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pick two americans at random. the main difference b/w them will be their IQ
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Date: April 22nd, 2017 9:50 AM Author: Arousing grizzly kitchen agree or disagree? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3592014&forum_id=2#33133358) |
Date: April 22nd, 2017 9:53 AM Author: wine casino jew Life is a big IQ test (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3592014&forum_id=2#33133369) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2017 2:59 PM Author: tripping dragon athletic conference so like a real IQ test (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3592014&forum_id=2#33135041) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2017 8:08 PM Author: motley abode filthpig (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3592014&forum_id=2#33137363) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2017 10:03 AM Author: red hairy legs international law enforcement agency Age. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3592014&forum_id=2#33133413) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2017 10:18 AM Author: Arousing grizzly kitchen yeah, this is probably correct. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3592014&forum_id=2#33133496) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2017 10:24 AM Author: Electric locale kitty This is almost certainly incorrect; age disribition is a pyramid. The odds of a very old and very young person being randomly selected is much smaller than two relatively young people. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3592014&forum_id=2#33133512) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2017 10:26 AM Author: Jet-lagged community account http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Ja1zaAogN1A/VGJ6_xIb3YI/AAAAAAAAS4k/1QLfaPkY8r0/s1600/US-Population-By-Age.jpg (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3592014&forum_id=2#33133520) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2017 10:28 AM Author: Electric locale kitty Can't click on that
There are far more young than olds. Age is a pyramid. Bigger base/ smaller top. What we are looking for is something with a small SD that is also not a pyramid in structure. I.e.- lots of variation, and a fairly equal distribution of the variation
Edit: Look at the graph you posted turned vertically. It's essentially a pyramid; you just chose a visual that plots on a different axis. Google " age pyramid" or population pyramid ... http://www.indexmundi.com/united_states/age_structure.html |
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Date: April 22nd, 2017 11:03 AM Author: Twinkling mewling indian lodge It's not a pyramid, owing to generational differences. There are more people 50-59 than there are 0-9. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3592014&forum_id=2#33133713) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2017 2:34 PM Author: hairraiser twinkling uncleanness mood It's not much of a pyramid of the pyramid only starts in the 50s.
Why don't you just make your argument without the pyramid claim? |
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Date: April 22nd, 2017 12:23 PM Author: maroon geriatric circlehead one wonders where you think relatively young ppl come from (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3592014&forum_id=2#33134289) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2017 8:22 PM Author: histrionic gunner double fault You're too dumb not to be flame (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3592014&forum_id=2#33137443) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2017 10:05 AM Author: zippy rusted lay multi-billionaire what bathroom they use (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3592014&forum_id=2#33133425) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2017 10:06 AM Author: Jet-lagged community account (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3592014&forum_id=2#33133429) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2017 10:06 AM Author: stimulating useless brakes not if we assume that iq follows a normal distribution, because there are other traits which follow distributions which have higher likely spreads (e.g. age)
it also depends on how you're quantifying the difference. for example, how do you compare a difference in a numerical trait like age to a binary trait like gender. |
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Date: April 22nd, 2017 10:12 AM Author: wine casino jew IQ is literally defined as following a normal distribution N(100,15) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3592014&forum_id=2#33133467) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2017 10:15 AM Author: stimulating useless brakes yes i know just highlighting why it's an important consideration (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3592014&forum_id=2#33133481) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2017 10:16 AM Author: wine casino jew carry on (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3592014&forum_id=2#33133485) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2017 2:39 PM Author: hairraiser twinkling uncleanness mood The tests were *designed* to have 100 means and SDs of 15 or 16 (depending on the test), but that's different from *defining* IQ in that way. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3592014&forum_id=2#33134937) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2017 2:50 PM Author: tripping dragon athletic conference except for the part where they convert from a raw score to a scaled score, so they pretty much get to decide on the distribution. they norm it on a large enough sample that they pretty much know how people are going to do.
