Hey, wait – is employee performance Gaussian distributed?

Post by tptacek » Mon, Dec 09, 2024, 6:14 AM UTC

liontwist wrote: post #340

mjburgess wrote: post #329

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There is a "positive manifold" of results across test we call "intelligence tests", this is a property of the test data. What "IQ" does is take the mean of this and call it a property -- no such property exists. Consider athleticism: across all sporting activites there's a positive correlation of ability. Call it "athleticism". But people do not have "athleticism". If you break there leg some of these correlations di…

If you're willing to agree "IQ" is in the same realm "Athleticism" in terms of realism and heritability, then I have nothing more to say. There would be no question studying IQ is incredibly valuable. Sure, maybe there is no part of the human which is the IQ, and it's a merely a summary of other factors being expressed. I don't think IQ researchers ever claimed otherwise. Are you familiar with "entropy"? Isn't that a…