Posts by cofty

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Race are we biased here is a fun quiz to self evaluate ourselves

by recovering in

http://www.playbuzz.com/sammccarty10/are-you-actually-racially-biased.

try it it is fun.

cofty

Like everybody else here I scored little or no bias but really why does it matter?

It's how we act that matters not any subconscious bias that we might have.

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The Telephone we take for granted!

by TerryWalstrom in

jw
friends

march 10, 1876: “mr.

watson —come here—i want to see you” the voice of alexander graham bell is transmitted.

he wasn't the first to invent it but the first to own a patent.. in 1910 telephone "subscribers" had 4 digit telephone numbers.soon, larger cities had 5 digit numbers.mark twain was one of the first to have a phone in his home.. the first phones had no dials or buttons.

cofty

Interesting fact. With the old analogue exchanges if the dial of a public telephone was broken - as they often were - you could dial by tapping the switches that the handset rested on at approx 10 pulses per second.

The dial worked by simply interrupting the power at that rate - 6 times for a number 6 for example. That lifted the switch in the exchange that number of levels. In the days before mobile phones I called home from Glasgow a few times like that.

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Does anyone know of this guy, or agree with his statements on racial differences in IQ?

by Sugar Shane in

here are some quotes by the guy, from his youtube channel.

his name is stefan molyneux, and he’s apparently popular among the alt-right crowd.

he’s also widely quoted on these discussion boards, by certain ex-jws, who use him to help promote their political views.

cofty

Really A chinese person who doesn't know what a fork is?

I have never eaten with chopsticks but I know what it's used for.

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Does anyone know of this guy, or agree with his statements on racial differences in IQ?

by Sugar Shane in

here are some quotes by the guy, from his youtube channel.

his name is stefan molyneux, and he’s apparently popular among the alt-right crowd.

he’s also widely quoted on these discussion boards, by certain ex-jws, who use him to help promote their political views.

cofty

If their culture does not have Cesar Salad Dressing than most likely they are not going to understand this question and probably get it wrong

I have never heard of Napoleon beer but it is still easy to work that out.

The point is that IQ tests that matter do NOT use culturally dependent questions.

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Does anyone know of this guy, or agree with his statements on racial differences in IQ?

by Sugar Shane in

here are some quotes by the guy, from his youtube channel.

his name is stefan molyneux, and he’s apparently popular among the alt-right crowd.

he’s also widely quoted on these discussion boards, by certain ex-jws, who use him to help promote their political views.

cofty

But psychologists and neuroscientists don't restrict themselves to 'standard IQ' tests when doing serious research. They are aware of all the strengths, limitations and cultural biases of a whole battery of tests.

Average intelligence of ethnic groups of humans varies. It is measurable. A significant part of the difference is genetic.

None of these well-established - if inconvenient - facts provides any reason to make a judgement about any individual within a group or to treat anybody without dignity or respect.

Molineux is a Libertarian - IMO one step away from psychopath.

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The Telephone we take for granted!

by TerryWalstrom in

jw
friends

march 10, 1876: “mr.

watson —come here—i want to see you” the voice of alexander graham bell is transmitted.

he wasn't the first to invent it but the first to own a patent.. in 1910 telephone "subscribers" had 4 digit telephone numbers.soon, larger cities had 5 digit numbers.mark twain was one of the first to have a phone in his home.. the first phones had no dials or buttons.

cofty

I used to fix these sort of telephone exchanges for a living.

They were called Strowger after the funeral director who invented them. His rival's wife worked at the old manual exchange and passed on all the work to her husband.

I worked on the new electronic exchanges during my last year in BT.

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Does anyone know of this guy, or agree with his statements on racial differences in IQ?

by Sugar Shane in

here are some quotes by the guy, from his youtube channel.

his name is stefan molyneux, and he’s apparently popular among the alt-right crowd.

he’s also widely quoted on these discussion boards, by certain ex-jws, who use him to help promote their political views.

cofty

Sugar - So no interest in confronting actual facts then? Typically your reaction is to run away shouting insults over your shoulder as you go.

Science is NOT the enemy of equality and fairness. Quite the opposite. The mistake many make is to try to base their desire for equality on science-denial. That is a foolish strategy.

There are very good objective reasons to treat everybody fairly without lying to ourselves. In the long run they are more stable reasons too.

IQ research is full of so much bias as to make the whole concept of measurable intelligence a joke.

Utter nonsense.

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What is the most troubling or disturbing biblical passage you ever had to rationalise when a Jw?

by stuckinarut2 in

now that we have stepped away from the jw faith, how do you feel about the bible itself?.

what about those awkward sections of scripture?

how did you rationalise or justify those sections?.

cofty

Slavery - not the arrangement of one Israelite to another, but the full-blooded slavery where gentiles could be owned by Israelites as heritable possessions and effectively beaten to death.

The bible's failure to condemn the principle of one human owning another rules out any possibility that it is worthy of respect.

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Does anyone know of this guy, or agree with his statements on racial differences in IQ?

by Sugar Shane in

here are some quotes by the guy, from his youtube channel.

his name is stefan molyneux, and he’s apparently popular among the alt-right crowd.

he’s also widely quoted on these discussion boards, by certain ex-jws, who use him to help promote their political views.

cofty

Sugar - I'm confused about what your point is.

Are you denying the scientific conclusion that intelligence is strongly heritable?

There is still some debate about whether the genetic factor affecting variation in intelligence is nearer to 50% or 70% but there is no serious dispute that variation in intelligence is significantly genetic.

Of course it goes without saying that a person with a genetic gift for high intelligence won't flourish without a suitable environment - 'nature via nurture' as Matt Ridley expresses it.

Just as an individual with the combination of genes for higher than average height won't achieve that potential without proper nutrition. On the other hand no amount of protein will cause somebody with the genes for less than average height to grow to 6' 4".

IQ tests are not perfect but they are very good, and if you research the literature you will find that scientists go out their way to compensate for social factors when measuring groups. The commonly high IQ of Asian kids is not explained by pushy parents.

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Diminishing glory of JWs, confusions are at the root

by Ireneus in

when the world shuns jws because of difference of opinion, it is described as the action of satan.. when jws shun others because of difference of opinion, it is described as theocratic action.. such confused mind is at the root of getting wrong teachings.

jws shun anything what anyone would rate as the best of the bible or christian traditions:.

1)cross (with a longer descending arm) is the symbol of controlling the less powerful (“acts of the flesh”) with the more powerful (“spirit” within)—galatians 5:17, 19, 25.

cofty

God of the Universe who is begging help from his fallen/weak children so that God Almighty may be empowered to give an answer to the taunt of Satan

That would be a pathetic excuse for a deity. Personally I would have just told Satan to fuck off.