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Old 30th July 2020, 02:37 AM   #1881
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This thread does reek of onions.
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Old 30th July 2020, 03:12 AM   #1882
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Originally Posted by Darat View Post
This thread does reek of onions.
At least they cover up the dead cats.
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Old 30th July 2020, 06:29 AM   #1883
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Originally Posted by PartSkeptic View Post
I had to make adjustments to the guillotine valve to get the machine working reliably. It is my opinion that the Pneumatics Specialists (in SA? Hard to find - most have emigrated) put in cup washers on the pistons that are way too stiff. It worked in the summer but not in the cold. The valve was warm from my car when I installed the modified valve and then it worked. I had to increase the spring tension and decrease the inlet air pressure today when it mis-operated in the cold.
Am I the only person who fails to see the point behind these interminable anecdotes? Why are you telling us these pointless stories? They've got nothing to do with anything.
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Old 30th July 2020, 07:49 AM   #1884
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Originally Posted by PartSkeptic View Post
I found the IQ test with 50 questions in 15 minutes.
Literally no one cares. You're going out of your way to brag anecdotally -- [groan] again -- about how exceptional you are. Literally no one here believes you. Literally no one here cares. The only reason IQ was mentioned in this thread was to praise you (prematurely, It seems) for not being so foolish as to try to make it part of the discussion.

You claim your household electronics are giving you headaches. You can either provide evidence for that claim that skeptics find convincing, or you cannot.
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Old 30th July 2020, 08:00 AM   #1885
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Am I the only person who fails to see the point behind these interminable anecdotes? Why are you telling us these pointless stories? They've got nothing to do with anything.
As near as I can tell, the point of the stories is to remind us at every turn how exceptional PartSkeptic is, and how disrespectful we're being.
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Old 30th July 2020, 08:19 AM   #1886
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Originally Posted by PartSkeptic View Post
I found the IQ test with 50 questions in 15 minutes.

Each one only took me a few seconds. At an average of 18 seconds a question, I reckon I could do it again in possibly half the time. I only found a few that I needed a bit more time to think if I had the right answer. To be sure I understood the question.

I wonder why they said it was impossible to get 50 out of 50? Do not cheat and see what you guys get. Have someone download for you and time you. Pencils down precisely at the end. No saying "One second more as I am about to write the answer."

It is a speed test, and one needs accuracy. At the time, I expected it to be difficult, so I paced myself and focused on steady reading and writing of answers. The reading and writing the answers takes a little time. Recording the answers with a recorder, or having someone write them would save time but that is not the way the test is done.

I will post it. It is a very bad scan, so it will take a bit of time to type it out. My curiosity now has me wondering. I may do it today, but it may only be Saturday.

I had to make adjustments to the guillotine valve to get the machine working reliably. It is my opinion that the Pneumatics Specialists (in SA? Hard to find - most have emigrated) put in cup washers on the pistons that are way too stiff. It worked in the summer but not in the cold. The valve was warm from my car when I installed the modified valve and then it worked. I had to increase the spring tension and decrease the inlet air pressure today when it mis-operated in the cold.

Here is the valve with the mods. The top O-ring seals on the piston top blow-off part can be seen.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FgA...ew?usp=sharing

I am practical. Before I went to Wits I was on a technicians course. I did two years before I got the bursary to Wits U. Part of the course was an accelerated apprenticeship course. I reckon it would benefit most young people. That and 3 months basic army training. And our artisans would have at least some basics. Most in SA worked with and watched a professional and then have a sign saying "Plumber" outside a hardware store.
This is getting Abe Simpson-esque.
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Old 30th July 2020, 08:54 AM   #1887
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This is getting Abe Simpson-esque.
Nailed it.

I was thinking on his statement about getting top marks for his first year Uni degree. Funny that, I did the same - the reason being that I also did a technician’s course before I went to Uni (after 2 years of military service, but that’s another story).

Point is, after 2 years of tech, first year Uni is really easy - the only real challenge is the exponential increase in workload. I don’t know specifically what institution PS attended, but I found that I was way ahead of the standard first years after two extra years of studying subjects not taught at school and two years in a high stress dangerous environment dealing with idiots and people who wanted to kill me.

