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eager_toilet follows/you Director of Consanguinity, Hierarchy, and Exclusion 24d ago (sebjenseb.net) 718 thread views #348777 earned 180 coins from votes

deep dive on the newly-discovered small male advantage in IQ:

https://www.sebjenseb.net/p/sex-differences-in-intelligence

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whatastory a/s/l Necessity is the birthing person of invention. 24d ago #7908127

I was told that IQ tests are calibrated specifically to ensure male and female scores are approximately equal, by choosing weights for different parts of the test.

e.g. women seem to do better on "processing speed", and worse on "mechanical reasoning"

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eager_toilet follows/you Director of Consanguinity, Hierarchy, and Exclusion whatastory 24d ago #7908317

that's a misconception which he addresses in the post: what they do is remove biased items from the subtests. if "general knowledge" has a male advantage that's fine, but if there's a specific question about military history or whatever which is a clear outlier in male-female difference, they don't include it. basically they accept that overall scores have whatever distribution they have but they want to pretend that each subtest measures only one thing and doesn't have specific items that are clearly loading on something different.

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BenjaminBussy face/off eager_toilet 24d ago #7908373

IQ tests don't have knowledge questions. They're just puzzles basically.

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eager_toilet follows/you Director of Consanguinity, Hierarchy, and Exclusion BenjaminBussy 24d ago #7908411

real ones do have knowledge questions (WAIS, stanford-binet, etc). online ones are just puzzles.

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syscochill re/heat Rdrama's official Sysco® rep! Ask me about Sysco® eager_toilet 24d ago #7909166

This is correct. I had WAIS administered by a psychologist in college, and it had some dumb knowledge questions on it. I remember because I knew the answers but was close to bursting out with, "Is this actually a test of my cognitive abilities or whether I attended and paid attention in US history classes?"