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@roger,

A winning approach to pandemics. Admirable vision of governance.

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I keep forgetting to post this when our resident brainiac starts up his bullsh*t. So called "intelligence quotient" tests do not measure intelligence, it measures enculturation. Blacks have known this at least since the Great War, when tests decided they'd be best at manual labor. When Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon invented the test in 1904, that's just what they intended. As crusading French educators, they wanted a test which could assure then that the little brown babies and little yellow babies in the French empire would imbibe French culture just as the little white babies in France did. Lewis Terman at Stanford University reworked their test for English-speakers and touted it as an intelligence test in 1916--just in time for that racist puke Woodrow Wilson to give it to military before the U.S. entered the Great War.

Researchers have determined in the largest online study on the intelligence quotient (IQ) that results from the test may not exactly show how smart someone is.

So should the IQ test that has provided bragging rights for so many be discontinued or discredited?

Not so fast, he says. “Some very valuable research has been carried out using classical IQ testing. However, IQ is a massive oversimplification of the spectrum of human cognitive ability.”

Kids who score higher on IQ tests will, on average, go on to do better in conventional measures of success in life: academic achievement, economic success, even greater health, and longevity. Is that because they are more intelligent? Not necessarily. New research concludes that IQ scores are partly a measure of how motivated a child is to do well on the test. And harnessing that motivation might be as important to later success as so-called native intelligence.

Our very own Einstein here claims to have an IQ of 170. Leaving aside that such a score is no measure of intelligence, certainly not a comprehensive one--the test I took in high school had a possible maximum score of 180. He got 170 our of 180 points? Yeah . . . right . . . don't piss down my leg and tell me it's raining.

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Jeet Heer
@HeerJeet
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I'm beginning to think I shouldn't have followed Lawrence Kudlow's financial advice to "buy at the dip."

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@MontereyJack,

MontereyJack wrote:

You pretend that all the arguments that show they are stupid don't exist. They do. they are.

The fact that no one can ever provide such arguments is evidence that such arguments do not exist.

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@Setanta,

Setanta wrote:

I keep forgetting to post this when our resident brainiac starts up his bullsh*t.

When no one can point out any untrue statements in my posts, that is a strong indication that there is no BS in them.

Setanta wrote:

So called "intelligence quotient" tests do not measure intelligence, it measures enculturation.

That is incorrect. IQ tests can and do measure intelligence.

Claims that minimize such tests are designed to make low-scorers feel good about themselves.

Setanta wrote:

the test I took in high school had a possible maximum score of 180. He got 170 our of 180 points? Yeah . . . right . . . don't piss down my leg and tell me it's raining.

Facts remain facts even if you refuse to accept them.

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Cuomo Prime Time
@CuomoPrimeTime
· Mar 6
Former Democratic Sen. Al Franken on coronavirus says we need to talk "about Donald Trump and how awful he is as not just a President but as a human being."

"When you have a crisis like this, the strongest thing you can bring to it as a leader is credibility…he has none."

Can we get an AMEN!

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@oralloy,

I have pointed out your errors again and again. You just pretend I haven't and ignore any outside sources. Such as your claim that the USAAF did not firebomb Dresden. Such as you claim that the crusades were launched to prevent a Muslim invasion of Europe. You are wrong again and again. That you aren't willing to admit it doesn't change that fact. Speaking of facts, you habitually offer an opinion, and having repeated it once or twice, you then pretend that it is a fact. It is your moronic performance on a number of topics here that leads me not to believe your bullshs*t story about your alleged intelligence.

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@Setanta,

In my many years on sites like this one, I cannot recall another instance where an individual thought it necessary to bring up his/her IQ as backup for arguments/claims. Or for any reason, actually.

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Manu Raju
@mkraju
· 13m
Ted Cruz becomes the first member of Congress to announce he will self-quarantine after interaction with individual from CPAC who tested positive for Covid-19. He will be in Texas for the next two weeks.

If this individual interacted with Schlapp and Cruz, he/she's likely a relatively prominent figure, as emptywheel has pointed out.

But in any case, a quarantined Ted Cruz is not my idea of a blow to the Republic.

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From Margaret Sullivan

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...What [political reporters] are not obsessed with, sadly, is the very core of Election Day: voting itself.

“The media has a huge role to play in helping things to go well,” said Richard Hasen, a law professor at the University of California at Irvine and the author of “Election Meltdown: Dirty Tricks, Distrust and the Threat to American Democracy.”

But, Hasen said, that has to happen now, not in September or October when it’s too late.

If journalists turn their searchlights on potential problems, Hasen told me, they can help prevent “situations where losers don’t accept the results as legitimate.”...

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@Setanta,

Setanta wrote:

I have pointed out your errors again and again.

