Damn. You aren't really supposed to say the quiet part out loud fam, I feel like "race realism" is pretty frowned upon in almost every social setting outside of very smelly people...
Obviously having generations of people put into bad schools and not be provided opportunities to have "good jobs" will lead to you not being able to take an IQ test well. IQ tests basically just examine how much analytical reasoning you learned in K-12. Like, any gray haired black person in America will remember having actual Jim Crow laws persecute them and it was literally legal to discriminate people for housing in America until 1977. It will take a massive amount of time to heal those social wounds that were inflicted on our fellow humans.
> IQ tests basically just examine how much analytical reasoning you learned in K-12.
Actually IQ is highly genetic, and the amount it’s inherited actually goes up as one ages (meaning that while education and upbringing can influence IQ temporarily, genetics eventually dominates).
Top 10 Replicated Findings From Behavioral Genetics
If you do this kind of research on a population where education has been less and less exclusive over the generations then surely you will find out that a score the correlates highly with education will correlate more among family members among your older population (where education was only available to richer families) then the younger (where education is accessible to the broader public).
This trend should persist as long as the quality of education remains unevenly distributed. You should also find very little to no heritability before or at the start of formal education (say age 10 and younger), and then heritability should increase as the discrepancies in the quality of education between families materialize.
To summarize this effect (called Wilson Effect) says nothing about how “genetic” IQ is, only that it correlates with the quality of education and that quality of education is not evenly distributed between families.
PS. As a manifestation on how insignificant this effect is in the scientific literature, Wilson Effect doesn’t even have a Wikipedia article, referring you to [the Heritability of IQ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ) which references a paper about this effect only once in the beginning summary.
The researchers aren’t stupid, obviously they try to control for things like schooling.
Therefore, the strongest evidence for heritability of IQ (and the fact that it increases with age) comes from twin studies, where twins were separated at birth (by adoption).
As a fan of psychology, psychometrics are really frustrating. IMO they are given way too much weight in pop-science. There are a number of subfields within psychology that are doing amazing work, building out theories of behavior, cognition, etc. that builds well on top of each other, inspire theories in different sub-field etc. But psychometrics fit nowhere. Personality types and IQ does not explain behavior nearly to the same extent as simple environmental manipulation.
A couple of examples: People are likelier to cheat on a test if there is a visible cheater in the room regardless of how you score on a personality test. And you are on average quicker to spot a red square among red circles if you have been primed to spot a red square in a previous round, regardless of your IQ.
IMO the whole field of psychometrics is a scientific dead end. There are use cases for psychological testing (particularly in neuropsychology and as a diagnosis tool in psychiatry), but in general these tests are there to support a theory, not the whole basis for the theory.
> Some evidence suggests that heritability might increase to as much as 80% in later adulthood independent of dementia (Panizzon et al., 2014); other
results suggest a decline to about 60% after age 80 (Lee, Henry, Trollor, & Sachdev, 2010), but another study suggests no change in later life (McGue & Christensen, 2013).
Your source is actually just partially about the Wilson effect, it only spends a handful of paragraphs about it as it enumerates it among the “top 10 Findings From Behavioral Genetics”. The pivotal study is actually a meta-analysis —or rather a summary of studies—from 2013[1]. Read it if you want to be more convinced of this pseudo-science.
In the 10 years since the publication of this pivotal study, this Wilson effect has gone nowhere. Not even a wikipedia page to show for it.
> The researchers aren’t stupid, obviously they try to control for things like schooling.
Don’t be so sure. Twin studies on intelligence are reeked with bad science and malicious data manipulation. A lot of the researchers conducting these studies in the 70s and 80s were eugenicists doing scientific racism. Some even went so far as to forcefully separate twins into convenient families so they could be “studied” (See Peter B. Neubauer). The method of twin studies was actually proposed by non-other then Francis Galton (which should settle all discussion on the link to the eugenicist movement), and now century and a half later, we are still not convinced on the merits of this method.
Given this history, I don’t think it is smart to take any results from twin and adaption studies seriously. Some researchers don’t want to go that far, so if they actually look more broadly they conclude that these effects go away if you include people adopted into lower income families. James Flynn (of the Flynn-effect) actually argues for a Family effect on intelligence[2] as a result. But—as I say—I think Flynn is giving twin studies weight that shouldn’t be given, and would claim that results are inconclusive.
I actually want to go further and say not only that results are inconclusive, but they are irrelevant. Like I said, this is all pseudo-science. IQ is no different from SAT in that it is a metric whose only value is it’s score. It provides no insight into what we call intelligence, only some skills that people have acquired. Finding out how much better you can become at this skill by merits of your genes is a weird question that ultimately proves nothing.
>If I struggle with timeliness, you’re going to think I don’t care about my job. If I forget something, you might just conclude I’m dumb.
