Just to show, in conclusion to my article “IQ is a pseudoscientific swindle”, that psychologists arguing with it proved that IQ doesn’t explain up to 99.5% of things it is supposed to explain. It’s not my data, but theirs that they did not interpret correctly.
Tag: IQ
Nassim Nicholas Taleb Expands on His Critique of IQ and Statistical Misuse
[Twitter | X] Nassim Nicholas Taleb Reiterates His Critique: IQ as Pseudoscience and Its Role in Race Science
[YouTube] Correlation measures are misused in the presence of nonlinearities
A VERY SIMPLIFIED TUTORIAL (VERY SHORT)
Correlation measures are misused in the presence of nonlinearities.
(How a measure of unintelligence can give the illusion of high correlation with performance.)
Correlation measures are not supposed to be used in the presence of nonlinearities. When 2 variables correlate half the time (in a symmetric way around the mean), correlation will not be 50% but will show ~90%. Part of debunking IQ studies. If IQ works for disabilities but does not correlate with success, there is an illusion of correlation because of the biases in the metric.
Correlation is not Additive with Some Consequences for Subsamples
How the correlation of subsections will be lower than the total (in absolute value). With implications for “empirical” research.
Link to PDF – https://www.dropbox.com/s…
How Much Data Do You Need? A Pre-asymptotic Metric for Fat-tailedness
Free copy of the paper – https://arxiv.org/pdf/1802.05495.pdf
Nassim’s “IQ” Thread
“IQ” measures an inferior form of intelligence, stripped of 2nd order effects, meant to select paper shufflers, obedient IYIs. 1- When someone asks you a question in REAL LIFE, you focus first on “WHY is he asking me that?”, which slows down. (Fat Tony vs Dr John)
Link to Thread: https://twitter.com/nntaleb…