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why is there such a wide IQ gap across "humanity"?
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Date: November 10th, 2025 9:46 AM Author: metaepistemology is trans the gap between someone like Gauss and an 80 IQ is enormous. doesn't make sense. if you look at other species across biology each organism generally has comparable abilities, at least within a reasonable range. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5795591&forum_id=2Ã#49416621) |
Date: November 10th, 2025 9:47 AM Author: toilet paper there are retarded dogs and cats and shit too imo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5795591&forum_id=2Ã#49416625) |
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Date: November 10th, 2025 9:50 AM Author: metaepistemology is trans yeah the gap between something like a top tier Egyptian Mau and some dumb mutt can be pretty wide but its nowhere close to the diff between Gauss and an 80 iq. even the diff between gaus and a 97th or 98th percentile IQ is fucking massive (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5795591&forum_id=2Ã#49416630) |
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Date: November 10th, 2025 9:51 AM Author: hummingbird the answer is there really isn't much of a gap, compared to the I'sQ of (eg) slime molds, rocks, mesohippus, etc. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5795591&forum_id=2Ã#49416634) |
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Date: November 10th, 2025 9:57 AM Author: metaepistemology is trans the spectrum is bigger from rock to slime mold to worm to human sure. but within a species there isn't a big gap apart from what you see in humans. in most animals the standard deviation in cognitive performance is relatively small--roughly a factor of 1.5-2 between the best and worst performers. in humans that gap can span orders of magnitude. and the question is why would *one* species have such wide *internal* spread (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5795591&forum_id=2Ã#49416645) |
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Date: November 10th, 2025 10:02 AM Author: hummingbird this is your biased human pov. if you were a horse, all humans would seem equally smart from your perspective but you could easily winnow out the smart & dumb horses (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5795591&forum_id=2Ã#49416655) |
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Date: November 10th, 2025 10:03 AM Author: hummingbird this is like looking at a newspaper with a scanning electron microscope and asking how come there's so much space between each letter. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5795591&forum_id=2Ã#49416656) |
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Date: November 10th, 2025 10:12 AM Author: metaepistemology is trans you are confusing perceptual compression with actual variance. humans would collapse into a smear to the horse because its cognitive sensors lack the bandwidth to distinguish the subtler gradations. thats an epistemic limitation. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5795591&forum_id=2Ã#49416689) |
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Date: November 10th, 2025 10:17 AM Author: WWED: What Would Emilio Do? (gunneratttt) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5795591&forum_id=2Ã#49416700) |
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Date: November 10th, 2025 9:58 AM Author: ,.,.,.,..,,.,..,:,,:,,.,:::,.,,.,:.,,.:.,:.,:.::,. Because there are many evolutionary survival strategies that work. Intelligence is just one and it’s actually one of the less effective ones. That’s why you don’t see it much in the animal kingdom and those species do just fine. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5795591&forum_id=2Ã#49416647) |
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Date: November 10th, 2025 10:17 AM Author: WWED: What Would Emilio Do? (gunneratttt) cr. that's why where food is abundant you find the dumbest people. what matters there is physically taking the resources. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5795591&forum_id=2Ã#49416699) |
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Date: November 10th, 2025 12:35 PM Author: ,.,.,.,..,,.,..,:,,:,,.,:::,.,,.,:.,,.:.,:.,:.::,. counterpoint: polar bears are retarded (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5795591&forum_id=2Ã#49417230) |
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Date: November 10th, 2025 11:42 PM Author: Pumonymous more importantly, so are inuit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5795591&forum_id=2Ã#49419431) |
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Date: November 10th, 2025 10:19 AM Author: WWED: What Would Emilio Do? (gunneratttt) we have the same morphological spectrum in physique too. a dindu isn't gonna split the atom and more than you're gonna beat one in a footrace. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5795591&forum_id=2Ã#49416704) |
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Date: November 10th, 2025 10:31 AM Author: metaepistemology is trans yeah or beat one at fucking a female to completion (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5795591&forum_id=2Ã#49416726) |
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Date: November 10th, 2025 12:11 PM Author: WWED: What Would Emilio Do? (gunneratttt) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5795591&forum_id=2Ã#49417118) |
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Date: November 10th, 2025 12:12 PM Author: Emotionally + Physically Abusive Ex-Husband (oppose bitchbois) Are you familiar with the concept of a "normal distribution"? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5795591&forum_id=2Ã#49417130) |