Except, none of those claimed errors were actually errors. Everything that I said is true.

Setanta wrote:

You just pretend I haven't and ignore any outside sources.

Outside sources agree with me. I certainly do not ignore that.

Setanta wrote:

Such as your claim that the USAAF did not firebomb Dresden.

My claim is that US bombers did not cause the infamous firestorm that destroyed the city. That firestorm was caused (deliberately) by British bombers.

US bombers attacked the railyards, and did not cause any firestorm in Dresden.

My claim is entirely correct. The bombing of Dresden is well documented, and that documentation confirms everything that I said.

Setanta wrote:

Such as you claim that the crusades were launched to prevent a Muslim invasion of Europe.

My claim is that the crusades were a just war of self defense against Islamic aggression.

Again my claim is entirely correct. The motivations for the crusades are also well-documented. Muslims ravaged the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. Then they invaded the Byzantine Empire.

And of course they invaded the holy land itself some centuries earlier.

Setanta wrote:

You are wrong again and again.

That is incorrect. History shows very clearly that my claims are correct.

Setanta wrote:

That you aren't willing to admit it doesn't change that fact.

It's not a fact. History very clearly agrees with my claims.

Setanta wrote:

Speaking of facts, you habitually offer an opinion, and having repeated it once or twice, you then pretend that it is a fact.

You cannot provide any examples of me having ever done such a thing.

Setanta wrote:

It is your moronic performance on a number of topics here that leads me not to believe your bullshs*t story about your alleged intelligence.

The fact that no one can show any errors in my posts shows that my performance is perfectly adequate.

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@blatham,

blatham wrote:

In my many years on sites like this one, I cannot recall another instance where an individual thought it necessary to bring up his/her IQ as backup for arguments/claims. Or for any reason, actually.

I know you have no honor blatham, but don't be so dishonorable. I have never brought up my IQ as a backup for my claims.

It is you guys who bring up my IQ in a futile attempt to back up your failing claims.

Are you even capable of being truthful?

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@blatham,

Remember Dave?? He would shill for new members in mensa's Special Interest Groups.
He would send e-pacs with exploratory invitations about how a SIG in one subject or another would make ones hobbies, life, or even career choices so much more fullfilling by having input from "smart amateurs"

(As long as you payed yer dues and took the silly tests). I dont think anyone sank below the mensa threshold

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@farmerman,

No, I don't have any recollection of the fellow. I never looked into any Mensa-associated topics there. I was about to once when my mother's ghost slapped me in the forehead, screeching, "You think you're some kind of Einstein? You flunked third grade. Your aunt Beulah's sofa has a higher IQ than you." Then she kissed me and was gone.

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Nelly
@Bryan_919
· 1h
Replying to @Chris_arnade and @TheStalwart
You can now buy 2 barrels of crude oil for less than a liter of Purell

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'White pride’ hoax: Woman arrested for ‘pulling a Jussie Smollett’

Proof, to me, racism is not as bad as the MSM and whining pundits say, when you have to do this to keep racism alive. The punishment for making people think they are hated so much by another race should be a stiff one.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2020/03/08/white-pride-hoax-woman-arrested-for-pulling-a-jussie-smollett-895151

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Psychiatrist Says That “Sociopath” Trump Is Getting Much Worse

Prominent Harvard psychiatrist Dr. Lance Dodes is warning the American public that Donald Trump’s mental capacities are getting much, much worse, and he warned that the President is exhibiting clearly sociopathic characteristics. We continue to ignore the warnings of mental health professionals at our own peril, but this is an issue that cannot be ignored. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.

Published March 7, 2020

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@oralloy,

On February 14 th and 15th, 1945, the Eighth United States Army Air Force dropped 1,475.9 tons of incendiary bombs on Dresden. Source at the United States Air Force Historical Division, from a Research Studies Institute report, 1945.

As for the crusades, you initially claimed they had been necessary to prevent a Muslim invasion of Europe. The Holy Land (sic) was no part of Europe, and therefore the Seljuk Turks' invasion was no threat to Europeans or Christianity. You originally claimed that the first crusade was launched to prevent a Muslim invasion of Europe. When you saw that wouldn't fly, you changed your tune, and now pretend that you had never said that--which is typical of your rhetorical style.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/Byzantium1173.JPG

As can be seen from the map above, dated at 1180 CE, the Turks were nowhere near an invasion of Europe. You are, however, completely unable to ever admit that you are wrong, or that you have made a mistake. That's OK, though, the rest of know how often you are full of sh*t.

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@Real Music,

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Psychiatrist Says That “Sociopath” Trump Is Getting Much Worse

That is not a psychiatrist, that is a quack looking to make money hating Trump.

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