John Cuthber

Awareness of what? Is a deaf blind person less intelligent?

There is no such thing as "American English". There is English; and there are mistakes. OTOH, "There are multiple pronunciations in current English use. More American dictionaries favor the pronunciation /ˈfʌn.dʒaɪ/ or /ˈfʌŋ.ɡaɪ/, while more British dictionaries favor the pronunciation /ˈfʌŋ.ɡiː/ or /ˈfʌn.dʒiː/. However, all four pronunciations are in use in both countries." From https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fungi#Pronunciation

Well, if you post stuff that is factually wrong, there are two possible reasons for it, Either you don't know, or you do know, but you are lying. I think Stringjunky gave you the benefit of the doubt. Also, by asking that question "How could you possibly know what I do or do not know?" you have made it clear that you don't understand how this sort of thing works. Then why do you make such obvious errors? Who said anything like that here? Got any evidence, or is that just (real) confirmation bias?

OK, the TLDR version is that you clearly have no idea what an IQ is and you should look it up. Yes I do know what a quotient is- it's a ratio. And an IQ is the ratio I mentioned before By convention it's expressed as a percentage. So someone whose physical and mental ages agree has an IQ of 100 (%) To find that ratio, you need to assess mental age. That's a matter (in principle) of asking lots of questions and finding what age gets the same number of right answers as the person whose IQ you seek to measure. So, if on average 8 year olds get 67 of the questions right, then someone who gets 67 of the questions right can be said to have a mental age of 8- regardless of their physical age. Obviously, the longer you give people, the more questions they are likely to get right- so you need to standardise the length of time given to answer the questions. So, until someone did lots of tests on lots of children, nobody could tell you anything about IQ. It seems you don't understand that IQ is a technical term rather than just some pair of letters that mean "some measure of intelligence". So, it's like saying that, prior to Mr Celsius inventing his temperature scale (upside down IIRC- but who cares) you couldn't say that you baked cakes at 180C. That doesn't mean you can't bake cakes- it means you can't put a number on the temperature. As for rebutting all the drivel about Vegas show girls, your failure to understand confirmation bias "Well he identified the lower IQ kids as needing help, but he missed the others, which is why I called it confirmation bias ",and so on... well I will come back to that. "Of course, no help was offered to the above average kids because they are so smart they don't need help. Right?" Well, I don't know about your school, but I got additional help specifically because I was an above average kid, so it's not "Right", but wrong. "but we do not want to help people that we perceive as above us" Speak for yourself... "scratch our heads and wonder why there is a disproportionate number of above average kids in our "drop outs" statistics." You might scratch your head. Personally, I think I have a pretty good idea. You can start with boredom. That's not a new idea. I already asked if you had forgotten what you were talking about; you seem to have done it again. "what I said, that originally testing for intelligence was to see who was capable of being educated." No what you said was You persistently fail to recognise that not all intelligence testing is IQ testing. OK "from or in the beginning; at first." As in Binet defined QI from the beginning as the ratio (or quotient) of mental age divided by the chronological age (multiplied by 100 to get rid of the decimal point). Prior to that beginning, the term IQ was not used. Nobody said he was the first intelligence tester. However he was the first IQ tester- and IQ is what this thread and your statement were about. "Because I am a philosopher, not a scientist, a false premise is going to grab my attention," How come you were not grabbed by the false premise that all intelligence testing is IQ testing? Well, I said I'd get back to summarising your whole post. and you did it repeatedly. Go and learn some of the history of measurement of intelligence. You might start with this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mismeasure_of_Man

Yes. that is certainly "material", but I didn't see any examples of where there's a conflict between UK and EU law. If you can find any, please start another thread, rather than cluttering this one with something totally off- topic. The evidence suggests that we changed our minds when it became clear we had been lied to.

Not that it's relevant but; No. That's not true. The British parliament remained sovereign. It still is. Cite an example... Anyway, it's interesting to note that the "majority" of senators who supported Kavanaugh are the elected representatives of a clear minority of the US population. There's a serious problem with that sort of "democracy".

That's one way to describe undoing the last few hundred thousand years of human evolution.

Famous isn't the same as popular. A mass murderer is likely to become famous.

I thnk you will have more luck looking on web sites that specialise in perfumes.

I can't help wondering who thought that post should be marked down. Perhaps someone pushed the wrong button.

https://xkcd.com/285/ A single whisky contains about 10 grams of alcohol and has a measurable toxic effect on a 70Kg human. Most of the essential oils used in perfume are much more toxic than than ethanol or isopropanol. Fragrance of what? Did you mean perfumes instead? Use of the word "fragrance" in that way is perfectly legitimate. You are not in a position to lecture people on use of English.

If you do that they will no longer be the same thing. They will smell different.

The comparison has been made that hitting water is like hitting concrete. You could, in principle, build a water slide out of concrete. In principle, the limit to how big a water slide you would survive is based on oxygen deprivation, and the fact that the water would boil at that altitude (rather than the fall). So, you might get a wave whose surface acted like a giant water slide. However, if you were that lucky, you wouldn't fall out of a plane in the first place.

Most of them.

It's possible that- due to freak wave/ wind etc conditions, people have survived falling from aircraft into water. We wouldn't usually know because they would subsequently drown and become fish food.

In my experience it depends what's underneath. If you are covering over some other colour or pattern you need several coats to do it. If you miss patches in one of the coats you can see the underlying surface through it.

Just a thought. Emulsion paint dries because the water evaporates and that draws in heat. In principle, a sensitive thermal camera could spot the wet paint. If you chose a camera with the right spectral sensitivity and a light source of the right wavelengths, it could "see" the liquid water. You might even be able to find a setup where an IR camera could distinguish the pink paint from the white.

No, but that's a nice try a a strawman. I am stating that IQ didn't exist before someone defined the quotient (mental age / chronological age) as the intelligence quotient- abbreviated to IQ. And Binet did that- because he was paid to. Had you forgotten what you were talking about when you said this? You (like the thread) specifically referred to IQ testing.

It seems you are what Binet may have described as an ineducable idiot. Binet invented the IQ scale. He did so because he was paid to, byt the French government. can't be right because- as you say Before his time he hadn't invented IQ testing. (Obviously) Here's the time line for you And, a bit later Binet invented IQ. So, by the time IQ was invented, the argument had already been finished. So this doesn't make sense Just claiming you think you are right doesn't alter history.

For about 16 hours a day, maybe. When he's asleep... not so much. Many animals are patient.

Or as "wrong about the same things which I'm wrong about".

Other brands/ stores are available but... https://www.diy.com/departments/dulux-brilliant-white-matt-emulsion-paint-2-5l/1759077_BQ.prd?utm_source=google_cpc&utm_medium=shopping&utm_campaign=PX_GSC_Surfaces_+_Generic&ppc_type=shopping&ds_kids=92700029904931240&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIocPn9JLs3QIVRLTtCh2yWQXzEAQYASABEgIUD_D_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds&dclid=COO8-_aS7N0CFUVFGwodVYkKqg

You have misunderstood. "The French Ministry of Education asked psychologist Alfred Binet to devise a method that would determine which students did not learn effectively from regular classroom instruction so they could be given remedial work. " From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Binet Assessing whether an IQ test measures intelligence presupposes that you can define intelligence. It is, of course, possible to define "intelligence" as "the thing that makes you good at IQ tests"- in which case, yes, it certainly measures it.

It is certainly rare for any animal to outrun a (fit healthy) human over a long distance. However... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iditarod_Trail_Sled_Dog_Race

Nope. People in the backgrounds of some shots in public places are just the people who were there.