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Date: November 10th, 2025 12:20 PM Author: metaepistemology is trans are you familiar with the concept of "variance" among that normal distribution? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5795591&forum_id=2Ã#49417166) |
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Date: November 10th, 2025 12:24 PM Author: Emotionally + Physically Abusive Ex-Husband (oppose bitchbois) no (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5795591&forum_id=2Ã#49417177) |
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Date: November 10th, 2025 12:27 PM Author: metaepistemology is trans apparently not. normal distribution is the shape (bell curve). thats the form or symmetry not the spread. you can have a narrow bell curve or a wide one depending on the standard deviation. two populations can both have normal distributions but radically diff gaps between their least and most capable members (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5795591&forum_id=2Ã#49417186) |
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Date: November 10th, 2025 10:21 PM Author: Don Spaceporn De La Squancha (✅🍑) I think you’re taxing the poor guy beyond his limits, squabbling about boner pills is more his wheelhouse (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5795591&forum_id=2Ã#49419248) |
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Date: November 11th, 2025 12:53 AM Author: Diamond Dallas Trump it's embarrassing that he came trying to poast about "normal distribution" acting all cocky without even understanding the basics. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5795591&forum_id=2Ã#49419520) |
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Date: November 10th, 2025 12:13 PM Author: gibberish (?) What benefit in most environments does an IQ beyond subsistence provide? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5795591&forum_id=2Ã#49417136) |
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Date: November 10th, 2025 12:15 PM Author: Emotionally + Physically Abusive Ex-Husband (oppose bitchbois) Oh I can think of a few *greedily rubs palms together* |
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Date: November 10th, 2025 12:16 PM Author: gibberish (?) Chill with the antisemitism brah (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5795591&forum_id=2Ã#49417143) |
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Date: November 10th, 2025 11:36 PM Author: Madison Avenue Lemming Enslaved to Conformity If you’re suggesting that high iq havers get better jobs that are more likely to lead to reproducing, lol, just lol brother. Proles far outbreed richers. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5795591&forum_id=2Ã#49419428) |
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Date: November 10th, 2025 5:58 PM Author: ........,,,,,,......,.,.,.,,,,,,,,,, This is ironically a low IQ post.
Look at fucking penguins. They all look exactly the same.
But if you're a penguin, i'm sure you're like, wow look at how crazy different penguins look like!
Someone with a 90 IQ can basically do almost every single thing someone with an IQ of 130 can. The only differentiator is maybe the ability to do some math that the 130 IQ person never uses in real life. |
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Date: November 10th, 2025 7:29 PM Author: metaepistemology is trans I answered a similar point earlier. you are conflating phenomenological similarity ("penguins all look the same to us") and structural variance. basically you're mistaking coarse perceptual categories for objective equivalence.
also you are a literal retard if you think the only diff between 90 and 130 iq is some math noone uses. |
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Date: November 10th, 2025 10:14 PM Author: ........,,,,,,......,.,.,.,,,,,,,,,, Your responses earlier seemed to rely on the assumption that (i) we can measure IQ accurately, (ii) we can measure IQ accurately in animals, and (iii) you can extrapolate the deviations of animal IQ and measure it against human deviations.
Maybe you're right, but personally i have no clue if dogs have more or less variance in intelligence and not sure i trust any scientist who wastes his time studying it. |
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Date: November 11th, 2025 12:05 AM Author: .,.,,..,..,.,.,:,,:,...,:::,...,:,.,.:..:. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5795591&forum_id=2Ã#49419460) |
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Date: November 11th, 2025 12:54 AM Author: metaepistemology is trans no not really. the structural argument against variance vs. perception itself doesn't require animal psychometrics or even precise human psychometrics. there are observable functional discontinuities in human cognition that are too large to be explained by social labeling or perspective bias. Gauss reconstructing number theory from first principles in childhood isn't a matter of perception (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5795591&forum_id=2Ã#49419522) |
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Date: November 10th, 2025 10:40 PM Author: cell phones I’m not sure penguins really see much difference in each other. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5795591&forum_id=2Ã#49419312) |
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Date: November 10th, 2025 10:41 PM Author: i gave my cousin head Whats the iq gap between a shrimp and a a tuna (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5795591&forum_id=2Ã#49419316) |
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Date: November 10th, 2025 11:38 PM Author: Madison Avenue Lemming Enslaved to Conformity I ain’t got no quarrel with no shrimp. No shrimp ever winked at me while I was burned alive in a shrimp oven! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5795591&forum_id=2Ã#49419429) |