Yes yes, We got beat.
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There is an xkcd for this:
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Cool! I wrote the Wikipedia article on Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns as well as bios for most of the authors. I’m quite familiar with all that work. I subscribe to Gardner’s multiple intelligences model, but I do believe that whatever IQ measures is a crude but useful tool for certain kinds of better-than-chance predicting.
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I am of the opinion that US liberal ranges from European conservative to communist. Basically anything that isn’t authoritarian reactionary goes there.
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Politics. They had a great sub-blog focusing on politics. HamNo’s polemics and chronicling of USA’s slide into fascism is the only reason I still visit.
Boing Boing readers among web’s most educated
I wouldn’t be too proud. We’re only two steps above the knuckle-dragging troglodytes of Scott Adam’s audience.
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Well yes, but those are two pretty big steps.
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Totally agree! I was too extreme in my dismissal of IQ. I share your belief that it’s a useful tool within certain limits. Sorry for getting on my soapbox a little. I like getting that information out there since a lot of people don’t know about MI.
Hope it’s okay if I link to your WP article, it’s exemplary. Thank you for being one of the underappreciated editors that maintains that invaluable resource!
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I’ve been to college 3 times, for three different majors. I’ve never finished a degree.
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majored in dropped out REPRESENT!
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It makes me feel better about it to remember that Mr. Bells never finished HIS, either. It was the mid-90’s, programmers were in ridiculous demand, he got hired out of school halfway through and never went back. He’s spent almost 30 years working as a programmer at a high salary without so much as an AA.
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Yeah, for me after changing majors/schools then right about the same time the university councilor said you are burnt out take a break, figured my transfer was effed up at graduation audit, and then got a full time job at the help desk for the university (I was a student worker as lead for the PC labs). I took more classes cause hey CHEAP but never graduated and then moved to Seattle and ended up doing desktop/dos server support as temp worker at Boeing then became a proper server support guy… and yes it was the mid 90’s. And I wasn’t even studying for an IT type degree.
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Those steps are so big Neil Armstrong has a speech ready for when he gets off the lander.
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Oh no, I am in the same group as people who read Jezebel, Dilbert and Celebitchy!
delete this site pls.
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