tag:dreamwidth.org,2019-12-23:3596207 Kyle Kyle 2021-05-13T19:45:58Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2019-12-23:3596207:4815 2021-05-13T19:24:48Z 2021-05-13T19:45:58Z public 0 <a href="https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-swindle-f131c101ba39">An article</a> by Nassim Nicholas Taleb about the fallacy of IQ testing got me thinking of the way we measure intelligence, and perhaps more importantly, stupidity. What do those terms even mean? Can we come up with a useful heuristic for determining where people fit? And even if we can, do we need to? How do we manage our decisions with regards to spotting and dealing with the stupid and the smart?<br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">(&nbsp;</b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://kylec.dreamwidth.org/4815.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=kylec&ditemid=4815" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments