Is Psychometric g a Myth? - "As an online discussion about IQ or general intelligence grows longer, the probability of someone linking to statistician Cosma Shalizi's essay
g, a Statistical Myth approaches 1. Usually the link is accompanied by an assertion to the effect that Shalizi offers a definitive refutation of the concept of general mental ability, or psychometric
g."
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posted by kliuless
on Apr 11, 2013 -
113 comments
In the world of violins, the names Stradivari and Guarneri are sacred. For three centuries, violin-makers and scientists have studied the instruments made by these Italian craftsmen. So far no one has figured out what makes their sound different. But a new study now suggests maybe
they aren't so different after all.
posted by unSane
on Jan 2, 2012 -
108 comments
Purity tests! From the olden days of Usenet: A purity test attempts to gauge how "pure" you are within some realm of experience by having you answer a list of questions regarding which acts, etc. associated with the subject you have engaged in. Generally, for each "yes" answer you lose a purity point. The result is scaled to tell you what percentage of purity you still retain. [more inside]
posted by marble
on Nov 10, 2011 -
75 comments
Reviewing Netflix's 'Example Short 23.976.' Netflix has subsequently released the short in a variety of forms and at various lengths, in one case looping it for a full eight hours in a version that many viewers compared to Andy Warhol's 1964 film Empire.
In another case the film was compiled into "a sample show with many episodes" titled Example TV Mega-series 700,
containing exactly 700 episodes.
posted by shakespeherian
on Jun 28, 2011 -
17 comments
Shared social responsibility -
When customers could pay what they wanted in the knowledge that half of that would go to charity, sales and profits went through the roof ... Gneezy describes the combination of charitable donations and paying what you like as 'shared social responsibility', where businesses and customers work together for the public good. (via
mr) [also see
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2,
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posted by kliuless
on Jul 28, 2010 -
19 comments
ICSI Netalyzr is a java applet that performs an impressive collection of tests on your Internet connection, and reports the results back to you (and to the ICSI) in an easily readable format.
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posted by FishBike
on Jan 14, 2010 -
96 comments
Knowledge Score is a general knowledge quiz game. Categories include Art, Astronomy, Food and Drink, Geography, History, Literature, Movies, Politics, Music, Economics, Languages, Sports, Math and more. If you want to try out Knowledge Score without registering, use the "Play as guest" feature.
posted by netbros
on Oct 24, 2009 -
25 comments
Think you can stump the Elbot? Give it a try. Maybe your interaction will enable it to "learn" an extra 10% more to pass the 30% threshold of the Turing Test. The test is to fool a panel of people who talk with AI entities via text and guess if it's a real person or a robot.Mr Smarty Pants where are you?
posted by goodhelp
on Oct 13, 2008 -
93 comments
How's your hues? Test your color hue ability with
this online test. Horizontally drag 'n' drop the squares in the correct hue order.
posted by zardoz
on Sep 16, 2008 -
220 comments
Wallettest. "...Each of the 100 wallets contained $2.10 in real money, a fake $50.00 gift certificate, some miscellaneous items and a clearly written ID card identifying the lost wallet's rightful owner. We were curious as to how honest people would be and wanted to see how different groups would compare to each other. For example, who would return the wallets more often... men or women? Young or old?"
Results.
posted by goo
on Oct 3, 2007 -
103 comments
Like the
US, the
UK, and
Canada before it, Australia has recently announced that, as part of its new citizenship guidelines, prospective citizens
must pass a test with
questions relating to Australian history, society, and culture. Not everyone is a
fan of the test, though, or the information on it, and today The Age has released
its own suggestions for a citizenship test. Could you pass it?
posted by mosessis
on Aug 29, 2007 -
70 comments
The new age of ignorance. A panel of well known (UK) scientists and artists are
asked some basic questions about science.
Except the questions weren't that basic (since when is the
Second Law of Thermodynamics considered basic knowledge?) so the results weren't surprising... although some of the answers were amusing ("The sky is blue because the sea reflects on it.").
The worrying thing is that the questions could have been much simpler ("How many planets are there in the Solar System?") and I suspect the results would have been much the same. Meanwhile,
ignorance marches on.
posted by bobbyelliott
on Jul 1, 2007 -
127 comments
Are you a Highly Sensitive Person? This trait ... is inherited by 15 to 20% of the population, and ... seems to be present in all higher animals. Being an HSP means your nervous system is more sensitive to subtleties. Your sight, hearing, and sense of smell are not necessarily keener .... But your brain processes information and reflects on it more deeply. Being an HSP also means, necessarily, that you are more easily overstimulated, stressed out, overwhelmed. This trait ... has been mislabeled as shyness (not an inherited trait), introversion (30% of HSPs are actually extraverts), inhibitedness, fearfulness, and the like. HSPs can be these, but none of these are the fundamental trait they have inherited
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posted by grumblebee
on Apr 8, 2007 -
150 comments
