Whenever I say "men are taller than women on average," someone will respond, "I know a woman who's taller than most men."
Why do people have so much trouble with statistical averages?
Whenever I say "Pit bulls cause the most fatalities per capita," someone will respond, "I know a Labrador that bit someone on the leg."
Why do people have so much trouble admitting pit bulls are dangerous?
In 2005, verbal analogies were removed from the SAT. This was partly due to higher failure rates among minority students.
Do you think verbal analogies are culturally biased?
“If there is nothing that someone with an IQ below 83 can do in the Army, what makes you think there is something they can do in the general population?”
- Jordan Peterson
I’ve yet to hear a good answer to this.
Many have no idea what 130 IQ actually means. Below is a graph of college majors by average IQ and gender ratio.
Physics students are typically in this range.
Most geniuses throughout history have been male. Female IQ tends to cluster at the average, and male IQ at the extremes. Camille Paglia had it right:
“There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.”
This genuine spatial ability task shows bottles filled with water. The bottles have been tilted.
Which bottle correctly shows how the waterline would look?
Whenever I say "First born children are smarter on average," someone will respond, "Not true my second born is the smartest."
Why do so many people have trouble with statistical averages?