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Given 30 years and extreme dedication, do you think a 90 IQ person could become a physicist?
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Given 30 years and extreme dedication, do you think a 90 IQ person could become a physicist?
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Very impressive mental gymnastics to avoid answering the question. Best I’ve seen.
Why would I answer a question that is ill-posed and absurd? No one spends 30 years on physics without any meaningful progress trajectory.
You don't define "physicist". Is this getting a PhD? Then it's very lax. Or making real breakthroughs? Then it's very strict.
You don't define "can". Do you mean it deterministically? Then 150 IQ people can't do it either. Or do you mean it has nonzero probability? Then what about 0.01% chances? What if you're the one outlier?
You don't define the starting point. Is this at age 20? Then it's probably too late. At age 0? Then how do you define "90 IQ" in a newborn?
Also, the "working hard" framing of your original question completely misses that hard work isn't something a person can decide to put up for 30 years in abstraction from social, economic, and emotional constraints. Put simply, the key limitation for most STEM student's cognitive development is that they're unwilling or unable to commit to a 30 years non-dysfunctional learning effort.
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Of course not.
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Given 30 years and extreme dedication, do you think a 90 IQ person could become a physicist?
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Jun 13
“We can all learn anything with the right teacher.”
This implies 90 IQ students and 145 IQ students can learn the same material (Advanced Calculus) if they have the right teacher.
As I said many believe this.
Jun 13
Things hereditarians can't grasp, in no particular order:
1. Rigor
2. Logic
3. Gaussians
4. Asymmetry
5. Fact-checking
I'm being presented an unquantified statement about **learning** with a teacher (presumably in primary or secondary school) as evidence of the belief that 90 IQ people can **do** **research level math** 🤦
Bonus:
- indirect journalistic mention of uncited source, from uncontextualized excerpt of paywalled article... @Hitchslap1, did you do your homework of checking full article and confirming relevance?
- from my understanding this is about "gifted" vs normal... Not "ungifted"
- by the way, 90 IQ is at about the 25 percentile of population... I do believe that 75% of the pop can learn anything highschool level (and basic college math) with the right teachers.
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Jun 13
Reputation destruction and triangulation are common tactics used by narcissists. Know the signs.
They always accuse you of what they are doing. It causes confusion, plus, you can’t complain about what they are doing to anyone because they’ve already poisoned the well against you.
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Jun 13
Some claim, “Nobody believes 90 IQ people can do research level math.” Yet there it is, published in @NYMag.
“We can all learn anything with the right teacher.”
It’s a fatuous belief held by many.
Jun 6
Please document the *many*.
And of course don't link posts such as this one, referencing rare IQs "measured" below 90, which any educated person would agree is within the expected statistical background noise.
x.com/krichard121212/status/…
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Jun 12
Spotting a narcissist early could literally save your life. I’m not joking.
What other tactics are employed by narcissists?
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Jun 12
What’s one food you could eat every day and never get tired of?
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Jun 12
IQ deniers are some of the strangest people on the planet. Imagine spending your whole life in complete denial of reality.
It’s genuinely astounding.
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Jun 12
Socialism goes against human nature. It punishes people who are ambitious and rewards people who are not.
The entitlement of socialists is truly wild.
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Jun 12
Fair point Charles. I’ve been neglecting my evolutionary psychology knowledge.
It really does take a lot to turn men off.
Jun 11
Hitchslap: Surprisingly? We’re talking about guys here.
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Hitchslap: Surprisingly? We’re talking about guys here.
Jun 11
Male dominance boosts sexual & physical attractiveness to women but tanks overall likability.
Surprisingly female dominance neither helped nor hurt their appeal to men.
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Serial killers tend to have slightly lower than average IQs. The high IQ serial killer trope is largely media driven.
Jun 11
It is also true that the majority of serial killers had a high IQ.
I would say that people with high IQs tend to be more efficient at doing evil as well.
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Male dominance boosts sexual & physical attractiveness to women but tanks overall likability.
Surprisingly female dominance neither helped nor hurt their appeal to men.
Jun 11
Bir erkeğin baskın (dominant) olması, kadınlar için cinsel çekiciliğini artırıyor; ancak beğenilirliğini düşürüyor.
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Jun 11
The United States has a homicide rate of 5.76 per 100,000 people.
Japan has a homicide rate of 0.23 per 100,000 people.
What can best explain this discrepancy?
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