everyone else does?

>>9326386
too bad 6 inch hard dick 127 iq tho