All you folks who "wouldn't join any club that would have you as a member", or who don't want to know, or who disdain joining "elistist groups", can tune out...
Look at the world's most successful people. Bill Gates has a high IQ. George Bush has a low IQ (probably) as measured by standard IQ tests. Yet both are...
... All this is saying to me is that you don't want to join, and feel it necessary to explain why. ... Not possible. That you say "my bank account" indicates...
I agree with Wayne that the importance of IQ is overstated and that soft skills not measured by IQ tests are equally or more important in determining success....
I agree whole heartedly that IQ is rather unimportant for the majority of success metrics. EQ (Emotional), SocialQ being far far more important. EQ being ...
Hi Futurists, Weblog posts with links: http://www.futuresalon.org/2005/08/biotechnology_m.html The Long Now Foundation has a Biotechnology Milestones calendar...
My opinions about the importance of IQ: 1) People need many kinds of resources in order to succeed. IQ is just one of them. If you have enough other...
Ken Wilber ["Sex, Ecology, Spirituality_, "_Marriage of Sense and Soul_", "_Integral Psychology_", etc.] one of the greatest integral thinkers of our time, and...
Good point. But, has it been proven scientifically that it is an one-way-street relationship between IQ and other lines of development of human being?...
I read Goldman's work. I find it compelling, though the interellationship of IQ and EQ seem synergistic. Allow me to explore a tangent for a moment: One of the...
Nice analysis, Troy, and personally relevant to me. I'm one of those people who has plenty of IQ, but really needs a lot more EQ and SQ, which has been...
... IQ is more of an enabler that bounds the possibility space; no amount of hard work is a substitute for being fundamentally too stupid to solve a given...
Hello JAR... Right on!!! Below is something that came my way recently... Many thanks to the mensAH! folk's that have the ambition to be funny! Read on and...
... If one cannot predict intelligence from the mathematics, one does not understand intelligence. Even if we could copy the brain perfectly, without ...
Hi their! This is the normally quiet and very reserved Jan Hauser ;-) I love the reference to "wouldn't join any club that would have you as a member". On the...
... Being an extropian , futurist, atheist, NT or NF or any other group less than 3% of the general population with thoughts and an agenda and facilitated by...
... That is, you've already suffered the "handover". ... Swiped from Gary Larson. Andrew...
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Interesting conversation here ... and can't help but chime in here briefly. I doubt there are more than a small handful of folks who don't fall in the 2.2%...
... This is very true. The more advanced one gets in any line of development the more opportunities there are for something to go terribly awry as the organism...
... This wasn't quite clear to me what you meant. But I'll venture an answer on what I think (er feel?) you mean. Depends on the balance and the depth of the ...
... This is what's behind the phrase, "Consciousness is our oxygen challenge" <http://ourpla.net/cgi/pikie? ConsciousnessIsOurOxygenChallenge>. All humans...
http://www.futuresalon.org/2005/08/poetry_of_brain.html#more Poetry of Brains Future Salon I am thrilled to announce that in the spirit of this years...
... So-called "g-factor" - the large correlation that all intelligence tests exhibit with each other and with real-life measures such as financial success -...
Hi, This is a perrenial and popular topic, and interesting to me. However, I want to broaden the discussion a bit, and ask how judgement fits into all of...
... Yes, It's tied to two primary things: 1) We are emotional brains with the capability for logic/rationality, I'd argue only the minimum amount of logic to...
Hello Bay Area ASF Future Salon members! My name is Jim Turner. As many of you may already know, I have come on as the new ASF Executive Director. There will...
Hi Futurists, Weblog post with links: http://www.futuresalon.org/2005/08/poetry_of_brain_2.html This Friday 19th of August is Future Salon: Poetry of Brains...