Aside: if I had the choice, I would have rather opted out of the military part, but at least I made the best of it. It was a crazy time best left forgotten.

Tech gave me a very good practical intro into electronics, which helped me right through my degree/s.
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Old 30th July 2020, 09:09 AM   #1888
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Have we gotten anecdotes yet on how PS is also a prodigy in arts, history and any other subject he sets his mind to?

Of course unverifiable anecdotes are the best he has, because any time he actually tries to engage in science his large inadequacies show quickly.

Oh by the way PS, I took the test. I decided to ignore it the first 17 minutes while looking at birdsigns, then filled in all the questions blindly. But I'm so intelligent, I got an IQ of 238. True story, my wife was in the room.
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Old 30th July 2020, 09:31 AM   #1889
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Back in the long ago, the maxim of many I knew was that if you had actually learned anything in high school, the first year of college is wasted. It's true. Most of that first year was taken up with trying to bring students up to the level of the lies they'd told to get in.
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Old 30th July 2020, 09:39 AM   #1890
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Originally Posted by Lukraak_Sisser View Post
Have we gotten anecdotes yet on how PS is also a prodigy in arts, history and any other subject he sets his mind to?
He's told us on more than one occasion how awesome his memory is (he's also told us that electrosmog has caused him memory problems, so whatever), which I think means we should take all his anecdotes at face value because he remembers everything so well, things never get confused or embellished in his memory, that only happens to mere plebs with regular memories.
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Old 30th July 2020, 09:50 AM   #1891
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Back in the long ago, the maxim of many I knew was that if you had actually learned anything in high school, the first year of college is wasted. It's true. Most of that first year was taken up with trying to bring students up to the level of the lies they'd told to get in.

Just about. For example, first year maths was basically high school maths with quadruple the content, 10 times the amount of students and homework, and no spoon feeding. For most students it was their trial by fire.
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Just about. For example, first year maths was basically high school maths with quadruple the content, 10 times the amount of students and homework, and no spoon feeding. For most students it was their trial by fire.
Things have, of course, changed a bit since that oh so long ago time I went to college, but at that time, some places, the University of Connecticut for example, practiced nearly open admission, and the first year was openly declared a time of "accelerated attrition." I had gone to a private high school with pretty high academic standards, and for me, it was a sweat-free year. The English course was closer to my eighth grade than my 12th, and the history course used the same text I'd had in 11th. We did have a really nice drama course, part of the homework was to go out on weekends and see plays, and the teacher was a true lover of drama. I liked that one!
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Old 30th July 2020, 10:16 AM   #1893
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Things have, of course, changed a bit since that oh so long ago time I went to college, but at that time, some places, the University of Connecticut for example, practiced nearly open admission, and the first year was openly declared a time of "accelerated attrition." I had gone to a private high school with pretty high academic standards, and for me, it was a sweat-free year. The English course was closer to my eighth grade than my 12th, and the history course used the same text I'd had in 11th. We did have a really nice drama course, part of the homework was to go out on weekends and see plays, and the teacher was a true lover of drama. I liked that one!
"Accelerated attrition" - classic! Yeah, first year is pretty much a winnowing experience.

I hear you on English - I had the extreme pleasure of being taught by a young and brilliant teacher when I was 16 (trying to circumvent grading), who instilled in me an everlasting love of language, theatre and the arts.

You get good teachers and mediocre ones. The good ones I remember vividly.
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Old 30th July 2020, 10:35 AM   #1894
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Exactly. Hell, at our house in Simonstown we get cobras, porcupines, caracal, baboons, mongoose (mongeese? ), to name a few. And that’s in a city environment. When I lived in Johannesburg we regularly came across cobras, puff adders and sometimes even black mambas. We even found a boomslang in one of our trees once, but that was a very rare and special sighting.

He’s saying he thinks a cobra slithering near his foot was some sort of omen? On a farm??
When I was in Obo in Central African Republic, our locally hired interpreters used to spend their down-time killing the cobras they found in our compound. If their presence is an omen it's certainly an overused one.
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When I was in Obo in Central African Republic, our locally hired interpreters used to spend their down-time killing the cobras they found in our compound. If their presence is an omen it's certainly an overused one.

