Tag: g factor
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Everything you need to know why East Asian universities are lagging
No one is denying Japan or South Korea are developed high-income countries. Their universities can definitely teach how to construct buildings, roads, how to build a nuclear plant, subway system, how to make telephones, and so on. Their universities (unlike the Czech ones) are well-funded, yet they are not on par with the quality of…
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Unbelievable and preposterous Joe Biden rates Polish intelligence. How dare you!
“Well, look what’s happened. Look what started to seep in, beginning and probably even with candidates during our administration. We stopped showing up at the Polish American club. We stopped showing up, and we all went to you, the really smart people. We had a new kind of coalition we were putting together. College-educated women…
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Assessing dead people IQ is pseudoscience
A widespread phenomenon has hit us. We don’t know the IQ of a dead person (lots of time a genius) so we use stylometry. And while there may be a correlation between, for example, the complexity of the written text and a living person’s IQ, the IQ tests are here to actually test people. We…
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Humanities vs. exact sciences
Some people claim exact sciences and humanities are on the same level. They say the same things are done with different tools. Nothing can be far from the truth. Imagine Newton’s physics in the 1600s. The extremely complex and provable system of equations and their geometric illustrations. The same thing goes with Einstein’s Theory of…