His core point is that IQ’s correlation with anything is upwardly biased by specific performance on the low end, i.e. detecting the incompetency of people who would be bad at any test or task given to them; this creates a correlation with any measured outcome that disappears when they are excluded. He says it is misleading to describe correlation when a distribution is asymmetric.
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Taleb took one of those online IQ tests and scored room temperature, so now we get to read this
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To quote Stephen Hawking:
“People who boast about their IQ are losers”
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My main takeaway from the article.
His core point is that IQ’s correlation with anything is upwardly biased by specific performance on the low end, i.e. detecting the incompetency of people who would be bad at any test or task given to them; this creates a correlation with any measured outcome that disappears when they are excluded. He says it is misleading to describe correlation when a distribution is asymmetric.
Taleb took one of those online IQ tests and scored room temperature, so now we get to read this