Interesting article, obviously written by someone of above average IQ who has had success day-trading. The market is 99% efficient, but that 1% allows smart people to make money consistently even as the left insists the market is rigged, a zero-sum game, or a bubble. The ‘blank-slate’ left believes that people can only succeed with… Continue reading How High-IQ People Make Money In The Stock Market
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Superior vs. Inferior People
I agree that egalitarianism and fat acceptance is bad, but ‘superior’ people are not those who try to specialize, but those who have the innate biological gifts to specialize in fields that pay money and garner recognition, such as specializing in mathematics, physics, coding, and stock trading. Yeah, if you have an IQ of 90… Continue reading Superior vs. Inferior People
Telling Fairy Tales To Spare Our Feelings
From Quora How can I be as great as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, and Richard Branson? Why can’t we have an honest debate about success and the role of IQ? Why do we need to lie to ourselves and then spread these lies to innocent victims, filling their heads with nonsense? Rhetorical question,… Continue reading Telling Fairy Tales To Spare Our Feelings
IQ Anxieties
There is a debate on Scott’s blog about the ‘Growth Mindset’, that boils down to nature vs. nurture. Noah posts a rebuttal, accusing Scott of ‘derp’. As long as IQ plays an increasingly important role in our increasingly competitive, winner-take-all economy, this issue will remain controversial. IQ is our new caste system, and these feel-good… Continue reading IQ Anxieties
Tesla’s Big Surprise. Don’t Bet Against High-IQ.
Tesla stock (TSLA) surged today (and in the after hours) on an announcement of a mystery product line, as tweeted by CEO Elon Musk: Major new Tesla product line — not a car — will be unveiled at our Hawthorne Design Studio on Thurs 8pm, April 30 — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 30, 2015 Due… Continue reading Tesla’s Big Surprise. Don’t Bet Against High-IQ.
IQ: More Than Just a Number, Part 2
Part 1: IQ: More than Just a Number From Scott’s Blog: 3. Some people seem to have gotten genuinely upset about some of the recent discussion of IQ, on grounds something like that if high IQ is a necessary ingredient of some forms of academic success and they’re lower-IQ than other people, then they are… Continue reading IQ: More Than Just a Number, Part 2
Terry Pratchett, IQ, Practice, and Mastery
Prolific fantasy author Terry Pratchett, who recently died of early-onset Alzheimer’s, inspired many wannabe fiction authors. But unless you’re a genius (as measured by raw intellect, not the vague label of ‘genius’ ascribed to people who demonstrate ‘skill’ at some subjective/useless activity like finger painting), better stick to writing non-fiction, or anything that isn’t too… Continue reading Terry Pratchett, IQ, Practice, and Mastery
IQ: More than Just a Number
This post isn’t topical, but it’s been sitting in my draft folder for awhile, so I may well publish it. It isn’t a stretch to saw we’re in a slow news cycle, with the usual Hilary and Ferguson headlines. The Obamacare subsidy Supreme Court decision won’t be announced until June (!), despite the justices having… Continue reading IQ: More than Just a Number
Our High-IQ Aristocracy
From Scott’s blog TALENTS PART 2: ATTITUDE VS. ALTITUDE Likewise, if we can just apply the same common reasoning we use for normal everyday activities like basketball to the question of intelligence, we might find it’s not so complicated and scary after all. Here’s why the basketball example doesn’t give peace of mind to those… Continue reading Our High-IQ Aristocracy
Much Needed IQ Realism in the Anti and Pro College Movements
There’s a misconception by the pro-college crowd that college is a stepping stone to success, or, according to the the anti-college crowd, that skipping college will give you an invaluable head-start in life. There are caveats to both of these, and the immutable laws of biology are to blame. College is just another IQ test,… Continue reading Much Needed IQ Realism in the Anti and Pro College Movements