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May 17, 2017 • 12 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
"My Family's Slave" is now trending in the Philippines, where it's lunch time. I'm going to share a few interesting threads from Filipinos:
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Apr 3, 2018
I'm at my grandmother's house. She's a neuropsychologist and showed me her contribution to the IQ debate... from 1988. "The IQ has long ceased to be a useful scientific construct for organizing and describing our increasingly complex and sensitive behavioral observations."
Her main argument is that by lumping many different abilities into a single score IQ obscures the pluralistic nature of human cognition. It makes it hard to judge the real strengths and limitations of the people being tested.
She details a bunch of reasons why IQ is not a useful concept, theoretically or practically. It is based on circular logic. ("Intelligence is what the tests of intelligence test," says E.G. Boring.) It doesn't capture the nuances of impairment in brain damaged patients, etc
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Feb 21, 2018
Some propaganda history:
On October 30, 1938, CBS broadcast Orson Welles’ adaptation of H.G. Wells’ “War of The Worlds.” It was structured as a real-time breaking news bulletin, reporting a terrifying Martian invasion in northern New Jersey complete with elaborate sound effects.
Many listeners believed the broadcast was real. People rushed from their homes, and panicked calls flooded newspaper switchboards. A caller from Pittsburgh claimed that he had barely prevented his wife from taking her own life by swallowing poison.
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