This is why I love xkcd
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Today's xkcd says so much about this community. Well... most of this community... well, some of this community. Not me, or certain other persons like Buddy but most of the community at large.
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No link to xkcd site? No hover text?
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We fail the licence of xkcd in the process. Mine at least is today's ;)
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I'm wondering how long till it's rosie.
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How's it go? "The person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, etc."
Or as I have always heard it, the masses are asses
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My personal favourite is:
The IQ of a crowd is equal to the IQ of the least intelligent member, divided by the number of participants
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The comic assumes that the benchmark for "stupid" versus "smart" is "are you above average", when in reality, the average person is still quite stupid.
There are very few people who are not stupid. I can't think of any right now.
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I think it's less that people are stupid, but more that they are ignorant. They're like that because they are allowed to be, since they can get through life without trying and still make it thanks to government
dependenceassistance programsFiled Under: Look away @codinghorror
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How's it go? "The person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, etc."
The person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals, and you know it! 1,500 years ago, everybody knew that the Earth was the centre of the universe. 500 years ago, everybody knew that the Earth was flat. And 15 minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow.
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The person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals, and you know it! 1,500 years ago, everybody knew that the Earth was the centre of the universe. 500 years ago, everybody knew that the Earth was flat. And 15 minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow.
Common misconception. Very few people thought that the Earth was flat.
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Someone hasn't seen Men In Black.
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Someone hasn't seen Men In Black.
Not in about 15 years. Still haven't seen the third one...
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Ah, that'd be why you didn't recognise the quote then and got all pedantic-dickweedish about it
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Ah, that'd be why you didn't recognise the quote then and got all pedantic-dickweedish about it
There are many other reasons why I'm pedantic-dickweedish.
But, this is mostly your fault for not using quotation marks.
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But then I'd have had to write other content to get past DC's filters because a post only of quotes is forbidden in civilised discourse, apparently.
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"Lame"
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Short version: "I'm smarter than people who think are smarter than other people".
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"I'm smarter than people who think are smarter than other people".
Randall Munroe in a nutshell.
Filed under: might or might not be justifably so
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Lame
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what quote reply should really do is ask for the post raw content via an ajax call with data-type 'text/plain' and insert that
that way we can get xss exploits that only happen to people that click the quoting button
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@chubertdev said:
@chubertdev said:
@chubertdev said:
Lame
oh, @sam beat me to the html comments one, didn't realize that's what he had done.interesting, in my preview I see:
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There are very few people who are not stupid. I can't think of any right now.
So you are stupid? Just asking...
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“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”
― George Carlin
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I don't know about @ben_lubar but I'm pretty sure I'm skewing the average by representing the bottom half of the bell curve somewhere.
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by representing the bottom half of the bell curve somewhere.
We've got to do something about your self esteem.(@faoileag hands @Arantor a pint of Ale)
Bug: no markup for self-referencing action in Discourse!!
Filed under: IRC already had that twenty years ago.
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So you are stupid? Just asking...
I'd argue that at minimum, 90% of people are stupid.
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I'd argue that at minimum, 90% of people are stupid.
Is intelligence distributed like wealth, with a few people hogging all of it?
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Also, can I raise my IQ by killing lots of smart people?
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I'd argue that at minimum, 90% of people are stupid.
At least. Sorry you don't see yourself in the remaining 10%; I certainly do.1.Filed under: Ego? What ego?
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At least. Sorry you don't see yourself in the remaining 10%; I certainly do.
You see @ben_lubar in the remaining 10%?
EDIT: damn your ninja edits...
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/me misses that feature in SMF
As for self-esteem, this is not a bad thing. For a while I've been riding on a virtually impenetrable wave of 'fucking bring it on' that I could deal with anything thrown at me, and when it came crashing down a few months ago, I spent time re-evaluating my life. I'm working on it. But I've never been my favourite person.
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I'm so smart that I'm in the 101st percentile.
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Also, can I raise my IQ by killing lots of smart people?
No, but you can raise your position above the average.Filed under: statistics can be difficult to comprehend.
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No, but you can raise your position above the average.
Filed under: statistics can be difficult to comprehend.
Technically, IQ is determined in respect to the median of a representative sample of general population. So yeah, it would work.
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That like was for honesty. And I'll leave it at that but for one advice: just don't devalue yourself. Psychology is full of strange effects such like auto-conditioning.
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I'm working on rebuilding my self-value. :)
EDIT: WTF have you people done on this topic? Every single thing lags painfully on a quad-core laptop... it's maxing out a core!
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Also, can I raise my IQ by killing lots of smart people?
That should work at least as well as redistributing wealth.
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Technically, IQ is determined in respect to the median of a representative sample of general population. So yeah, it would work.
Oh come one. As if anyone would change the tests after the smartest 10% of the populace are gone. You'd still have an IQ of X regardless of how many people above that IQ are in the (remaining) populace.
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No, it's renormalized over time.
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Oh come one. As if anyone would change the tests after the smartest 10% of the populace are gone. You'd still have an IQ of X regardless of how many people above that IQ are in the (remaining) populace.
We need an XKCD What If about how many smart people I'd have to kill to raise my IQ by n points and the effect that it would have on the world for different values of n. I'm already over three quarters of the way to the perfect 100.
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Someone should suggest it to Randall.
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That is going to get really hard to evaluate when you are looking at things farther out on the scale as IIRC 85-115 is supposed to be a standard diff above and below 100 (little over 68% of everyone).
