Curt Doolittle

Category: Human Behavior and Cognitive Science

  • Not expecting everyone to mature and learn at the same pace, and reforming educa

    Not expecting everyone to mature and learn at the same pace, and reforming education to emphasize competitive games that maintain interest in students despite differences in neotenic agency and state of maturity. Plus not teaching them ideology, but science, engineering, natural law, contract, finance, and means of managing projects for the self and others. Then restoring socialization by entry into the workforce part time at the earliest possible age.

    Source date (UTC): 2023-04-13 16:51:50 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1646556814421393420

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1646524379235508227

  • Bell Curve Differences Between Groups The variation is tiny, with the only meani

    Bell Curve Differences Between Groups
    The variation is tiny, with the only meaningful differences being tail effects. There is far more genetic load (defect) in the left tail of african populations, and far more advantage in the right tail of English Anglican, and double that in Ashekanazis. So that for every Anglican outlier there are twice as many Ashkenazi outliers.

    –“the Asian advantage is 4 points on verbal and 59 on math. The white standard deviation is about 103, so Asians have an advantage of 4/103=0.04 d and 59/103=0.57 d. The overall advantage is complicated to calculate but will be a little more than the average of these values (0.31), so about 0.35 d, or 5.25 IQ equivalent points.”–

    Where 1/2 SD = 7.5 Points. And half an SD is the point of ‘demonstrated marginal difference’.
    Now test prep does help and asian test prep is legendary, with 30% of east asians prepping, and only 10% whites. Which reduces the white-asian SAT gap by about 1/3. But the gap still remains.
    The reason is group differences in neoteny and cognitive dimorphism, which is a bit deep for this conversation.

    Reply addressees: @GoodTexture @MuhammadAreez10

    Source date (UTC): 2023-04-13 12:27:11 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1646490212552306689

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1646458600812847104

  • Bell Curve Differences Between Groups The variation is tiny, with the only meani

    Bell Curve Differences Between Groups
    The variation is tiny, with the only meaningful differences being tail effects. There is far more genetic load (defect) in the left tail of african populations, and far more advantage in the right tail of English Anglican, and double that in Ashekanazis. So that for every Anglican outlier there are twice as many Ashkenazi outliers.

    –“the Asian advantage is 4 points on verbal and 59 on math. The white standard deviation is about 103, so Asians have an advantage of 4/103=0.04 d and 59/103=0.57 d. The overall advantage is complicated to calculate but will be a little more than the average of these values (0.31), so about 0.35 d, or 5.25 IQ equivalent points.”–

    Where 1/2 SD = 7.5 Points. And half an SD is the point of ‘demonstrated marginal difference’.
    Now test prep does help and asian test prep is legendary, with 30% of east asians prepping, and only 10% whites. Which reduces the white-asian SAT gap by about 1/3. But the gap still remains.
    The reason is group differences in neoteny and cognitive dimorphism, which is a bit deep for this conversation.

    Source date (UTC): 2023-04-13 12:27:11 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1646490212690804737

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1646458600812847104

  • That’s a relativistic statement. Which societies are more complex? 70IQ or 110IQ

    That’s a relativistic statement. Which societies are more complex? 70IQ or 110IQ. The answer is rather painfully obvious across the planet because IQ is the single measure that explains every single society worldwide.
    If you mean, they place greater value on direct-perception in small family and clan groups vs indirect analysis in complex societies, that would be true. It would also mean they’re no more complicated that children.

    Reply addressees: @GoodTexture @MuhammadAreez10

    Source date (UTC): 2023-04-13 12:07:26 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1646485240578285570

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1646459298166493186

  • That’s a relativistic statement. Which societies are more complex? 70IQ or 110IQ

    That’s a relativistic statement. Which societies are more complex? 70IQ or 110IQ. The answer is rather painfully obvious across the planet because IQ is the single measure that explains every single society worldwide.
    If you mean, they place greater value on direct-perception in small family and clan groups vs indirect analysis in complex societies, that would be true. It would also mean they’re no more complicated that children.

    Source date (UTC): 2023-04-13 12:07:26 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1646485240649588738

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1646459298166493186

  • Everything you’d want to know is covered in this book. It’s available on libgen

    Everything you’d want to know is covered in this book. It’s available on libgen dot is.
    https://www.amazon.com/Contemporary-Intellectual-Assessment-Theories-Issues/dp/146255203X
    But it’s also an academic treatment that might be less helpful. Most pop science books are trash.

