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@Devlinside123 @Ed_Realist @avidseries Because I'm a loser, who has no friends. (I'm new to the world of twitter)

@CL0CK_WORK @Ed_Realist @avidseries True, IQ is real…but why do you have 0 followers?

There are quite a few myths about SAT test prep. Two big ones are that it significantly boosts scores and that fewer blacks prep. Studies: SAT prep usually improves scores by only 10 to 35 points. Black students are more likely to prep than whites. nytimes.com/2021/09/09/opi…

@polyslav @avidseries Generally, I've heard prep is used in border cases. 1200 - 1250 or 1340 to 1370, etc. These second value for each of these sets, give huge boosts to "merit" aid.

@avidseries hmm so both myths flipped in the same direction 10-35 pts after all that grinding? feels low for the price

@Devlinside123 @Ed_Realist @avidseries So, this is the biggest reason why your students are able to see tremendous gains on SAT/ACT scores. You are already selecting from a relatively elite population (cognitively speaking). Many note that the average GCA in certain areas of the United States, dwarf others.

Exactly, I’ve worked in posh Beverly Hills for most of that time and in some cases with families with three and four kids…No one, least of all some titans of finance, would pay my rates over four kids and a dozen years if I wasn’t producing results…especially in the very high status realm of college admissions…

@CognitiveMetric It also looks to be that monetarily; IQ isn't very valued. Only 3% of people who are in the 99th percentile earn an income in the 95th percentile.

@CL0CK_WORK ?

Common misconception: “IQ doesn't measure anything meaningful beyond 120 IQ and is only good for telling apart intellectual disability." To the contrary: The Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY) has tracked thousands of adolescents who scored in the top 1% (135 IQ; 390 or higher SAT-M at age 13) since the early 1970s. The top quartile of this already-elite group went on, by their early 30s, to earn patents at roughly six times the rate of their peers in the bottom quartile, secure tenure-track jobs at top 50 research universities eight times as often, and have incomes in the top 5% of incomes nationwide three times as often (and more, as the attached graph shows). These widening gaps, captured 20 years after the initial testing, show there is no loss in predictive power beyond some threshold of IQ, and that IQ can predict rarer and more prestigious accomplishments later on (Lubinski, 2009).

@CognitiveMetric I mean only 15% of individuals in the 99th percentile obtain a PHD. (If I'm reading the graph correctly) I wonder why, considering talent ramps are very strong in the US.

@Classic_Adverts @R_nnyu Pause, what was the second mistake?

@R_nnyu A mistake is when you put salt in your tea. Or you fuck a boy in thailand thinking its a woman. Or forgetting to put the handbrake on in your car. Trying to rape a woman is not a fucking mistake. How is she just gonna forgive him for that shit?

Lmaooooo

@AsianxProperty @SleepyLivers Isn't that the point? To get a rapist arrested?

@CL0CK_WORK @SleepyLivers Depending on what device you use, once you block someone you have to unblock them, and some people will question if the screenshots are fake, you have to show the actual evidence. You can get someone arrested just based off of screen shots and images

You cant make this up 😭😭

@AsianxProperty @SleepyLivers At a minimum you should block an individual who raped you, even if it isn't going to stop them. Furthermore, modern applications still retain your chats/messages of blocked individuals. There is no reason to keep a rapist unblocked, unless the person in question isn't a rapist.

@CL0CK_WORK @SleepyLivers It depends on the situation. If the rapist is someone you have to see again, blocking them is not going to stop them from raping you, and if they are able to lie about the rape, you can't just show the cops a blocked number, and be like hey this is person who did it.

@AsianxProperty @SleepyLivers What is this argument? If you truly need to explain the situation to law enforcement, you should be able to take screenshots, and backups of the conversation.

@SleepyLivers The problem is simple. You can't always just block a rapist. You need proof when you try to explain to the cops that this person raped you. If they are stalking you, they will just find a way to get your number again. Society is toxic.

There's something about women with big asses.

@theblessedsalt The ACT has a 0.76 correlation to the WAIS-III. IQ tests typically have an inter correlation of 0.7 ~ 0.9. In some definitions, the ACT can be used as a proxy for IQ. Note, the ACT has not undergone changes since 1989.

It should be noted that the GRE, SAT, and ACT are readiness tests assessing mastery of skills necessary for learning and are not IQ tests, though I would suspect something of a correlation between these scores and IQ. FTR, I only took the ACT. Got a respectable 30. 32 in math, 28 in reading comp. Other scores in between. If I took it again today, I suspect I’d score a bit lower in math and much higher in reading comp. Not because my IQ changed but because I am rusty on precalc and have grown tremendously in understanding the written word through years of work communication. We shouldn’t equate these scores with IQ.

@cold_and_quiet @NoahCarl90 I'm kind of curious. I remember taking an IQ test in 3rd or 5th grade, scoring around average (95 ~ 105) I scored a 30 on the ACT Math, however on my first attempt. Do you think it's possibly a fluke?

@NoahCarl90 ACT Math scores (correlated with IQ) predict success at the higher ends (inconsistent with IQ only measuring stupidity)

@NoahCarl90 has the best rebuttal to the claim about IQ only measuring stupidity - it doesnt hold water when tested

@nik0nikki Even worse..you're Bangladeshi.

from these images alone what ethnic background do you think im from? 🥺🥺 DONT say indian or else i will kill myself!!!!!!!! pleaseeee tell me you think im asian pleaseeeeee🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

@cremieuxrecueil I find this very hard to believe considering the average ACT/SAT score of a college graduate is 24/1190... From this paper, Only ~10 % of the population obtained a bachelor's degree with a score of 20 or lower. act.org/content/dam/ac… A 24 is equivalent to 110 ~ 111 FSIQ

I wanted to see how many American doctors were objectively unintelligent I assembled 9 large-scale American datasets and I found that there are plenty of actually unintelligent people with doctorates The least intelligent non-disabled, valid-score doctor I found had an IQ of 66

@evanescians @JacksonFromTwit Sadly this is not true.. The average age an individual loses their virginity in the U.K/U.S is 17. Only 1.3% - 2.0% of 30 year olds have never experienced a relationship. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

@JacksonFromTwit oh my god ur experience is not the norm for many

@Smirkley Is there any studies using SAT/ACT scores? Kind of curious to see if there's a difference.

Men aged 53–57, median household income by wordsum score (2026 USD): 0–2: $67k 3: $89k 4: $104k 5: $124k 6: $144k 7: $159k 8: $186k 9: $220k 10: $223k Wordsum is a validated IQ proxy. GSS 1972–2024,

@galtons_sextant @cremieuxrecueil Sure bud..

@CL0CK_WORK @cremieuxrecueil My GRE got me admitted to Stanford. Don't recall my scores on any of that anymore.

California was the first state to mandate later school start times for K-12. This was a good idea. It allowed students to get more sleep, and simultaneously, they started to perform better on tests! If suspensions are any indication, they might even act out less!

@galtons_sextant @cremieuxrecueil The article clearly states: "The major finding is that when you follow current best practices in conducting and replicating online social-behavioral studies, you can accomplish high and generally stable replication rates" You're just coping at this point bud.

@CL0CK_WORK @cremieuxrecueil What you're talking about is the effort to eliminate the problem of failure to replicate. The point is it is an acknowledged problem, and you conveniently used their rigor enhanced figure of 97% when they go on to say 50% was the norm.

@galtons_sextant @cremieuxrecueil Buddy, if you did bad on the SAT it's okay..

@CL0CK_WORK @cremieuxrecueil Social "science" if it ever was credible lost it completely with the takeover of women in the field.