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The Ultimate IQ Test: Guessing the Author’s Mind and Escaping the Infinity of Answers
June 8, 2026
Reader Poll: Shorter or Longer, Frequent or Rarer Posts?
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No Model Will Save Us: Pope Leo, the Miserostat, and AI’s Woke Coders
June 3, 2026
How High an IQ Must A Person Have To Be Executed?
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Class 90: Simple (Optimal) Decisions
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Shocking Abortion Numbers: Death Distributions Show We’re Living Longer
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Blessed Memorial Day; No Class; See You Wednesday
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Why There Are (Probably) No UFOs: “Climate Change”
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Creating Microbial Monsters To Terrorize Ourselves
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Class 89: The Measure Most Modelers Forget: Skill Examples
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The Shocking Conclusion of the HR Trilemma!
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The HR Trilemma: Which Door Decides Your Fate?
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Capital Punishment Deters Crime More Than The Death Penalty
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How Experts Use “Calamities” to Find Official Victims & Gain Power
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Richard Dawkins, The Big Muscles Fallacy & AI Pachinko
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Class 88: The Most Neglected Concept: Skill
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The Red-Blue Button Dilemma & Its Surprising Answer
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UFO Reports About To Blast Off!
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Class 87: Calibration & Conformal Prediction: Examples
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Noticing Differences Between Races Does Not Pay
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What Are The Chances Of All These Scientists Dying, Killed, Or Going Missing?
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The Ultimate IQ Test: Guessing the Author’s Mind and Escaping the Infinity of Answers

Posted by By Briggs June 8, 2026
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Reader Poll: Shorter or Longer, Frequent or Rarer Posts?

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Will There Be Any Academic Refuges In A Woke Purity Spiral?
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Will There Be Any Academic Refuges In A Woke Purity Spiral?

How bad will it get? It can get pretty bad. It's pretty bad now (see this thread about whiteness in physics). But will it get worse? We recall that in…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: It Was Suitable God Became Flesh
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Summary Against Modern Thought: It Was Suitable God Became Flesh

Previous post. Part I of the rebuttals of the objections given last week. Why did God become a man? THAT IT WAS SUITABLE FOR GOD TO BE MADE FLESH 1…
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On Computing The Number Of The Beast
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On Computing The Number Of The Beast

And it was given him to give life to the image of the beast, and that the image of the beast should speak; and should cause, that whosoever will not…
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Curious Notions Of Cause In Science & Statistics
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Curious Notions Of Cause In Science & Statistics

You will forgive me if this post is more technical than usual. I try to leave out math, knowing how confusing it can be. But here it is necessary. The…
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Massive Over-Certainties In Medicine: Bad Statistics, Bad Experiments
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Massive Over-Certainties In Medicine: Bad Statistics, Bad Experiments

Ready to Follow The Science? Let's listen to the lamentations of its lecturers and lovers. The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply…
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How Academic Psychology Affects Brains Of Academic Psychologists Studying How Climate Change Affects Brains
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How Academic Psychology Affects Brains Of Academic Psychologists Studying How Climate Change Affects Brains

Yesterday I made the claim that academic psychology contained vastly more "banality, ephemera, and outright enforced mandatory quackery than real psychology." This was proved by a paper written by a…
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How Belief In Equality Destroys Intellect, Ruins Thought & Leads To Madness
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How Belief In Equality Destroys Intellect, Ruins Thought & Leads To Madness

There is a peer-reviewed paper, with about sixty authors, almost all female, all ensconced comfortably in prominent Western academic institutions, ululating on the relative dearth of females in "psychological science."…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: Arguments Used Against The Incarnation
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Summary Against Modern Thought: Arguments Used Against The Incarnation

Previous post. Another long couple of weeks ahead of us. Why did Our Lord become flesh? Our good saint leads off the best way. ARGUMENTS WHICH SEEM TO PROVE THAT…
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  1. John Pate on The Ultimate IQ Test: Guessing the Author’s Mind and Escaping the Infinity of AnswersJune 9, 2026

    Even the most die hard London School fundamentalist (like me) would acknowledge the many problems with IQ tests but you're…

  2. JH on The Ultimate IQ Test: Guessing the Author’s Mind and Escaping the Infinity of AnswersJune 9, 2026

    The right answer to any and all questions much always include this: the mind of the author of the questions.…

  3. C-Marie on The Ultimate IQ Test: Guessing the Author’s Mind and Escaping the Infinity of AnswersJune 8, 2026

    Very fun, Matt!! God bless, C-Marie

  4. Philip Rogan on The Ultimate IQ Test: Guessing the Author’s Mind and Escaping the Infinity of AnswersJune 8, 2026

    May be showing my lack of IQ: 2 + 2 = 4; 4 x 2 = 8. 5 + 5…

  5. NLR on The Ultimate IQ Test: Guessing the Author’s Mind and Escaping the Infinity of AnswersJune 8, 2026

    You explained the point clearly, that any question involves assumptions about its meaning and how it should be answered. If…

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