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| Subject | Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution |
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| References | (17 earlier) <D513A5FD.9EB1F%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> <op.yyq8bjkijs98qf@red.lan> <D517EAEF.9F311%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> <op.yyzwyhibjs98qf@red.lan> <D51E1C40.A0726%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> |
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.sys.mac.system, alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.cellular-phone-tech |
| From | Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> |
| Message-ID | <OO4KA.75055$5a6.59922@fx29.iad> (permalink) |
| Organization | Newshosting.com - Highest quality at a great price! www.newshosting.com |
| Date | 2017-04-20 11:52 -0400 |
Cross-posted to 4 groups.
On 2017-04-20 11:05, Snit wrote: > On 4/20/17, 6:26 AM, in article op.yyzwyhibjs98qf@red.lan, "James Wilkinson > Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> wrote: > >>>>>> JWS has a limited range of of perceptions, sensory, emotional, and >>>>>> intellectual. He's unaware of how little he knows, but insists that his >>>>>> superior intelligence validates all his opinions. I don't believe anything >>>>>> he says about his brain power, but even if he has a high IQ, it's useless >>>>>> if it has nothing to work with. >>>>>> >>>>> IQ is correlated well with how well you will do on other IQ tests. Not much >>>>> else. :) >>>> >>>> It's a damn good guide. >>> >>> To what? >> >> Intelligence - the clue is in the name "intelligence quota". It's "intelligence quotient", a ratio. It's the ratio of your score to the normalised score for your demographic. It has little general validity. > And what do you think that correlates well with? IQ tests correlate well with IQ tests: you tend to get the same score over time, assuming the test is normalised to your age group. IQ tests have been renormalised many times. Nowadays, an average US adult would score around 120 on a test from 50-60 years ago. Related tests (SAT, for example), have even less general validity than IQ scores. BTW, all objective tests correlate very well with themselves, and all are confounded by factors the test makers have some trouble compensating for. It's one of the reasons that a sizeable proportion of first diagnoses of illness are wrong: around 30% in the emergency department, and typically around half that at the family doctor's. One thing nobody seems to pay much attention to is that the meaning of the numbers is not objective. A 70% score on an objective test may be Good (1st reading test on a text), Pass (2nd reading test on the same text some time later), or Fail (3rd and final reading test). Eg, I'd want my surgeon to demonstrate 100% knowledge of where my bits and pieces are. The Pass on Ontario's written driving test is 80%. The fixation on numbers as "objective" is a pernicious superstition. -- Best, Wolf K https://kirkwood40.blogspot.com "What good is it having lower taxes when you can’t drink the water?”
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Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-12 09:38 -0700
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-15 21:53 +0100
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-15 15:21 -0700
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-20 14:26 +0100
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-20 08:05 -0700
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-20 16:11 +0100
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-20 08:22 -0700
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-20 16:35 +0100
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-20 08:49 -0700
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-20 17:21 +0100
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-20 09:37 -0700
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-20 18:19 +0100
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2017-04-20 10:55 -0500
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-20 17:21 +0100
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-20 09:44 -0700
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-20 18:19 +0100
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-20 10:35 -0700
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Rene Lamontagne <rlamont@shaw.ca> - 2017-04-20 14:01 -0500
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-20 20:09 +0100
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Rene Lamontagne <rlamont@shaw.ca> - 2017-04-20 14:47 -0500
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-20 21:04 +0100
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Rene Lamontagne <rlamont@shaw.ca> - 2017-04-20 15:31 -0500
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-20 22:04 +0100
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Sprang <spring@sprung.invalid> - 2017-04-20 21:08 +0000
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Rene Lamontagne <rlamont@shaw.ca> - 2017-04-20 17:06 -0500
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-20 23:16 +0100
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Rene Lamontagne <rlamont@shaw.ca> - 2017-04-20 17:23 -0500
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-20 15:26 -0700
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Rene Lamontagne <rlamont@shaw.ca> - 2017-04-20 17:29 -0500
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-20 15:18 -0700
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-20 12:34 -0700
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2017-04-20 11:56 -0400
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-20 17:22 +0100
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2017-04-20 11:52 -0400
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-20 09:03 -0700
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