Taken from Joe Rogan Experience #1320 w/Eric Weinstein: https://youtu.be/_EWCN3CPhTI
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Taken from Joe Rogan Experience #1320 w/Eric Weinstein: https://youtu.be/_EWCN3CPhTI
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6:25 I point out people's spelling and grammar mistakes. I don't make fun of them or think I'm better.
I'm just pointing it out. I believe that someone with a healthy frame of mind appreciates being corrected.
The ego is the only thing that feels a sting upon being corrected. Some let their egos control them so when a correction or critique is pointed out, they take it personally.
Others can recognize that their egos try to control, since that process is natural, and they learn to rise above, so they appreciate a correction and critique. They don't get defensive. They analyze what was said.
To close it with the initial point. I see people typing with absolutely no commas. They reply upon being corrected that if you can understand the sentence, then it's fine. Which is a cop out. It's a basic rule. You don't have to be a master! But at least try.
Others, for example, write their/there or "I would of" instead of "I would've".
It's an atrocious mistake and I never attach that negative connotation when correcting them, but it is.
If you find yourself attacking a person that corrected you, in any way, then remember this. Or if you feel hurt, sad or angry when corrected or critiqued, remember it's your ego. And ego has its functions but to let it rule you and your emotions, that's devolving.
I love listening to Eric, about anything. Such an intelligent and articulate person.
Eric seems to misunderstand how IQ is calculated and also what it is attempting to measure. Most psychometricians recognise that there are four or five highly correlated categories of intelligence (identified through factor analysis) that make up g (the general factor). An IQ test is the best way for a psychologist to measure g; it is not absolutely accurate. It would be wrong to say that someone with an IQ of 125 is smarter than someone with an IQ of 123. However, this can be said of someone with an IQ of 80 for example. These tests are highly reliable (as in the same person will score in the same range every time they take an IQ test, barring illness or injury). If you recognise the validity of these measurements, then mean racial differences in IQ mean there is a real difference in intelligence between these groups. Furthermore, if you argue that IQ tests only measure how good you are at taking IQ tests, why do White people score 15 points higher (1 Standard Deviation) on average? Might this have something to do with intelligence? (Yes, obviously)
It's no accident that it's two white guys who are having this conversation. Or that they are both highly intelligent and rich.
I AM interested in race and IQ, and in IQ in general. I've studied enough scientific studies to know how many have been done going back to the early 1900s that are remarkably completely consistent on the racial differences in tested IQ.. I'm no genius, nor am an arrogant fool like so many high IQ people are. But Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein are correct in their in-depth study conclusions presented in their book "The Bell Curve," published way back in 1994. IQ is the single most important factor in determining a person's life outcome. Because it is largely a genetic trait, the ugly yet enlightening truth is that that it is largely immutable.
Rogan admits he's never read TBC, so he's an admitted dummy when it comes to IQ. However, I completely agree with him that IQ tests don't measure intelligence, and that creativity often trumps IQ relative to life achievement and success. It just takes a long time for people to realize great art (literature, music, graphic arts, films, et. al.) and the level of creativity achieved by the artist who produced it.