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The Ultimate IQ Test: Guessing the Author’s Mind and Escaping the Infinity of Answers
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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
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How High an IQ Must A Person Have To Be Executed?
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Class 90: Simple (Optimal) Decisions
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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

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Reader Poll: Shorter or Longer, Frequent or Rarer Posts?

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Why Trump? — Guest Post by the Blonde Bombshell

As the election nears, some voters and pundits continue to be perplexed why Donald J. Trump is on the ballot. Forget that the country underwent a political process, where the…
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Posted inCulture Statistics

Stream: President Obama Once Again Imagines He Will Save The World

Today's post is at The Stream: President Obama Once Again Imagines He Will Saves The World. On his inauguration---perhaps apotheosis is a better word---President Obama said that the world would…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: Intellectual Substances Are Immaterial

See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. Some mop-up…
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Internet Guidelines From The Rule Of St Benedict — Guest Post by Bob Kurland

The prophet shows that, for the sake of silence, we are to abstain even from good talk. If this be so, how much more needful is it that we refrain…
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Carbon Fibre Masculinity, Homosociality, Gendered Surfaces, & Idiot Academics

Tell you right up front that the only way to be sure of solving the crisis in higher education is to nuke universities from orbit and then salt the grounds…
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Why Americans Left Christianity And Became Nones

The title of the Pew report which we'll discuss is "Why America's 'nones' left religion behind", though, as you can see, I modified it. For good reason. The original Pew…
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Gonorrhea, Wee P-values, and Tax Increases

Adventurous reader Ted Poppke discovered a peer-reviewed paper that, according to the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), proved that increasing sales tax on booze "caused a 24% decrease in gonorrhea cases…
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On The Severe (And Unrecognized) Limitations Of fMRI

So this 44-year-old Frenchman---let's call him Jacques---presented for a "mild left leg weakness". The leg bone being connected to the hip bone, etc., it was eventually discovered that Jacques's "skull…
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  1. 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.…

  2. 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

  3. 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…

  4. 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…

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

    In the absence of knowing if the author intended some more complex formula, and what it might be, the simplest…

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