OK, WTF were you doing in Obo? That's the epitome of deepest darkest Africa.

(If you say missionary work I'm going to have to seriously re-evaluate our relationship)

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Have we gotten anecdotes yet on how PS is also a prodigy in arts, history and any other subject he sets his mind to?
Now we certainly will, glad you brought it up
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Now we certainly will, glad you brought it up

Wait, wait, I had a fleeting thought....

PartSkeptic, why not tell us what fields you actually are an expert in, and we can work from there?

It would clear up a lot of conjecture, and then we could focus on the EM radiation test.
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Old 30th July 2020, 11:26 AM   #1898
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Wait, wait, I had a fleeting thought....

PartSkeptic, why not tell us what fields you actually are an expert in, and we can work from there?

It would clear up a lot of conjecture, and then we could focus on the EM radiation test.
All of them, apparently.
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Old 30th July 2020, 06:14 PM   #1899
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Am I the only person who fails to see the point behind these interminable anecdotes? Why are you telling us these pointless stories? They've got nothing to do with anything.
I suggest this may be a psychological issue related to claiming non-existent medical disorders (Munchhausen Syndrome)

"A pathological liar is someone who lies compulsively......Some lies seem to be told in order to make the pathological liar appear the hero, or to gain acceptance or sympathy, while there’s seemingly nothing to be gained from other lies."
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Mmmm. So If I said I was tested at 17 as having an IQ of 147, got 5 out 5 distinctions in first year varsity, was accused by teachers at high school of cheating because my marks were impossibly high, of having a patent with machines that became the world standard, of having scored an impossible score in an IQ test at the age of 51, and a long list of other intellectual achievements, you would say I am lying?
Absolutely.

How many forum members have seen the Tim Burton movie "Big Fish"? It's a match to the content of this thread.
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This seemed appropriate for the tactics of some posters on this thread.

Dogbert to Dilbert: "I stopped using good arguments because sarcasm works better."
Dilbert replies: "That does not sound like a productive thing to do."
Dogbert: "Oooh, look who's an expert on productivity now."

Anyone recognize themselves? (no sarcastic responses, please )

I was in bad shape yesterday. Had to take two pain tablets. It seems to be remnants of the flu. How does one determine whether it was/is Covid? Many countries are recommending one goes to self-isolate for 14 days rather than go to a doctor or get tested, and only get medical help if the condition worsens.

Seem better today. May try another modem test this afternoon.
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I left school (and home) at 16 with £5 in my pocket that I'd earned doing a Saturday job in Woolworths. I got a job at GCHQ winding coils, wiring circuits and making the tea for £9 a week, which even in 1970 was practically slave labour. The one advantage was they were happy to pay for me to do day release as long as I wanted, and I was able to get ONC and HNC in electronics and a degree in Mathematics. Took eight years all together, one day and two evenings (plus a ******** of homework) a week. I then moved into industry where I quickly advanced to management level ...

Hang on, why am I telling you all this? What relevance does it have to this thread? None whatever, of course.

Nobody cares what your IQ is, or what your skills are, or how much you think you impressed your lecturers 50 years ago, PartSkeptic. We're sceptics. The only thing we care about is the quality of the evidence with which you can support your claims. So tell us about that, and drop the irrelevant bragging.

Good for you.

Why tell me? It increases my estimation of you and make me more likely to assess any of your posts with regard to how I answer them.

This is not a science exercise to derive a proof. It is akin to a courtroom where the witnesses have to be examined with regard to their credentials, their mental competence, and their rationality - as well as their honesty.

If I do not demonstrate the characteristics of your typical woo/conspiracy theorist/religious extremist/etc then it becomes difficult for posters to be dismissive of the experiences and events I have been through. I get criticized for not having the intelligence or experience to assess alternative causes to many of my experiences. How should I respond? By saying "Okay, you got me." Not.

