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Originally Posted by BlakNWyte View Post
Interesting and fun to think about, but I seriously doubt the accuracy of some of those figures.

I agree. For example, "The 25% of India's population with the highest IQ's is GREATER than the total population of the United States"? Give me a break.





I was amused by the illegal songs comment though.
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Computers have many times the computational capablities of humans already. However, computers are incapable of instinctual thoughts and cannot comprehend environmental stimuli that humans find so simple to analyze- i.e., recognizing and distinguishing furniture from tables and obstacles- robots and computers are incapable of doing this even today.
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Originally Posted by huckman View Post
I agree. For example, "The 25% of India's population with the highest IQ's is GREATER than the total population of the United States"? Give me a break.

Actually, that one was true.

It's simple word play... "25% of India's population with the highest IQ's" just means 25% of India's population.

They are about 1,200,000,000 people, we are at about 300,000,000. So, true (although they are trying to dazzle the average viewer, which annoys me).


I was amused by the illegal songs comment though.

Which was completely false.
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Which was completely false.

Which was why I was amused.
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Originally Posted by BlakNWyte View Post
Actually, that one was true.

It's simple word play... "25% of India's population with the highest IQ's" just means 25% of India's population.

No, it means the top 25% of India's population with high IQs. So you take all the high IQ's from the general population, then take the top 25% from that fraction of Indian people. Its not word play, its poorly worded.

Also I believe the music thing the number wasn't THAT huge.
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No, it means the top 25% of India's population with high IQs. So you take all the high IQ's from the general population, then take the top 25% from that fraction of Indian people.

Well if you take that interpretation (either could be correct) than the statistic is just wrong.
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even if half of the stuff wasnt true it gives me a bit of a depressing perspective of things
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