Not only alive, but jogged away unaided.

I don't know how the fuck that happened but I can only hope this is the begining of a new era of warriors training to headbutt robots to death.

The burning itching is why they can't sleep at night.

Mind you "Family and family who took it in good faith" is a significantly higher category of innocence than "social media influencer who took Aus government money to shill the jab to unnecessarily young people" I don't know for sure if she was one of the ones who got paid, but that's a category that exists and she had a high likelihood of being in.

Probably wise to leave the option of returning open in case the secret service manage to pull off a more permanent "whoops" moment on Trump.

"Rip and tear, until it is done" -trans advocate surgeons

Yeah, 'g' is what IQ wishes it was but couldn't quite be.

Turns out it still can't be easily pinned down as a single objective number, best we get is more of a coefficient. After taking a bunch of different cognitive tests, weighting the results and integrating things down a level or two you can try to figure out how much those results were down to generalized cognitive aptitude and how much was specialised/learned talent for each task.

CHC cognitive testing (edit- changed from CAS, I mixed up my three letter cognitive test acronyms, -0.03g for me. You can also use the CAS2 battery of tests to calculate 'g' too, but they're against the idea that 'g' is a single constant so it seems kind of rude to do so 😂) is one battery of tests that has been around for a while that doesn't purport to be an "IQ test" but is comprehensive enough to be used as a base to try and calculate 'g' from. But that's the thing, the tests themselves stop at giving you the results of multiple independent cognitive performance tests, the 'g' calculating is something else afterwards.

The 'g' is only semi-dependant on the test results, you can get the different 'g' results from the same answers just by changing how you weight each test result, and they're all debatably plausible. 'g' is supposed to be the essence of general intelligence, it is not learned or specialized, it is something structural and rock steady across all tasks. The hallmark of a good formula for 'g' interpretation is that it is even more tightly heritable than traditional IQ values. But it's also kind of an academic distinction, good IQ values still track very closely with 'g' and the only diagnostic advantage of 'g' is potentially differentiating between edge cases of someone with high 'g' and low learned ability across almost all cognitive tasks and someone with moderate 'g' and high learned ability across almost all cognitive tasks, but the real world problem solving ability of both individuals is going to be comparable except on one or two types of task.

IQ tests only need to be proctored so that they are verified. If you're not so deluded you'll let yourself cheat on time or take questions you've seen before you can administer your own test with just a little discipline and a stopwatch, but the result is only useful for yourself (and anyone who trusts your objectivity greatly)

The hardest part is finding a good test, which have to be taken blind, so you have to take the whole test first and then evaluate if it was a good test, ideally before you receive/calculate your results to avoid bias.

Plus IQ is a pretty dated term for g, a measure of general intelligence, the holy grail of semi-quantifiable transferable capability across a wide range of cognitive tasks that the layperson intuits as natural intelligence. The most state of the art batteries of tests don't typically bill themselves as IQ tests anymore.

There's a pretty big stigma to just posting your IQ online. It's unverifiable so it's pointless and it can easily make you look kind of like a douche. Impressively enough that even in a place where people regularly get called subhuman bigots many are still are reluctant to do it.

I was obtuse about it but I did give a value to mine too. Plus realistically if you're talking about casual measurements not a specific testing methodology giving an upper-lower range is probably more helpful than giving a single concrete number. Even if you trust it isn't completely made up you still don't know who's listing their highest/lowest/average result.

That and there's endless debate about what constitutes a valid and accurate IQ test, so unless someone really likes to geek out about the minutiae of attempts to quantify human cognitive function they probably just want to sidestep all that noise.

Smart smarter not harder :templetap:

Questions directed at "intelligent people" always feel like iamverysmart bait just waiting for cringe. Defining yourself as a smart person is like defining yourself as atheist, if that alone has given you a sense of superiority it can get kind of embarrassing pretty quickly. I don't believe intelligence is the sole measure of importance of a person or even myself, and then IQ tests only demonstrate an even narrower application of intelligence, but I do typically score 2.5-3 standard deviations above average in IQ tests.

you pick up any book, read it, and understand the gist with minimal repetition?

Short answer, more or less yes, as long as it's not heavily reliant on foreign concepts not defined or inferable within the book itself.

Can you infer solid and accurate conclusions based on a small amount of evidence?

Sometimes. Some situations just need more data to understand accurately, sometimes you can come up with creative ways to get there with less evidence, sometimes you miss those creative solutions and only realise them after you brute forced it with more info gathering. Creative problem solving isn't quite as consistent as solving a straightforward logic problem, just being smart doesn't mean you're guaranteed a eureka moment.

Is any subject or discipline up for grabs or do you have to have a keen interest in a particular field in order to flourish?

Motivation and conscientiousness are separate from intelligence and no field is completely effortless to flourish in no matter how smart you are, so yeah interest is necessary. But switching lanes is definitely easier if you're more intelligent.

What is something you are able to do that you know is because of your intelligence -- the proverbial 1,000 pound deadlift of the brain

Interdisciplinary work is definitely the realm where having a high general intelligence has the greatest advantage. Intelligence alone is not enough to just automatically make it work, you still need the right foundational knowledge of each discipline to make it work. Hence despite being old enough that I'm not as plastic and my straight logic processing speeds are slowing slightly, I find interdisciplinary work easier than ever, as my repertoire of foundational knowledge has continued to expand. But trying to introduce concepts from other subjects and synthesizing that with knowledge from our own discipline to solve a problem is definitely where I start losing some of my more studious than naturally intelligent colleagues.

It's hard to imagine anyone's self perceived IQ is just a totally independent guess at this point, I figure almost everyone has done one of the free online tests at this point. Be they of dubious quality or not, it's probably going to influence your perception at least a little.

Even without that tag, the main character looks really fuckin' gay. Easy flag

If I ever end up quadriplegic, I'd be game. Not much left to lose at that point and way more to gain.

Otherwise, yeah that's a huge nope for me thanks.

For regular consumers yeah, CS:GO is gone. But Valve might have hooked neuralink up with a custom build for this, and that build might be older than the CS2 update.

I sexually identify as a Fat Man.

I mean most people don't seem to read more than just the title and first sentence before reporting. This is one of those rare instances instances where I'm still assuming incompetence over malice.

Nah. They know there's way too much resistance to direct subscription models in customers. You either need a monopoly (xblive or PSN subscriptions) or a life consuming juggernaut of a game (WoW/FFXIV). Everyone else knows they get way more custom with a subscriptionless but infinitely monetized incentivization model.

They might want to start making you pay for the anti cheat somehow, but it won't be a mandatory subscription.

I guess it is weirdly phrased almost as if something has actually happened rather than just Lethn being Lethn.

The old ball and chain analogy works on a societal scale too. They are by far the greatest shackle white men have to contend with in trying to achieve any meaningful change.

Yeah, 61 ain't bad, but for a Japanese lady that is relatively young.

It takes her a minute or two to sound out the letters to figure out which one it is.

It's the latest Charli XCX (shallow feminist musician with such lyrical gems as "I crash my car into the bridge, I don't care, I love it") album name. Has all the aging cat ladies in denial reliving their lost youth and calling it "brat summer"

Can't have any words with an R in them in the stonework. Everyone knows hard Rs are secret nazi codes.

Half of them are the useless busybodies who weren't even good enough to pass the incredibly low bar of "qualify as a teacher"

I've been playing with their own NPC programming techniques and deliberately typoing it Lfag when it relates to them, just to try and subliminal message the rare ones that still have an internal monologue.

And that right there is an lfag if I ever saw one.