If I ran into a beach house and said that the sea had just retreated far out you should not spend time telling me that what I said was ridiculous. What you should do is give the story credence and do something. According to what I am telling you, you should consider running for the higher (moral) ground - and getting your affairs in order if they are not already.
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Old 31st July 2020, 12:44 AM   #1903
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Anyone recognize themselves?
Hmmmmm.....I thought South Africa used UK spelling. ie: "recognise"


Didn't they tell you that at "university"?
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This is not a science exercise to derive a proof. It is akin to a courtroom where the witnesses have to be examined with regard to their credentials, their mental competence, and their rationality - as well as their honesty.
If you are assessing the general character of someone because you're thinking about offering them a job, for example, then the factors you list are relevant. But if someone makes a straightforward claim of fact - "my headaches are caused by wifi", for example - then none of them are relevant. The only relevant information is the evidence that supports that claim. They might be ignorant and stupid, and the claim might still be true. They might be knowledgeable and intelligent, and the claim might still be false.

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If I do not demonstrate the characteristics of your typical woo/conspiracy theorist/religious extremist/etc then it becomes difficult for posters to be dismissive of the experiences and events I have been through. I get criticized for not having the intelligence or experience to assess alternative causes to many of my experiences. How should I respond? By saying "Okay, you got me." Not.
No amount of intelligence and experience will be sufficient for someone to assess alternative causes of their experiences if they are so emotionally invested in their chosen explanation that they refuse to even consider alternatives. That requires a willingness to admit they might be wrong, and in my experience intelligence and experience is often a hindrance to that.

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If I ran into a beach house and said that the sea had just retreated far out you should not spend time telling me that what I said was ridiculous. What you should do is give the story credence and do something.
What I should do (especially if the person telling me this is someone prone to mistakes) is look outside and see if, in this instance, they're right.

That's all we're asking you to do: show us the evidence that you are right about the specific claims you are making. Your past successes (and, indeed, failures) are not part of that evidence.

ETA: Just to clarify the "prone to mistakes" comment: that is not another way of saying "ignorant and stupid". I have known lots of intelligent and experienced people who made mistakes such as believing in astrology, homeopathy etc. DowserDon was clearly a highly intelligent and experienced engineer, but that did not stop him making the mistake of believing he could dowse - or from clinging to that belief in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, much of which he obtained himself.

If I knew that someone (regardless of their intelligence and experience) was prone to assuming unusual explanations for everyday phenomena, I would suspect that they might be getting unnecessarily concerned about what was just an unusually low tide. But in that case the possibility of a tsunami would be urgent enough for me to move to higher ground before checking the tide tables.

There is no urgency about PartSkeptic's wifi claims, as I've lived in a permanent wifi field for years with no ill effects. So in this case, I first want to check the tide tables.
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Have we gotten anecdotes yet on how PS is also a prodigy in arts, history and any other subject he sets his mind to?

Of course unverifiable anecdotes are the best he has, because any time he actually tries to engage in science his large inadequacies show quickly.

Oh by the way PS, I took the test. I decided to ignore it the first 17 minutes while looking at birdsigns, then filled in all the questions blindly. But I'm so intelligent, I got an IQ of 238. True story, my wife was in the room.
I think they come between "18 hole-in-one first round of golf" and "birds sang out in human voices at his birth"
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This is not a science exercise to derive a proof. It is akin to a courtroom where the witnesses have to be examined with regard to their credentials, their mental competence, and their rationality - as well as their honesty.
Courtroom experts have to provide credentials as to their expertise and experience work in the field directly related to the field their going to be giving they're expert testimonial on.

An anecdote about how some time in the past they sat a 15 minute IQ test for a job interview and scored an "impossible" IQ score would not be acceptable as evidence of expertise.

Neither would an anecdote about how they once sat in a single physics lecture and stumped the lecturer with a question about relativity that the lecturer couldn't answer after three days.

Neither would stories about how they didn't attend college lecturers, but crammed the night before exams and that's how they passed their college exams.

Etc. etc.

All of those would rightly be thrown out as evidence of your expertise. They would be seen for what they are, anecdotes being told by a narcissist to show how they're cleverer than everyone else they're dealing wiht.