    There are better people than I to interview on the subject. My area…

    Source date (UTC): 2023-04-13 12:05:43 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1646484811442188288

    Reply addressees: @zmb_bllbry_mffn

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1646462987430170625

  • Everything you’d want to know is covered in this book. It’s available on libgen

    Everything you’d want to know is covered in this book. It’s available on libgen dot is.
    https://t.co/2uqAgpxRKh
    But it’s also an academic treatment that might be less helpful. Most pop science books are trash.

    There are better people than I to interview on the subject. My area of expertise is in the operational explanation of the brain, mind, personality, and variations in demonstrated intelligence. IQ tests are largely seeking for biological intelligence (neutrality). I’m largely seeking what improves or interferes with the demonstration of whatever intelligence you have, how to educate differently from today, and the social, political, and economic consequences of demonstrated intelligence.

    But If you were to write a set of questions ahead of time I might be willing to do an interview. Beause I assume people are actually more interested in my work than the IQ tests themselves – which you can’t do much about.

    Cheers

    Source date (UTC): 2023-04-13 12:05:43 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1646484811312242689

  • WHAT IS THE ORIGIN OF OUR BEHAVIORAL PSEUDOSCIENCE? Behavioral science ‘went bad

    WHAT IS THE ORIGIN OF OUR BEHAVIORAL PSEUDOSCIENCE?
    Behavioral science ‘went bad’ and became an entrenched pseudoscience in the postwar period. Before then, between darwin and the second world war, psychology sociology and politics were as systematic as the physical sciences.

    The biggest lies we face, that cause the failure of our democratic republic and rule of law, is the denial of the reducibility of all social economc and political problems to sex, class, and race differences in intelligence and morality, and morality constrained by personality, and personaly constrained by defect.

    –“When out intelligence scale: have become more accurate and the laws governing IQ changes have been more definitely established it will then be possible to say that there is nothing abuut: an individual as important as his lQ, except possibly his morals; than the greatest educational problem is to determine the kind of education best suited to each IQ level; that the first concern of a nation should be the average IQ of its citizens, and the eugenic and dysgenic: influence which are capable of raising or lowering that level; that the greatest problem of democracy is how to adjust itself to the large lQ differences which can be demonstrated to exist among the members of any race or nationality group.”–
    —LEWIS M. TERMAN (1922b)
    Author of the first Stanford Binet Intelligence Scale

    Source date (UTC): 2023-04-13 11:56:36 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1646482516054818817

  • WHAT IS THE ORIGIN OF OUR BEHAVIORAL PSEUDOSCIENCE? Behavioral science ‘went bad

    WHAT IS THE ORIGIN OF OUR BEHAVIORAL PSEUDOSCIENCE?
    Behavioral science ‘went bad’ and became an entrenched pseudoscience in the postwar period. Before then, between darwin and the second world war, psychology sociology and politics were as systematic as the physical sciences.

    The biggest lies we face, that cause the failure of our democratic republic and rule of law, is the denial of the reducibility of all social economc and political problems to sex, class, and race differences in intelligence and morality, and morality constrained by personality, and personaly constrained by defect.

    –“When out intelligence scale: have become more accurate and the laws governing IQ changes have been more definitely established it will then be possible to say that there is nothing abuut: an individual as important as his lQ, except possibly his morals; than the greatest educational problem is to determine the kind of education best suited to each IQ level; that the first concern of a nation should be the average IQ of its citizens, and the eugenic and dysgenic: influence which are capable of raising or lowering that level; that the greatest problem of democracy is how to adjust itself to the large lQ differences which can be demonstrated to exist among the members of any race or nationality group.”–
    —LEWIS M. TERMAN (1922b)
    Author of the first Stanford Binet Intelligence Scale

    Source date (UTC): 2023-04-13 11:56:36 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1646482516172210176

  • You are correct. Conversely the smart fraction is a hard minimum below which you

    You are correct.
    Conversely the smart fraction is a hard minimum below which you can ‘run things’ but you can’t produce significant innovations.

    Source date (UTC): 2023-04-12 23:47:46 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1646299096838275078

    Reply addressees: @BasedLawyer @GoodTexture

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1646294480465608709