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Whenever I say "men are taller than women on average," someone will respond, "I know a woman who's taller than most men." Why do people have so much trouble with statistical averages?- Whenever I say "Pit bulls cause the most fatalities per capita," someone will respond, "I know a Labrador that bit someone on the leg." Why do people have so much trouble admitting pit bulls are dangerous?
- The final level of high IQ is just pretending you don’t know anything to make your life easier.
- In 2005, verbal analogies were removed from the SAT. This was partly due to higher failure rates among minority students. Do you think verbal analogies are culturally biased?
- “If there is nothing that someone with an IQ below 83 can do in the Army, what makes you think there is something they can do in the general population?” - Jordan Peterson I’ve yet to hear a good answer to this.
- Many have no idea what 130 IQ actually means. Below is a graph of college majors by average IQ and gender ratio. Physics students are typically in this range.
- I have designed a one question IQ test. Are men stronger than women on average?
- Most geniuses throughout history have been male. Female IQ tends to cluster at the average, and male IQ at the extremes. Camille Paglia had it right: “There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.”
- First born children tend to have a slightly higher IQ than their siblings. The exact reason remains unclear. What can best explain this?
- This genuine spatial ability task shows bottles filled with water. The bottles have been tilted. Which bottle correctly shows how the waterline would look?
- Whenever I say "First born children are smarter on average," someone will respond, "Not true my second born is the smartest." Why do so many people have trouble with statistical averages?
- People with a 100 IQ, who think they have a 130 IQ, are probably the most annoying people on the planet.
