Bay Area D is the resident troll. He used a program called AniFirewll to change his IP address via proxies so it looked like he came from different states than his own. I am an acquaintance of his. He actually bragged about this trolling activity to me and showed off once when I was at his home.
Nomen Nescio wrote
I think the OP is referring to the "AntiFirewall 1.10" anonymizing software. Powerful program:
Bay Area D is the resident troll. He used a program called AniFirewll to change his IP address via proxies so it looked like he came from different states than his own. I am an acquaintance of his. He actually bragged about this trolling activity to me and showed off once when I was at his home.
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change his IP address via proxies so it looked like he came from different states than his own. I am an acquaintance of his. He actually bragged about this trolling activity to me and showed off once when I was at his home.
>I don't have any insane acquaintances. You are one strange wacko...
dave
Nomen Nescio wrote:
Remember: Half the people you know are below average. Tom >Subject: Re: Crazy "Nomen" get some therapy
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when I was at his home.
Were you both naked at the time.
Not necessarily true.
How many people have a "below average" IQ in a population of 99 people with an IQ of 100 and
1 person with an IQ of 110?ARM ;-)
Please forgive my late-night rantings. Humor was never one of my strong points. That said, who's to say what average is, especially how it's quantified? It's all relative to the sampled group at hand. But in the instance of ">99 people with an IQ of >100 and 1 person with an IQ of 110?" I'll submit to your unrealistic hypothetical situation. ; ) Hey, look! My first emoticon!
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That's not a population, that's a sample. But then Tom should have said "half the people in the world..."
Mike
And a skewed sample, at that. But no, I mean 1/2 the people_you_ know are below average for that particular group, in purely mathematical terms. I'd never disparage a sampling of anyone's friends and relatives by using the term "average" for personality, looks, wealth, ability, IQ, etc. or nothin'. Tom >Michael Daly wrote
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Since IQ follows a normal curve with no skew (mean, median, and mode the same), you'd have a heckof a time finding such a group unless you tested and picked them deliberately :-).
And the "half under average" is the reason I shudder as all the production line jobs get shipped overseas. How stable can a society be when many workers in that half can't find jobs that pay enough to feed a family?
I have no idea where the Iraqi WMD's are. Such a question begs another. Are there any? Am I below average, or above? Tom Someday, it'll all be over....
Larry Blanchard wrote: : In article , snipped-for-privacy@gwis.com says... :> :> How many people have a "below average" IQ in a population :> of 99 people with an IQ of 100 and :> 1 person with an IQ of 110? :> : Since IQ follows a normal curve with no skew (mean, median, and mode the : same), you'd have a heckof a time finding such a group unless you tested : and picked them deliberately :-).
Actually, IQ scores rise over time (the Flynn Effect), so the tests get renormed every 15 years. See:
: And the "half under average" is the reason I shudder as all the : production line jobs get shipped overseas. How stable can a society be : when many workers in that half can't find jobs that pay enough to feed a : family?
Agreed.
- Andy Barss
Not true in general - only true for symmetric distributions and a subset of others.
There's no reason to believe that a random sample of folks I know are symmetrically distributed in intelligence. That's not even true for the whole population, since you can't have a negative IQ (though politicians come to mind...). However, there appears to be an upper limit as well, so there may be a reasonable expectation of symmetry with
6 gigapersons to choose from.Mike
No-one said anything about intelligence... >There's no reason to believe that a random sample of folks I
Of course not, but given a multitude of qualifiers, not just intelligence, you'll come to a symmetrical distribution. And I'm just having fun quoting some comedian, anyway. >However, there appears to be an upper limit as well, so
It'll all average out! Tom Someday, it'll all be over....
It seems to me that, by design, a validated IQ test has a mean (average) of
100 and a standard deviation of 15... normally distributed. For example, 66% of the population would have an IQ between 85 and 115; 14% between 70 and 85 and another 14% between 115 and 130; 2% between 55 and 70 and 2% between 130 and 145 ; .1% less than 55 and .1% over 145.However, the chances that any given sample of 99 people exactly matches the population's normal curve isn't high. Perhaps to put it in context for any given individual: Assuming that the heuristic "you are who your friends are" is true, if you feel you hang out with idiots you probably are one too. Hmmm... probably time to change jobs... the wreck... runs hot and cold. ;-)
John ...actually been thinking about this lately!
Wow!! I feel like I kicked over an ants nest!
ARM
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