Comments on: Signaling Beats Race-IQ For Controversy

By: GlenStef

GlenStef — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:12:15 +0000

http://www.overcomingbias.com – da best. Keep it going!
GlenStef

By: Granite26

Granite26 — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:12:38 +0000

Then I got nothing

By: Overcoming Bias : Do The Smart Help More?

Overcoming Bias : Do The Smart Help More? — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:03:30 +0000

[...] might also wonder: do smart folks tend to help others more, relative to their productivity? Last week Linda Gottfredson and Garett Jones surprised me by claiming that this was so, saying that smart [...]

By: Noumenon

Noumenon — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:45:10 +0000

Thanks for the link anyway.

I wanted to hear more about the stupidity of the medium IQ too.

By: Overcoming Bias : Improved Cores Unwanted

Overcoming Bias : Improved Cores Unwanted — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:00:44 +0000

[...] Cores Unwanted By Robin Hanson · July 3, 2009 9:00 am · Discuss · « Prev [...]

By: Douglas Knight

Douglas Knight — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:27:30 +0000

I think the standard survey by Gottfredson is "Why g matters" but that might not be the most direct answer.

By: Rafal Smigrodzki

Rafal Smigrodzki — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:58:49 +0000

“how surprisingly stupid are the mid IQ”

Can you blog some on that, or maybe link to Gottfredson’s talk, if available? This could shed some light on the practical meaning of IQ not just as a way of expressing relative ranking but rather in the context of absolute performance at tasks that a high-IQ person may deem important.

By: Robin Hanson

Robin Hanson — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:38:17 +0000

Actually I was the last speaker.

By: TGGP

TGGP — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:33:34 +0000

Garret Jones has written about just that:
http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2007/06/garett_jones_a_very_intelligen.cfm

By: Eric Johnson

Eric Johnson — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:25:54 +0000

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24758518

The controversy over the eligibility of this athlete with congenitally defective lower legs is interesting re sports enhancements. Though he would doubtless be pretty fast on natural legs, his artificial legs seem rather likely to be better than the real thing.