'That's not the point he's making though. Google's grabbing top talent from the right tails of the population competence distribution rather than the center, yes, but the means of the distributions...|||Naw, he wasn't white knighting. He was toeing the progressive line because he thought it would shield him from their wrath... which was a bit of a miscalculation.|||https://www.testmybrain.org/setup_restart.php?b=529  This is a web adaptation of an assessment that's been demonstrated to correlate somewhat with aspie status (the eye test, not necessarily the...|||Bootcamp. Look it up.|||Source? Who's studying this and what key features/ratios have they isolated? Can you describe quantitatively how to identify each type? What about ethnic confounders?|||Atheism ain't a religion.|||https://cdn.meme.am/cache/instances/folder408/500x/66897408.jpg|||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SRs3PkRWPo Netflix knows who's watching better than any other studio in existence, and Bojack's problematic behavior is what makes it a comedy (consider...|||Your writing is so amusingly full of redundancy.. it's amusing /irony. You might find masturbating fun, but it's less pleasant to watch.|||Yep, that tends to happen. Simply being able to identify how something could be problematic within one's worldview is important though, and that's mostly what I intended to demonstrate. And not to be...|||I'll let you have the last word of most of this, but I have a few objections that I think are worth making. First, contrary to stereotypes, most mental illnesses are actually a lot more prevalent...|||Sadly no. I don't derive higher moral truths from intro economics textbooks, but whatever floats your boat.|||Did you even read the post you're quoting? Or the rest of the conversation? Thanks for the boring econ 101 answer though :rolleyes:|||Well that's a bad conclusion.    ...  This is such an irrelevant question. The point is simply that stupidity is an undesirable trait so it's generally devalued by society and, all things...|||Not necessarily. The point of the first post was to make a group seem more worthy of sympathy, which might legitimately change people's attitudes towards them.|||Nope you did.. again. You made a specific remark about me and my perception of my intelligence and I responded, but that wasn't the main point of the response, and (just like before) you disregarded...|||Nerd =/= smart. That pejorative implies a whole set of traits often including physical unattractiveness, social incompetence, and sometimes plain autism. Plus it's not even clear that it's related to...|||Fallacy of relative privation?  Smart people are rarely mocked for being intelligent. I mean, sure, there are some drawbacks, but would you shoot yourself in the spine for the right to park in a...|||Sure.|||That's such a vague, uninteresting argument. What would your response be if this were delivered to a black slave in the pre-civil war era? Just adopt a fatalistic stance. Accept things as they are....|||Actually, verbal analogies were on the SAT until 2005 under the verbal section, which also had reading comprehension problems...    No, you absolutely cannot infer that. The description exists to...|||I'd say it likely wasn't a choice.|||About a third of the population has them. That may be unprecedentedly high, but it still leaves the majority without, so you're focusing on a very privileged subset. Maybe yuppies are more stupidly...|||Are your friends all members of the working class or something? I don't think I've ever met someone who truly devalued intelligence (felt threatened by it and rationalized their lack of it, sure),...|||I feel like a slightly trans-gender autistic person, but I'm pretty certain that's not possible in this case... Meh, what has reality ever done for me? Seriously though, I couldn't care less about...|||Elephant really annoys me.|||Between legit or not, and right and wrong? Because sure, those are both too vague to really compare meaningfully lol, but there's definitely a difference between laws and absolute moral truths...|||Yes, I know that, but calling them an attempt at creating absolute moral truths is extremely excessive and out of line with most legal philosophy. They're clearly tied to moral values, but they...|||Laws aren't an attempt at that (maybe to some). It's not illegal to lie, be manipulative, selfish, etc (when it causes no clear, measurable damage). True, they reflect society's fickle sensibilities...|||Would you like to live in a society in which you could be enslaved by another citizen? Do you believe that, as someone else's property, you could could achieve decent quality of life? Any...|||No, I absolutely am not speaking in absolutes (regarding the assertions about the associations) and I've stated this multiple times, I've also provided good reasons for why they likely share some...|||Conclusive? You do understand that my point is to suggest that there is a correlation and some similar underlying causal factors, right?|||Multifactorial|||You're not understanding because, like everyone else, you're still thinking in absolutes. The researcher in the article I mentioned essentially described autism as a possible extreme male brain...|||To illustrate the similarities between one end of a spectrum and the type in question (because it was important to the assertion). I honestly just wanted to point out that it was very possible that...|||I said one might describe an INTJ caricature as callous and unconcerned about others' wellbeing in a conversation, not that all INTJs are totally incapable of empathy. Autistic people certainly are...|||It's almost certainly multifactorial, but the hypothesis that prenatal T is implicated is well supported.|||Meh, maybe you can't see it; that's fine. Either way, you should probably stop responding if that's the case lol. I mean, I'm sure cluttering the thread with gifs was useful too, right...|||Fine. I don't need to dispute this; it's pertinent regardless.|||The phrasing of the question implied the two were mutually exclusive and I'm simply pointing out that they're actually almost certainly positively correlated traits. It's not irrelevant.|||Right, well that's basically my point. One person can't demonstrate a statistical trend, but hey, it's always possible and I'd be flattered if it were accurate. Either way, the lack of age-based...|||Haha, yeah.. it's wonderful for that, isn't it? And that's interesting to hear. Did it include a verbal component, or was it more like this? Because many people with relatively-stronger verbal...|||I wouldn't assume that unless this person is referring to a legitimate test administered by a psychologist. Otherwise, it's possible (likely even) that its scores are every bit as inflated as most...|||Ok.. good talk.|||No, I am not. Your last post illustrated your fundamental misunderstanding of my assertion and I clarified. Apparently you can't think beyond absolute statements, so I'm not surprised that you object...|||Right, that explains why you never responded to my last post. Feel free to when you can actually come up with something compelling.|||Wow, I did not expect this to offend... When I refer to INTJ social traits, I'm talking about the stereotypical ones like reverence for the truth over other people's feelings (which is directly...|||I think MBTI is mostly pseudo-scientific nonsense, so that was just me being derisive (most internet INTJs are rather enamored with their perceived intelligence). If you don't see typology theory as...|||What is the link between autism and testosterone? : Nature News  AD traits and some of the stereotypical INTJ personality features definitely have similarities, and my suspicion is that some of...|||So you have nothing. I'm not surprised.'