Archive for March 14th, 2006

Wingnuts, the umpteenth iteration…

Tuesday, March 14th, 2006  hungry

I’ve found it!

My new favorite bunk science website. Man, I love me some wingnuts. Shaw ’nuff.

For those who might be tempted to believe, I’ll refer you to the relevant Wikipedia article, which seems to have a properly realistic take on the whole thing.

While y’all enjoy that, I’m off to build my own version of the “Lifter”. Also, I have some swampland and some bridges for sale, if anyone’s in the market. :P

  

Guess the body part. Guess the injury.

Tuesday, March 14th, 2006

Ok, here’s the first installment of the game. You have to guess what the picture is of and what happened to said part.

I’m going to post the picture after the jump since it’s so disturbing.

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We are the smartest guys?

Tuesday, March 14th, 2006

Steve Hsu has found a very interesting table with the average GRE scores computed for various concentrations. He has also defined a linear map translating the average V-Q-A scores into a more familiar IQ scale. This convention looks natural to me and I will follow his scale although it is not guaranteed that it is equally calibrated as other IQ measurements.

Disclaimer: these cold numbers must be interpreted very carefully. They don’t necessarily imply anything. The outcome depends on the character of the question, discrimination, etc. Despite different numbers, all of us are equal. Blah blah blah. And so on.

source

The results are:
130.0 Physics
129.0 Mathematics
128.5 Computer Science
128.0 Economics
127.5 Chemical engineering (more…)