of course the scores are roughly normally distributed anyway, that's why they don't use some other distribution instead. |
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Date: April 22nd, 2017 8:06 PM Author: wine casino jew correct
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Date: April 22nd, 2017 2:52 PM Author: Khaki messiness yarmulke sure but a histogram of questions answered correctly would have an even tighter numerical distribution. at the upper and lower ends of IQ scores, just a few questions can move you by a standard deviation. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3592014&forum_id=2#33134996) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2017 10:09 AM Author: Electric locale kitty Disagree. Bell curve and all - most people cluster around the mean IQ of 100. This is also true for most biometric markers. Best to pick something without as tight of a mean cluster if you want to improve your odds of big differences between two randoms. Age is a good one
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Date: April 22nd, 2017 10:10 AM Author: Exciting chapel (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3592014&forum_id=2#33133453) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2017 10:10 AM Author: stimulating useless brakes (person who read my post three minutes ago) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3592014&forum_id=2#33133456) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2017 10:12 AM Author: Electric locale kitty Where my reasoning breaks down is comparing whether there is greater statistical likelihood of a difference in something binary ( like gender or political orientation) vs something mean clustered. I'm not good enough at statistics for that, but it seems dependent on the size of the SD. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3592014&forum_id=2#33133466) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2017 10:13 AM Author: wine casino jew You keep saying "clustering" but I don't think you know what it means (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3592014&forum_id=2#33133473) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2017 10:15 AM Author: Electric locale kitty I may not . I just mean to say the sort of normal distribution usually expected with markers like IQ or height (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3592014&forum_id=2#33133480) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2017 10:13 AM Author: stimulating useless brakes (person who read the second paragraph of my post six minutes ago) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3592014&forum_id=2#33133474) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2017 10:11 AM Author: wine casino jew (Normal distribution masterwoman) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3592014&forum_id=2#33133460) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2017 10:18 AM Author: Arousing grizzly kitchen honestly I don't think this is true even in 2017. maybe in 2037 though. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3592014&forum_id=2#33133494) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2017 10:22 AM Author: Electric locale kitty Also hard to quantify racial difference. Is the difference between a black vs a white person greater or equal to an Asian vs White person? And is the difference between either greater than the difference between a 100 vs 115 IQ? IQ, age, height, etc., at least are quantifiable and you can argue that the greater the SD, the bigger the difference. " Race" is pretty vague in that regard (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3592014&forum_id=2#33133503) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2017 12:22 PM Author: cheese-eating azn corner 2 american children, then (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3592014&forum_id=2#33134281) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2017 10:28 AM Author: Impressive gaming laptop weirdly worded q, random means you could get 2 equal IQ people?
if you're asking what single trait, all other things being equal, would cause the biggest difference in two different americans, obviously 70 iq/130 iq would probably be the biggest reasonable difference yea. otherwise, it's probably some geographic difference like coastal urbanite v. breadbasket farmer.
race would be a big one except there's very little difference between asians and white strivers, also hispanics and poor whites. obviously upper class asian and urban black would be the biggest. |
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Date: April 22nd, 2017 10:31 AM Author: tripping dragon athletic conference (guy who doesn't think probabilistically) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3592014&forum_id=2#33133545) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2017 10:43 AM Author: Impressive gaming laptop I mean if the question is really a probability one like asked, then iq can't be the biggest difference because of the bell curve - picking two random people means your highest chances are of picking 2 100-iq people and fans out from there. Same thing with race though to a lesser degree - most Americans are white, blacks are only like 10% - so the highest likelihood is white-white. Same thing with urban/rural because something like 75% of the country lives in urban areas.
The answer would probably be sex then, given that half the time you get a pretty meaningless same-sex pairing but half the time you get an opposite-sex pairing. Men and women are very different - you might get bigger differences between black poor and rich asian, or 140-iq versus 60-iq, but because the probability of that pairing coming up is so low you're better off just picking sex. |
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Date: April 22nd, 2017 11:06 AM Author: Twinkling mewling indian lodge Income would get you further apart, insofar as it has a higher SD compared to its mean. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3592014&forum_id=2#33133730) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2017 2:48 PM Author: Khaki messiness yarmulke income isn't normally distributed either. wealth distribution is even more extreme.
it'd be incredibly unlikely to draw two people at random where one has an IQ even 4x the other.
income even if you draw the top 10% against bottom 10% that's a massive relative difference. not even sure it'd make sense since the bottom of the income distribution without government assistance is 0. is a middle class person infinitely better off than a poor? |
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Date: April 22nd, 2017 2:52 PM Author: Khaki messiness yarmulke yeah especially since women weigh much less than men *record scratch sound* (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3592014&forum_id=2#33135002) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2017 2:49 PM Author: Khaki messiness yarmulke not a continuous variable unless you're a shitlib. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3592014&forum_id=2#33134979) |
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