Tag: Gaussian curve
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Morality is not a bell curve: Why humans defy simple rankings
People are often described as if morality were distributed across humanity in the same way as height, intelligence, or many other measurable traits. At one end would be exceptionally immoral people, at the other exceptionally moral people, while most of humanity would supposedly cluster somewhere around the middle. It is an attractive picture. It is…
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Political orientation is partly an extension of our morals
Bill Maher has said that our political orientation is an extension of our morals. He is partly right, but the relationship is more complicated than that statement suggests. Political orientation can reflect morality. However, morality comes first in a much broader sense. Humans differ in their innate moral dispositions, while upbringing, culture, education, experiences and…
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A truly moral man. I have never seen such an individual
People distinguish between good (moral) and bad people. And since evolutionary biology, game theory and evolutionary psychology present human morality as something animalistic, my previous divide of good and bad people is gone. And even if you imagine our current Western morality (even though individuals have different systems) would be correct, there is still no…
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Imagine if IQ was everything and an exact science
IQ is nearly everything. Imagine a group with respectively different average IQs: 60, 80, 100, 120, 140, 160. Now imagine being able to have a discussion with the members of the groups. It goes without saying you would be able to assign respective numbers to every group. There are extremely significant correlations between median average…
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The silliest of the silly. You have IQ 120 and then it’s over
Have you heard this? When you have an IQ of 120 and more it doesn’t matter anymore. There are two possibilities how the proponents of this meant it: 1. There is progress of intelligence over IQ of 120 but doesn’t matter; that signals that people with IQs of 160 are on the same level as…