Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Warning - Serious 'sudo' Flaw Compromises Security Date: 22 Oct 2025 05:19:51 GMT Lines: 48 Message-ID: References: <10cios3$25sim$2@dont-email.me> <10cj667$29n96$5@dont-email.me> <10cjf5m$2cnh5$2@dont-email.me> <10cl5qu$2q6c4$12@dont-email.me> <10cmkps$39hde$2@dont-email.me> <10cmt5g$3bg6j$1@dont-email.me> <-ZCcnbpqnNEEkHL1nZ2dnZfqnPadnZ2d@giganews.com> <10ctpvt$17cip$1@dont-email.me> <2smdnb0rA9AEnG71nZ2dnZfqnPqdnZ2d@giganews.com> <10cvpdp$1nij3$8@dont-email.me> <10d67f7$3fqu7$3@dont-email.me> <10d7h1v$3p9iq$4@dont-email.me> <10d937f$90v4$2@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net RWqudBvzwvFnjPPWSjxQkQA0fKBa4/DyVPAGxnxwt67v0j009g Cancel-Lock: sha1:5gmnzfcwAQcvdHyPEcn+7Wgwy7A= sha256:DVrtvfuOwjj6ucO7NcINcWPIGNq6UMdLSP5Yn3fuWK4= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:76498 On Tue, 21 Oct 2025 22:58:56 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: > On Tue, 21 Oct 2025 09:42:39 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > >>> On Mon, 20 Oct 2025 20:52:55 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: >>> >>>> “IQ” is crap. >> >> [IQ] measures something. > > The “Q” stands for “quotient”. It’s a number from a division, multiplied > by 100, so the number 100 stands for “normal”. > > The two numbers being divided are your so-called “mental” age (derived > from the IQ test) and your actual age. > > So, somebody who is, say, 40 years old, with a genius-level IQ of 150, > must have a “mental” age of 40 * 150 / 100 = 60. Does that make sense to > you? > > That’s why “IQ” is crap. You're about 100 years behind the curve. Binet and Simon developed a test for French school children. There were tasks that could be performed by the 75% of the 8, 9, 10, etc year olds. If Child X completed the 10 year old tasks and stumbled at the 11 year old tasks, his mental age was 10 regardless of his chronological age. The test was designed to filter out the retards. It was revise several times in the early 1900's to include tests for older children and to better classify the slow. Stern devised the ratio to normalize the scores and coined the term. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ William_Stern_(psychologist)#Intelligence_quotient The Stanford Binet was an American revision and there quite a few other tests like the WAIS but they are scores like a SAT normalized on the infamous bell curve, not any indication of mental age particularly in adults. I was tested when I was four because my mother was trying to enroll me in kindergarten which had an age requirement of five. I talked to the nice man, did some little tasks, and wound up in first grade with the six year olds. Skipping kindergarten probably fucked up my socialization and it was a real pain in the ass being 2 years younger than everyone else through your entire school career. All I'll say about it is I've only met one self-proclaimed Mensa member and that was at an AA meeting.