If you struggle with timeliness or forget about things frequently I don't care what the reason is, you are out anyway. If I needed things done on time, it wouldn't matter to me if you were late frequently because you are careless or because you have an illness.
Consider having just the tiniest bit of empathy for other people.
In the end, who cares if they write "was good at work" on your tombstone.
Why not try for "helped people when they needed it"?
As a severely ADHD person who manages a lot of people and managers, if i saw a manager acting like this, this sort of "don't care at all about anything but the output" is not a thing i would generally reward.
Certainly people need to be able to do the job, but there is a different between trying to lift people up and help them do it, and just burning through people to try go get things done.
No, what I'm saying is that the article makes it sound like a boss will fire you for being oblivious about your diagnosis and your illness. Instead, I think that the job needs to be done, and if you aren't able to for whatever the reason is the boss is going to have to find a replacement for you.
you are looking at it from the perspective of the boss.
try looking from the perspective of the worker who want to succeed in a highly regimented world that's artificially constructed that way.
if you don't believe the world is artificially constructed in myriad ways which are counterproductive to vast populations, i recommend the book Invisible Women.
You know, no matter how invincible you feel right now, you may find yourself in the position of needing help one day, and hopefully when that day comes, you don’t simply get a contemptuous “boo hoo”.
I often feel like a colorblind person who keeps getting reprimanded for mixing up green and red. As if, if they just penalized me a little bit more, I'd stop mixing them up.
The world is cruel and ok, it's not fair, but sometimes you just can't do anything but suffer and struggle on. Certainly it's the nature of the world that your strengths are usually ignored while your weaknesses are always thrown into sharp relief.
What else can you do? I'm certainly not going to just curl up and die.
Right. But that is illegal and in my view also immoral. If you want to change the law campaign for it. But breaking tax laws is not a victimless crime. You are freeloading/stealing from the rest of us.
Edit - ah, I think you mean politicians? My comment still stands though. I don’t know the polling in the US, but spending on social programmes in Europe is broadly inline with public opinion, so the insunuation of a democratic deficit is misplaced, at least here.
According to my little research you can insert script tags, but you can only use the scripts which are bundled inside the extension. It's still not clear to me what prevents this script to download external script using AJAX which will execute whatever user wants (e.g. some cloud userscript service).
Also for power users it should not be a problem at all. Just create your own extension which is literally few simple files and put your userscripts inside that extension. Then load this extension from the chrome and voila.
> It's still not clear to me what prevents this script to download external script using AJAX which will execute whatever user wants
If you read the MV3 migration guide you’ll quickly realize why. CSP script-src is restricted to self, none, or localhost sources for all non-sandbox pages, content scripts included.
I don't think that's what I'm talking about. I'm talking about inserting a script from the extension which will then download another script from the external source and execute it. Once you've got access to the DOM, you're pretty much unstoppable.
Yes - I have done this in an MV3 extension. You can basically re-implement your own runtime and download the code and run it there instead of using eval/script tags.
It's very inefficient and it's a pain to write, but it is possible.
I suspect they will not approve extensions that do this if it becomes popular.
That's short-sighted. It's also possible to create a BEV that might not replace ICE vehicles for all use cases, but one that replaces the ICE vehicle in particular circumstances.
A BEV fits into my lifestyle. So much so that I think owning an ICE vehicle would decrease my quality of life. I don't want to go to a gas station every week. I don't want to have to take my car in for tune-ups every year.
> But... you'd rather charge every time you use it? And what if you run out of energy in the middle of a trip?
This is no work. You carefully mount the charger so that it‘s right between your car door and the charge port. When you exit the car it‘s a single movement on the way out of the garage.
As for range, you don‘t run out in the middle of a trip. The car finds a supercharger if it‘s really one of those longer trips.
I have not once ran out of energy in the middle of a trip. You need to be an idiot to pull that feat off. And I've taken road trips from LA to Vancouver once a year. It takes longer than an ICE vehicle, but the ADAS features outweigh the time-cost. I should note that the ADAS features are not exclusive to BEV, they just happen to be better than the ICE competition at the moment.
Anyway, the vast majority of the time, my car charges every single night and I have 80% or 90% battery in the morning.
I never said they don't need tune ups. But in my three years of ownership, all I've had to change were air filters and top up windshield fluid. The brakes are never used. The tires get rotated in my driveway by mobile service. Screw going to the local car mechanic or dealership every year.
So I'll pose the question to you. Maybe the answers lead you to sticking with ICE vehicles, and that's fine. But do you want to go to the gas station every time you run out of "energy"? Do you really want to change the oil, brake pads, fluids, etc.?
Yes. I get out of my car, plug in with the charge door right next to the driver door, then go inside. Longer trips, I use a fast charger. Went on a trip just before Thanksgiving that required 7 stops round trip.
I don’t need to change oil, or spark plugs or engine air filter. Stuff will need to get changed, but maintenance is much reduced.
