>"You can't compare a composer and a mathematician on the same axis, they're doing different things!". No shit, jackass.
And this outburst serves what purpose exactly? What he said could be basic and obvious, but science involves laying out the basic and obvious things first all the time. Besides, you'd be surprised how many people believe in IQ as if you CAN measure a composer and a mathematician in the same axis [1].
>What you can do, for instance, is study the relationship between measured mean population IQ and GDP, which tells you it's really important to, eg, fight IQ-lowering dietary deficiencies and heavy element poisoning if you care about helping countries develop. It's incredibly powerful as an aggregate measure.
So, essentially combine 2 dubious and much contested metrics, IQ and GDP, to make decisions. I fail to see how this can be enlightening.
Nor how anyone would need this pseudo-quantification to undertstand that "fighting dietary deficiencies and heavy element poisoning" is important "if you care about helping countries develop". Does anyone without the unique tools of IQ and GDP think that lead poisoning is good for a country?
[1] Not to mention how many have the related misguided notion that "music is math", just because music theory involves some (very basic) math relationships in it (mathematical relationships that you can summarize to a 1st year math student in a day without getting a composer out of him).
Who are you, to preside as an authority to chastise and admonish?
> Does anyone without the unique tools of IQ and GDP think that lead poisoning is good for a country?
Pretty obvious that nutrition and food are powerful forces for intellect, and the aggregation of powerful intellect at scale is a powerful economy. Regardless of jargon, a well-fed, unpoisoned populace thinks cleary.
>Who are you, to preside as an authority to chastise and admonish?
I'm a commenter on Hacker News. Who said that only some higher "presiding authority" has the right to "chastise and admonish" rude behavior and name-calling on HN and the internet in general?
>Pretty obvious that nutrition and food are powerful forces for intellect, and the aggregation of powerful intellect at scale is a powerful economy. Regardless of jargon, a well-fed, unpoisoned populace thinks cleary.
Pretty obvious to me that there are far more obvious reasons for wanting a well-fed, non-poisoned populace that to get "a powerful intellect" and a "powerful economy". Basic humanism and compassion for one.
And who are you to chastise him for his chastisement? Feel free to ask who I am to chastise you for chastising him for chastising the other commenter, I do love these sorts of recursive finger-pointing discussions.
And this outburst serves what purpose exactly? What he said could be basic and obvious, but science involves laying out the basic and obvious things first all the time. Besides, you'd be surprised how many people believe in IQ as if you CAN measure a composer and a mathematician in the same axis [1].
>What you can do, for instance, is study the relationship between measured mean population IQ and GDP, which tells you it's really important to, eg, fight IQ-lowering dietary deficiencies and heavy element poisoning if you care about helping countries develop. It's incredibly powerful as an aggregate measure.
So, essentially combine 2 dubious and much contested metrics, IQ and GDP, to make decisions. I fail to see how this can be enlightening.
Nor how anyone would need this pseudo-quantification to undertstand that "fighting dietary deficiencies and heavy element poisoning" is important "if you care about helping countries develop". Does anyone without the unique tools of IQ and GDP think that lead poisoning is good for a country?
[1] Not to mention how many have the related misguided notion that "music is math", just because music theory involves some (very basic) math relationships in it (mathematical relationships that you can summarize to a 1st year math student in a day without getting a composer out of him).