Having taken the WWI era Army IQ test that was the basis for some of this, I
can verify that a significant amount of it seemed to be education based
(questions regarding brands of motor engines and whatnot probably posed
issues for immigrants who'd rarely seen and never driven cars, for example).
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
American Jews tested below average on Army intelligence tests conducted
around the turn of the last century (1900)
I suspect this was not a pure IQ test but had a bias towards education, and
at that time, American Jews, especially recent immigrants, many not have
On 12/1/2003 Wei Dai wrote:
I argue that (a) can be an equilibrium. We are rather smart in some areas,
but the mechanisms in us that allow that are not up to the task of faking
being dumb in other areas - we are actually dumb in those other
areas. This
is/was an equilibrium because people
In a message dated 12/7/03 12:40:04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Your story does have a certain plausibility. But you'd need to argue that
the huge increase in IQ that has been documented during this last century
isn't really an increase in intelligence. And doing that makes it harder
to take
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 11:18:21AM -0500, Robin Hanson wrote:
That and the difficulty of creating intelligence.
It can't be the latter, because the intelligence that already exist was
not selected for. Consider again the fact that Jews have an average IQ
that is about one standard deviation
On 11/25/2003, Wei Dai wrote:
Besides the well-known costs of higher intelligence (e.g., more energy
use, bigger heads causing more difficult births), it seems that being
smart can be a disadvantage when playing some non-zero-sum games. Here is
one example. How often do these games occur in real
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 04:47:17PM -0500, Robin Hanson wrote:
There certainly do seem to be some situations in which it can pay not be
seen as too clever by half. But of course there are many other situations
in which being clever pays well. So unless the first set of situations are
more
Given that there is significant existing variation in human intelligence,
it's curious that we are not all much smarter than we actually are.
Besides the well-known costs of higher intelligence (e.g., more energy
use, bigger heads causing more difficult births), it seems that being
smart can be a