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If I do not demonstrate the characteristics of your typical woo/conspiracy theorist/religious extremist/etc then it becomes difficult for posters to be dismissive of the experiences and events I have been through.
Boasting about stumping lecturers/professors/experts at their own game and boasting about having a super-duper IQ are in fact common characteristics of typical woo slingers.

Experts do not use their supposedly amazing IQ scores or how they were able to stump professors at college when they were young as evidence of their expertise.
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Old 31st July 2020, 04:09 AM   #1908
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I've never had my IQ tested, but from my understanding, an actual valid IQ test takes a lot longer than 15 minutes (I've heard they usually take a couple of hours in the presence of a certified test giver) and there's no such thing as an "impossible" score. Any IQ test administered properly give valid scores up to a certain point (150 or 160 or whatever depending on the test in question) and any scores above that are deemed to be unreliable as they're outside the range of scores the test can give accurate scores for. I'm skeptical of the idea of someone taking a valid IQ test that took only 15 minutes and the test giver told the testee that they scored an impossible score.

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Old 31st July 2020, 05:28 AM   #1909
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A fifteen minute IQ test is rather like those "draw Tippy!" blurbs for art schools - meant to make you think you're special enough to order/sign up for whatever is being hawked. And on a numeric-scaled test an "impossible score" would be going so far afield with wrong answers you wind up scoring "banana". That much I could imagine being true in this case.

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Old 31st July 2020, 05:45 AM   #1910
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Originally Posted by Joe Random View Post
A fifteen minute IQ test is rather like those "draw Tippy!" blurbs for art schools - meant to make you think you're special enough to order/sign up for whatever is being hawked. And on a numeric-scaled test an "impossible score" would be going so far afield with wrong answers you wind up scoring "banana". That much I could imagine being true in this case.
Maybe an impossible score could be zero?

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Old 31st July 2020, 06:26 AM   #1911
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Maybe an impossible score could be zero?


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Old 31st July 2020, 06:38 AM   #1912
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"Sir, you didn't manage to get your name correct!"
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Old 31st July 2020, 07:13 AM   #1913
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Originally Posted by PartSkeptic View Post
This seemed appropriate for the tactics of some posters on this thread.
No, you're not the victim of mean ol' skeptics run amok. No, people aren't using sarcasm because they have no good arguments. They're resorting to sarcasm because it's become painfully obvious you have no interest in either hearing or making good arguments. All that's left for them is to be amused at what nutty, unsupported claim you're going to make next. A half dozen or so people have attempted against their better judgment to take you seriously, only to find themselves abused or ignored. This because they don't follow the script you've laid out for the debate, in which your critics are ill-mannered antagonists with easily-refuted arguments. The first thing that has to happen if you genuinely want a serious debate is for you to stop trying to play the victim.
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Old 31st July 2020, 07:18 AM   #1914
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Originally Posted by JesseCuster View Post
I've never had my IQ tested, but from my understanding, an actual valid IQ test takes a lot longer than 15 minutes (I've heard they usually take a couple of hours in the presence of a certified test giver)...
Yes. I've had a formal IQ test, administered by a qualified, licensed psychologist. No, I don't know my score, as it was simply part of a battery of tests that made me eligible to perform certain work. It is a timed test, but it's a lot longer than 15 minutes.

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...and there's no such thing as an "impossible" score. Any IQ test administered properly give valid scores up to a certain point (150 or 160 or whatever depending on the test in question)...
Indeed, the results are expected to fit a certain model of statistical validity which is a lot more complicated that simply counting up how many right answers you got. Most psychometric instruments are quite cleverly designed to detect such things as tampering.
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Old 31st July 2020, 07:20 AM   #1915
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On a now defunct forum there was a member who claimed that the WTC towers couldn't have fallen according to the "official story". He used to repeatedly tell the same anecdotes about how he was a computer engineer of some sort who used to work with boffins from IBM and how they didn't understand how benchmarking worked and other issues related to computer science. The point of these stories was to let everyone know how smart he was that he could outwit IBM boffins with PhDs.

Therefore we should pay attention to his amateurish analysis about how the WTC towers fell.

