Category: Human Behavior and Cognitive Science

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We absolutely positively know what IQ measures, because it’s simple: neural responsiveness (adaptation).
We absolutely positively know what causes variation in IQ.
We absolutely positively know why we apply our IQ variation differently resulting in the spectra of demonstrated behavior.
And we absolutely positively know the variation consists of sex differences in brain organization, personality differences that result, degree of neotenic evolution, and genetic load, followed by cultural differences in indoctrination, training, and ideosyncratic experience.
The only interesting question is why those with high empathizing and low systematizing deny these facts – and we know that answer as well.
What you all fear is that your reliance on empathizing and projection may (likely) expose the limits of your cognitive ability to model human behavior at scale. And those of you who empathize first would panic at the realization of your limitiations.

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FALSE
We absolutely positively know what IQ measures, because it’s simple: neural responsiveness (adaptation).
We absolutely positively know what causes variation in IQ.
We absolutely positively know why we apply our IQ variation differently resulting in the spectra of demonstrated behavior.
And we absolutely positively know the variation consists of sex differences in brain organization, personality differences that result, degree of neotenic evolution, and genetic load, followed by cultural differences in indoctrination, training, and ideosyncratic experience.
The only interesting question is why those with high empathizing and low systematizing deny these facts – and we know that answer as well.
What you all fear is that your reliance on empathizing and projection may (likely) expose the limits of your cognitive ability to model human behavior at scale. And those of you who empathize first would panic at the realization of your limitiations.