Planetarion Forums - IQ Test Question

madi · 8 Feb 2004, 18:36

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Originally Posted by Nodrog

thats beautiful man

you punctuated me !

how rude

Lupin · 8 Feb 2004, 18:37

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Originally Posted by Radical Edward

if your parents were fish, would your intelligence be dependent on this fact?

if my parents were fishes i doubt, i would post on forums.

whats your goddamn point?

Radical Edward · 8 Feb 2004, 18:38

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Originally Posted by Lupin

if my parents were fishes i doubt, i would post on forums.

whats your goddamn point?

my point is that your intelligence is clearly dependent on heredity.

Dante Hicks · 8 Feb 2004, 18:39

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Originally Posted by madi

look at your average council estate
think many of those spitting slouching idiot children have clever parents?

Erm, what's that got to do with anything?

1) If my parents were rich, why would I end up on a council estate? Even if I was chronically stupid, why wouldn't I just live with them or somesuch? Not that people who are on council estates are "stupid" per se anyway (I maybe biased since that's where I grew up and I don't really consider myself such).

2) Most Protestants have Protestant parents.

madi · 8 Feb 2004, 18:39

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Originally Posted by Lupin

from my expirience, i can tell you that children of doctors, lawyers (you know academicians) are those who are kind of idiotic.

http://www.yourdictionary.com

for goodness sake people
we are in a thread about intelligence

if you insist on trying to use long words please at least check to see if they exist first

(we are talking about intelligence rather than behaviour
few teenagers dont behave like morons)

Dante Hicks · 8 Feb 2004, 18:40

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Originally Posted by Radical Edward

my point is that your intelligence is clearly dependent on heredity.

While I support your efforts against hyperbole, I think this is being unhelpful slightly.

I mean we're talking about variation between individuals (i.e. why some people have high IQ scores and some have low IQ scores). If there's a useful genetic argument to hear on the subject of variance then let's hear it.

Nodrog · 8 Feb 2004, 18:40

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Originally Posted by madi

you punctuated me !

how rude

I plead guilty to your charge
But in my defence
I must invoke,
The claim of artistic licence.

For what creativity could be born unto the world
What momuments could themselves erect
If one were not permitted
To change our details as required.

How grey the skies would be
How low the sad wind would blow
Were not this indeceny permitted
In the name of Beauty.

SilverSmoke · 8 Feb 2004, 18:41

we are not all gifted with english as the mother language

Radical Edward · 8 Feb 2004, 18:41

http://dictionary.reference.com/sear...&q=academician

Dante Hicks · 8 Feb 2004, 18:42

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Originally Posted by Radical Edward

http://dictionary.reference.com/sear...&q=academician

heh.

p.s. Dissing non-native speakers of English for their language skills seems kind of pointless.

SilverSmoke · 8 Feb 2004, 18:43

no man that's ****ing intellectual

madi · 8 Feb 2004, 18:44

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Originally Posted by Dante Hicks

Erm, what's that got to do with anything?

1) If my parents were rich, why would I end up on a council estate? Even if I was chronically stupid, why wouldn't I just live with them or somesuch? Not that people who are on council estates are "stupid" per se anyway (I maybe biased since that's where I grew up and I don't really consider myself such).

2) Most Protestants have Protestant parents.

it was a visually descriptive sentence so that you would be able to easily know what i was referring to

i could have said

a group of cardigan wearing library card owning bespectacled young people probably don’t have fathers drinking special brew down the bookies

its called a generalisation

Radical Edward · 8 Feb 2004, 18:45

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Originally Posted by Dante Hicks

heh.

p.s. Dissing non-native speakers of English for their language skills seems kind of pointless.

however dissing people who incorrectly diss non-native speakers of English for their language skills seems kind of cool.

madi · 8 Feb 2004, 18:46

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Originally Posted by Nodrog

I plead guilty to your charge
But in my defence
I must invoke,
The claim of artistic licence.

For what creativity could be born unto the world
What momuments could themselves erect
If one were not permitted
To change our details as required.

How grey the skies would be
How low the sad wind would blow
Were not this indeceny permitted
In the name of Beauty.

ok
and its madeline smith btw

Dante Hicks · 8 Feb 2004, 18:46

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Originally Posted by madi

its called a generalisation

Yeah, I got that bit. I was more referring to "how is the movement (or lack of) of people in a given society proof of genetic inheritability of intelligence"?

Have you read the Bell Curve? They basically outlined your argument for 800 pages and managed to fit in some stuff about the blacks. You really should give it a read if you've not done.

Lupin · 8 Feb 2004, 18:47

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Originally Posted by madi

http://www.yourdictionary.com

for goodness sake people
we are in a thread about intelligence

if you insist on trying to use long words please at least check to see if they exist first

like i do give a flying ****.
ohh see it is as a compliment, you intelligence is that superior, that you understood what i meant, although i used a wrong word in that context.

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(we are talking about intelligence rather than behaviour
few teenagers dont behave like morons)

it is not how they behave, it is what they talk.

