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bhobba reacted to symbolipoint's post in the thread Studying Correlating IQ and STEM performance with
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Agreeing here. "Say as many words as you can in 1 minute" seems a very poor test question. What exactly is being evaluated is not... -
Maybe overdoing it here, or being thick " Rainman: style, but how can you decide when words are different beyond a literal sense: are...
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bhobba reacted to mathwonk's post in the thread Studying Correlating IQ and STEM performance with Like.
I told my wife about this IQ thread and she reminded me of an experience with one of our kids. The IQ tester asked him (at age 4 or 5...
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bhobba reacted to symbolipoint's post in the thread Studying Correlating IQ and STEM performance with Like.
Terrible, but no longer completely surprising. Some bit much like it is, "We can't allow you to work off-the-clock".
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bhobba reacted to sbrothy's post in the thread Studying Correlating IQ and STEM performance with Like.
That may be the most daft reason for firing a driven educator (or indeed anyone) I've ever heard!
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bhobba replied to the thread Studying Correlating IQ and STEM performance.Bureaucracies are well known for it. Groupthink maybe? Thanks Bill
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bhobba reacted to OmCheeto's post in the thread Studying Correlating IQ and STEM performance with Like.
Some great quotes in there. 'There is no teaching, no learning going on here. We are just baby-sitting.' Due to the fact that I had 3...
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bhobba replied to the thread Studying Correlating IQ and STEM performance.I think Jaime Escalante showed that giftedness is nowhere near as important as it's made out to be. He would only accept those who...
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bhobba replied to the thread Studying Correlating IQ and STEM performance.Yes - by competency based degrees and dedication. They are fully accedited degrees like the one at East Texas A&M...
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my 2 cents: To my knowledge, IQ tests aim to measure in part: vocabulary, analogies, memory, numerical problem solving, spatial skills... -
bhobba replied to the thread Studying Correlating IQ and STEM performance.Average IQ is 85 to 115 which is nealy 70% of the population (about 68%). This means a bit over 15% of the population is below...
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bhobba replied to the thread Studying Correlating IQ and STEM performance.The average IQ of physics/math graduates is at the very superior, perhaps even genius, level (130+). But gets lower for other STEM...
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bhobba reacted to PeterDonis's post in the thread Undergrad Why does coordinate dependence violate homogeneity in spacetime intervals? with Like.
Ok, so their ##ds## and ##ds'## are describing the same infinitesimal spacetime interval in flat spacetime, just in two different...
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bhobba reacted to PeterDonis's post in the thread Graduate Time evolution of a detected particle with Like.
By no means. It could be bouncing back and forth within the confined space very fast. Or very slow. Or not at all.
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