Titus Pullo
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join:2004-06-26
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Re: oops
said by calvoiper  :The rest of us are just disappointed at how easily the incumbent telco and cable players used the FCC to gut competition. What does anyone expect from unfettered capitalism? And this is a situation that's not likely to change in a nation of coprophagous consumer-bots with double-digit IQs .
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calvoiper
join:2003-03-31
Belvedere Tiburon, CA | So others don't have to look it up like I did....
"Coprophagous" means "dung eating."
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Titus Pullo
I came, I saw, I slept
join:2004-06-26
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| said by calvoiper :"Coprophagous" means "dung eating." calvoiper And is where cursory exposure to Latin pays dividends (pun intended). Copro: feces; phagous: eating.
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operagost
join:1999-08-02
Spring City, PA | reply to Titus Pullo
Re: oops
Looks like "karlmarx" just got a new ID. |
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calvoiper
join:2003-03-31
Belvedere Tiburon, CA | reply to Titus Pullo
Re: So others don't have to look it up like I did....
I suffered through a high school "cursory exposure to Latin," but my school was so repressed that the word for "dung" would never have been discussed.
calvoiper
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karlmarx
join:2006-09-18
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Re: oops
actually, no. But he's right on the money. Techically, about 50% of the population has a double digit IQ (how else could you explain republicans, the religious right, and creationists.
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ctgreybeard
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Re: So others don't have to look it up like I did....
said by Titus Pullo :And is where cursory exposure to Latin pays dividends (pun intended). Copro: feces; phagous: eating. It's Greek, actually, but a wonderful word none-the-less!
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Ahrenl
join:2004-10-26
North Andover, MA | reply to karlmarx
Re: oops
Actually an IQ number is an abstract concept where 100 was set to be the average. So EXACTLY 50% of the population SHOULD have double digit IQ's, otherwise 100 needs to be adjusted so that is true. |
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Titus Pullo
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join:2004-06-26
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Re: So others don't have to look it up like I did....
said by ctgreybeard :said by Titus Pullo :And is where cursory exposure to Latin pays dividends (pun intended). Copro: feces; phagous: eating. It's Greek, actually, but a wonderful word none-the-less! Wow, I had no idea the word would generate such, uh, interest -
It's all Greek to me! It stuck in my mind from studying Latin roots.
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dentman42
join:2001-10-02
Columbus, OH
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Re: oops
said by karlmarx :actually, no. But he's right on the money. Techically, about 50% of the population has a double digit IQ (how else could you explain republicans, the religious right, and creationists. Whereas single digit IQs must explain Democrats.
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kinabrew
join:2002-02-01
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Actually, no.
•Some people have an IQ of exactly 100. Take this hypothetical group of IQs of 10 people:
two: 110
six: 100
two: 90
This group has a mean IQ of 100, but only 2/10 people have a two-digit IQ.
•Variation may not be consistent in both directions. Take this hypothetical group of IQs of 10 people:
three: 110
six: 100
one: 70
This group has a mean IQ of 100, but three are above, six are exactly 100, and only one is below the mean(and only that one has a two-digit IQ).
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RIRWIN1983
join:2005-08-30
Columbus, OH | reply to dentman42
Booya! LOL |
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chotty
join:2004-07-12
Birmingham, AL
| reply to karlmarx
Or... on the other hand, how else could you explain Political Correctness, Defeatism, Self-Hatred, Group Think, The Elitist Thought Police, The ACLU or Marxist-lite Millionaires who know what's best for all and feel the pain of the oppressed? ... (just as long as they don't have to live next to them). |
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thedad
join:2002-07-04
Douglas, GA | Yeah! What he said! |
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grcore
New and Improved
join:2003-12-06
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said by dentman42 :Whereas single digit IQs must explain Democrats. And dectuple deficits come from Republicans, along with quintuple deaths in Iraq.
The power of numbers.... |
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Kirby Smith
join:2001-01-26
Derry, NH
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Actually, measured (by some test standard) intelligence of large groups fits the Normal distribution. The results are scaled so that the mean is 100 and the standard deviation is 15. In order for even the range between 70 and 130 to have meaning, thousands of samples are required. In this real case, half the population have an IQ of 100 or less, by definition.
The wider extremes are more difficult to evaluate. For example, Marilyn vos Savant's purported IQ of 190 or thereabouts is six standard deviations above the mean. There aren't enough samples tested by any standard test to establish that value from the test population. I suspect her IQ was extrapolated by scaling MENSA test results from its members IQ distribution.
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vinnie97
join:2003-12-05
Mesquite, TX | reply to chotty
Karl Marked, properly owned on this occasion. |
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calvoiper
join:2003-03-31
Belvedere Tiburon, CA
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said by grcore :...And dectuple deficits come from Republicans, along with quintuple deaths in Iraq. The power of numbers.... Yes, but numbers must be normalized and standardized. When recent deficits are adjusted for inflation and standardized as a percentage of GNP, they aren't outliers as so many would love the public to believe....
calvoiper
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Ahrenl
join:2004-10-26
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With very large sample sets, I believe, a normal distribution is achieved. So if you're just talking about the people in the room with you, then I agree, but if you're talking about 300m people, then that doesn't apply.
Edit: didn't see that someone had already reply'd with basically this same idea. |
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