This is a common theme amongst people peddling quackery and crackpottery of all sorts, and they seem completely blind to how these kind of anecdotes don't actually make them seem smart and knowledgable, they just make them seem narcissistic and full of themselves, especially when they're telling boastful anecdotes that have nothing to do with the actual matter being discussed.
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Old 31st July 2020, 07:40 AM   #1916
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Originally Posted by JesseCuster View Post
Courtroom experts have to provide credentials as to their expertise and experience work in the field directly related to the field their going to be giving they're expert testimonial on.
That is generally true. However, the book Loss Leader recommends as instructive on this point, The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist, shows both the deplorable state of what is considered "science" in the courtroom, and the ease with which people can be accepted as expert witnesses in court.

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An anecdote about how some time in the past they sat a 15 minute IQ test...
Neither would an anecdote about how they once sat in a single physics lecture...
Neither would stories about how they didn't attend college lecturers, but crammed the night before exams
Mere anecdotes wouldn't suffice. The judge in the Dauber model is supposed to be the gatekeeper of claims to expertise that are intended to qualify a witness to give expert testimony on a particular subject. In this case, there being no documentary evidence of any of these claims, it would behoove the judge to close the gate on such a witness. And, also of course, the irrelevancy of the claims should close the gate.

But just because a witness makes it through the voir dire gate -- judges generally don't know enough about a field to test expertise thoroughly -- doesn't mean he is accepted as a governing authority. It means merely that he is allowed to present opinion and expert judgment as admissible testimony, whereas otherwise such testimony would be disallowed on its face. Ultimately the trier of fact must determine how much weight to give that witness's testimony, and impeaching the foundation of allegedly expert testimony is one way to do that. But because of the dynamics and rhetoric of courtroom litigation, it's not always the favorable way.

Sadly the state of this particular intersection of law and science is deplorable. Under Dauber, a witness giving expert opinion testimony is nominally expected to be able to show work products that led to arriving at that opinion. However, these days you often just have to state under oath that your opinion was arrived at "to a reasonable degree of scientific certainty." And sadly any yahoo who squeaks past the judge can say those words, regardless of how much he's inflated his resume. It's up to opposing counsel to create doubt in the trier of fact's mind that the witness may not be so certain. The court has no interest in maintaining the general purity of scientific investigation or knowledge.
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Old 31st July 2020, 05:30 PM   #1917
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I was tested at 17 as having an IQ of 147
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I'm so intelligent, I got an IQ of 238. True story, my wife was in the room.
Hilarious!

It get's better.......

"Writer Marilyn vos Savant (born 1946) has an IQ of 228, the highest ever recorded."
https://biography.yourdictionary.com...ver%20recorded.

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Old 1st August 2020, 01:22 AM   #1918
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I've never had my IQ tested, but from my understanding, an actual valid IQ test takes a lot longer than 15 minutes
...... That can't be right. My cat's maximum attention span is only 15 minutes. "Mensa for cats" said "this won't be a problem!" after I handed them $2,500 for his IQ test. They even sent me a photo of Claude after taking the test.
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Old 1st August 2020, 02:28 AM   #1919
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It took me a while to type out the test. I wanted it to look as much the same as the original test. Size, layout, wording, punctuation and so on.

The two links are: The test and the answers. Have fun. You can only waste 15 minutes of your time.

I do not think that one can properly comment without doing the test first. One does not have to reveal their score, but commenting without doing it is seems much the same as commenting on climbing Mount Everest without actually trying the climb.

I am interested in the feedback. I do not think it was as easy I mentioned earlier. Having some answers was a not too subtle prompt. Looking at a fresh sheet was different. On one of the number series I did it two different ways but got the same answer. That is for a discussion afterward.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Sxg...ew?usp=sharing,

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Old 1st August 2020, 02:33 AM   #1920
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Originally Posted by Matthew Ellard View Post
Hilarious!

It get's better.......

"Writer Marilyn vos Savant (born 1946) has an IQ of 228, the highest ever recorded."
https://biography.yourdictionary.com...ver%20recorded.

Are you deliberately falsifying one of my posts?

I do not consider that to be humorous. The moderators should take you to task if I am right. Please clear this up.
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