Dante Hicks · 8 Feb 2004, 18:47

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Originally Posted by Radical Edward

however dissing people who incorrectly diss non-native speakers of English for their language skills seems kind of cool.

Yes, that was ace.

Lupin · 8 Feb 2004, 18:48

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Originally Posted by Radical Edward

my point is that your intelligence is clearly dependent on heredity.

Radical Edward · 8 Feb 2004, 18:51

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Originally Posted by Dante Hicks

While I support your efforts against hyperbole, I think this is being unhelpful slightly.

I mean we're talking about variation between individuals (i.e. why some people have high IQ scores and some have low IQ scores). If there's a useful genetic argument to hear on the subject of variance then let's hear it.

I will just repeat what I said earlier:

I think the only really useful questions we can ask are things like "All other things being equal, in what way does genetics affect the maximum intelligence"
(assuming we even define intelligence in the first place, perhaps we should replace it with something like "ability in certain tasks")

There is undoubtedly going to be a variation between individuals as a result of their genetic makeup, just as there is undoubtedly going to be variation as a result of their upbringing, how many times they were hit in the head with a brick and so on. we can only really look at the effect of these things if we take all other things to be equal, but of course they never are, except perhaps the genes being the same in identical twins - but even this is kind of useless, since the way the genes function is in itself a reaction to the environment, which the genes then adjust either directly or indirectly in a hideously complex feedback loop of mindboggling proportions.

Nodrog · 8 Feb 2004, 18:51

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Originally Posted by madi

ok
and its madeline smith btw

http://www.celebrity8x10s.com/Mercha...=smithmadeline

is this u? U r hot :)

Radical Edward · 8 Feb 2004, 18:53

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Originally Posted by Dante Hicks

Yes, that was ace.

why thank you, good sir

it was either that, or

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=colon

madi · 8 Feb 2004, 18:53

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Originally Posted by Lupin

like i do give a flying ****.
ohh see it is as a compliment, you intelligence is that superior, that you understood what i meant, although i used a wrong word in that context.

english isnt your first language
i am sorry
not about you being from another country
but about my abrupt reply in response to you not knowing the word academic

i find it rather frustrating sometimes that people dont check the validity of the words they use
perhaps i should be more concerned about those who dont check the validity of what they are saying

Radical Edward · 8 Feb 2004, 18:55

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Originally Posted by madi

english isnt your first language
i am sorry
not about you being from another country
but about my abrupt reply in response to you not knowing the word academic

i find it rather frustrating sometimes that people dont check the validity of the words they use
perhaps i should be more concerned about those who dont check the validity of what they are saying

you do know right, that academician is a word. insert it into the site you mentioned, and you'll see what I mean.

Lupin · 8 Feb 2004, 18:55

insight is the first step to improvement.

SilverSmoke · 8 Feb 2004, 18:57

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Originally Posted by madi

english isnt your first language
i am sorry
not about you being from another country
but about my abrupt reply in response to you not knowing the word academic

i find it rather frustrating sometimes that people dont check the validity of the words they use
perhaps i should be more concerned about those who dont check the validity of what they are saying

it's funny hearing you speak about checking validity and such

Radical Edward · 8 Feb 2004, 19:00

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Originally Posted by madi

perhaps i should be more concerned about those who dont check the validity of what they are saying

absolutely

madi · 8 Feb 2004, 19:02

my nail polish has now dried properly
(why i was sat here)
going to have a bath
and leave you to argue amoung yourselves

Lupin · 8 Feb 2004, 19:05

it is okay to post on forums, you dont have to bring up an excuse, atleast not on a forum

SilverSmoke · 8 Feb 2004, 19:07

your departure will leave us in darkness and confusion

JonnyBGood · 8 Feb 2004, 19:20

madi is the internet personification of the worst stereotype ever.

Stew · 8 Feb 2004, 19:24

14th most replied-to thread \o/

SilverSmoke · 8 Feb 2004, 19:42

madi 19:37 Viewing Thread
IQ Test Question

I guess she decided to do her toenails as well

madi · 8 Feb 2004, 19:52

drying my hair before going to make some tea

that is freaky stalkerish btw

SilverSmoke · 8 Feb 2004, 19:54

Cyp · 9 Feb 2004, 18:06

The answer to #34 isn't there... It should be o∞. (With ∞ having a bit of overlap.)

A vinyl record can be a cd (one side of a cd can be coated with vinyl, but a cd can't be a cassete tape (at least, it wouldn't spin properly without messing up the cd drive, or it wouldn't be the right shape to fit in a cassete player), and a vinyl record can't be a cassete tape.

Actually, C would be a possibility, because a vinyl coated cassete tape could be played on a record player without shaking too much due to its rectangular shape, as the record player could be made to spin slowly.

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Originally Posted by Nodrog

It has been scientifically demonstrated on numerous occassions that IQ correlates strongly with all other objective indicators of intelligence.

Mmmm, vacuous truths...

Nodrog · 9 Feb 2004, 18:49

Cyp!!!! :) :) :) :)