Discussion about this post

User's avatar
Tom Klockau's avatar

Since this is an open thread, I think Jack should buy a mint green 1979 Bonneville Brougham Landau and race it in Japan. He'd probably easily win against a guy who got hit by a Denver bus, driving a purple four door 2 seat Hoover...

Expand full comment
Donkey Konger's avatar

IQ is tough. People get extremely sensitive about its implications. One often observes well-aligned-to-contemporary-orthodoxy people reject the possibility that IQ measures *virtually anything at all* to avoid implicitly assigning different groups of people different levels of status or potential.

For Taleb though, isn't he pissed that most IQ test designers fit the scoring into a normal distribution? Would guess that his real reasons are either: (1) he got a lower score than expected, or (2) he thinks the distribution of test-assigned scores doesn't adequately convey the degree to which his genius is greater than others' genius. ["With Taleb, never explain away by punctiliousness what would better be attributed to arrogance"]

That said, re: #2 above, he might be onto something.

Expand full comment
517 more comments...

No posts