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Why can’t we talk about IQ?
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| August 9, 2013
| Jason Richwine
Posted on 08/09/2013 3:06:33 PM PDT by reaganaut1
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To: reaganaut1
Why Can't We Talk About IQ? I might not give the answer that you want me to.
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posted on
08/09/2013 3:08:27 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
(If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
To: reaganaut1
One reason a college degree has become a necessary qualification for so many jobs is that the lawyers and the P.C. crowd have all but outlawed employers giving intelligence tests. If someone actually gets a college degree you can assume they have the intelligence to do most jobs.
To: reaganaut1
Didn’t the author of this piece used to be Wonkette? Or maybe still is for all I know. And she wants us to take HER seriously about the usefulness of IQ’s? Really?
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posted on
08/09/2013 3:13:19 PM PDT
by
SE Mom
(Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
To: reaganaut1
Because we are not all created equal. Blacks are pretty much a standard deviation below whites.
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posted on
08/09/2013 3:13:38 PM PDT
by
TheThirdRuffian
(RINOS like Romney, McCain, Dole are sure losers. No more!)
To: reaganaut1
Why Can't We Talk About IQ? It offends the stupid.
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posted on
08/09/2013 3:13:55 PM PDT
by
IllumiNaughtyByNature
($1.84 - The price of a gallon of gas on Jan. 20th, 2009.)
To: SE Mom
My mistake- NOT the writer of this piece- he refrees to hr in it.
My IQ takes long weekends off in August.
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posted on
08/09/2013 3:15:05 PM PDT
by
SE Mom
(Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
To: SE Mom
Cox was at Wonkette. Richwine, the author of this essay, “resigned” from Heritage.
To: reaganaut1
I read or maybe saw on TV that the most accurate predictor of future success is IQ. Achievement tests were not as good but still a good way to measure it.
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posted on
08/09/2013 3:16:14 PM PDT
by
yarddog
(Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
To: reaganaut1
...same reason you don’t get to see the Wonderlic results
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posted on
08/09/2013 3:16:21 PM PDT
by
Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: reaganaut1
We live in a culture where the left and the media fight for equality.
That includes the “right” to be a completely ignorant moron.
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posted on
08/09/2013 3:17:49 PM PDT
by
Zeneta
(No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.)
To: reaganaut1
Why can’t we talk specifically about g-factor, the part of intellect that IQ testing is supposed to measure? And what’s wrong with linking it to race? It’s all statistics, but statistics can be very explanatory in the large, while being irrelevant in individual cases.
To: IllumiNaughtyByNature
Huh?
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posted on
08/09/2013 3:18:45 PM PDT
by
EEGator
To: TheThirdRuffian
Why does your graph stop at 20 and omit an entire region to the left? Referring to the Jeantel region...
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posted on
08/09/2013 3:22:45 PM PDT
by
C210N
(When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
To: EEGator
that pic is hilarious. what is it from?
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posted on
08/09/2013 3:23:37 PM PDT
by
IllumiNaughtyByNature
($1.84 - The price of a gallon of gas on Jan. 20th, 2009.)
To: yarddog
I read another article that stated a very good predictor of future success is the number of bookcases in a childs home.
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posted on
08/09/2013 3:23:53 PM PDT
by
Sergio
(An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
To: All
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posted on
08/09/2013 3:24:09 PM PDT
by
musicman
(Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
To: reaganaut1
cause it's racisss....
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posted on
08/09/2013 3:26:29 PM PDT
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: reaganaut1
IQ is a metric of such dubiousness that almost no serious educational researcher uses it anymore, the Guardians Ana Marie Cox wrote back in May. I don't know anything about Ana Marie Cox, but the above statement is sophistry at the least. I've been working in this field for 16 years, and we have never stopped using IQ as a means of measuring aptitude and estimating success, and there are no plans to do so in the future.
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posted on
08/09/2013 3:29:05 PM PDT
by
SoldierDad
(Proud dad of an Army Soldier who has survived 24 months of Combat deployment.)
To: IllumiNaughtyByNature
It offends the stupid.
No, it shines the light on all the MBA managers who should really be flipping burgers...........
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