Comment Re:2 or 3 points? (Score 1) 467
If you were smart like me, you'd know that the standard error in the test is not relevant in this story because both the high scoring group and the lower scoring group are both subject to the same margin of error. Duh.
Having said that, if I test 2 or 3 points higher than someone, I don't consider myself to be smarter than that person. I'd say that we were both in the same general range. And to say that 2 or 3 IQ points is the difference between an A and a B is ridiculous on its face.
Why don't these researchers use their time and money trying to solve important problems, such as how to build a spaceship that will hold the world's fundamentalist Muslems and send them to Alpha Centauri.
Having said that, if I test 2 or 3 points higher than someone, I don't consider myself to be smarter than that person. I'd say that we were both in the same general range. And to say that 2 or 3 IQ points is the difference between an A and a B is ridiculous on its face.
Why don't these researchers use their time and money trying to solve important problems, such as how to build a spaceship that will hold the world's fundamentalist Muslems and send them to Alpha Centauri.
