StringJunky

Aye. Focus on the outliers is not the best use of resources.

They were originally designed to measure those with severe cognitive issues and brain damage to see where their abilities lie and provide focussed assistance. It was meant for a limited set of disabled people, not to look at the full gamut of human abilities, which of course is vast. A fish that can't climb trees is not 'unintelligent'. It annoys me greatly that millions of people likely erroneously label themselves as thick, and others who attain high scores as 'better' overall than those with lower scores. MENSA is a vanity organisation imo.

Maybe you are not so hot on the skillset that's being measured, which is very narrow. Your strengths likely lie in other skills and abilities that are not covered in those tests..

You aren't so clever today! Just kidding. Online tests are a toy without professional evaluation for the right reasons. I would give them a wide berth.

If you were introducing the wines of France to someone, you wouldn't suggest them all at once, would you?

Concise exposition seems to be outside his MO.... one must must read whole libraries that he provides. When he asserted I wasn't an academic (I'm not), I just dismissed his approach as that of an academic snob, for whom I am not worthy to parlez with.

Right.

What about level of dispersal within the host country; the tendency to gather or disperse in where one lives with others of the same culture/ethnicity? Some groups seem to take up whole streets. Having high mono-ethnic densities might be an aggravating factor for the indigenous population?

TFFT.

A species needs diversity to survive adversity.

I like that there is a little bit of mess because it indicates that individual freedom of thought is well-catered for, up to a sensible point. There are 'better' forums in the sense that rigor is more enforced, but I think they are more for the dedicated and academic that want it strict. Also, I think everyone naturally comes in with different levels of objectivity. Some new ones might start out shallow, as you say, but gain insight with exposure to more experienced debaters/critical thinkers. The ones that don't learn almost always move on, either voluntarily or with assistance.

Yes, it is the rate of immigration that determines how they will be received, I think.

Yes, ultimately, it's up to them.

Politics is what I would call a 'grey' subject, bringing in a multitude of approaches... as is human sociology, which is what politics is part of.

Why you in particular? The only scientific part really is statistics, which are presented as required, generally.

It's a LONG time ago since that bird flew away. Not all subjects are amenable to pure scientific discussion.

Right. Thanks. Yes, that makes good sense. I forgot about placing the unused carbon bonds and what might be on them: hydrogen.

You are moving the goalposts, intimidation with the sight of a gun, not actually shooting people was the focus there... it's not relevant.

How do you know that? Are the actual shapes a standard convention for those groups?

Um, I don't think anyone will be intimidated by someone with a gun at 600 yards in a place milling with loads of people.... maybe on somewhere like Salt Lake flats with few people around.

Something about this is mentioned in Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/world/market-chinas-wuhan-likely-origin-covid-19-outbreak-study-2021-11-19/

If the atoms aren't denoted, I think they are assumed to be carbon atoms.

Walking over the same old ground is not going to come up with anything new. Peterkin is relatively new, so I can forgive him. Everything like that is in the SFN archives to peruse.

A lot of new science is actually conjecture, with only mathematical credibility and no actual measurements, like dark matter. "All models are wrong but some are useful". Most of the internet, outside of here and a few others, is receptive to personal pet theories.

Theories in science are longstanding and evidentially well-supported. You are talking about hypotheses, which may be transient and purely speculative... a starting point.