tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post7921943527773955790..comments2024-03-14T09:50:44.315+00:00Comments on Psychological comments: Your Google IQAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09320614837348759094noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-26740591911791532392015-03-07T22:18:35.646+00:002015-03-07T22:18:35.646+00:00Interesting. However, I think it goes deeper. I am...Interesting. However, I think it goes deeper. I am always surprised how much people respond to pictures of pets, not a common concern among academics.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09320614837348759094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-67845508618741451572015-03-06T23:26:01.202+00:002015-03-06T23:26:01.202+00:00I think the Hello Kitty correlation might be expla...I think the Hello Kitty correlation might be explainable by the educated classes in Western countries having been exposed to a lot of feminist theory, which has given them an aversion to overtly "girly" brands, while the working class have been much less affected by these ideas.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-19313755003771444942015-03-04T20:20:33.304+00:002015-03-04T20:20:33.304+00:00Thanks very much. The authors point out that their...Thanks very much. The authors point out that their discussion, as regards limitations, mentions the general problem of lack of access to the web, but your more detailed material and explanations certainly seems to match some of the searches and suggest that teenagers could be driving some of the effects found. The authors should respond later this week, when various other duties have been completed. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09320614837348759094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-8820772334241165252015-03-04T20:14:41.465+00:002015-03-04T20:14:41.465+00:00Could be Cold Winter theory proved again.Could be Cold Winter theory proved again.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09320614837348759094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-89082881061913882792015-03-04T15:36:47.986+00:002015-03-04T15:36:47.986+00:00The Pew Institute has been studying teen technolog...The Pew Institute has been studying teen technology use. With every new report, they have found teen ownership and use of tech devices to be increasing. www.pewinternet.org/files/old-media/Files/Reports/2013/PIP_TeensandTechnology2013.pdf<br /><br />This report is two years old, so it represents a point from which one should assume use has increased. <i>About three in four (74%) teens ages 12-17 are “mobile internet users” who say they access the internet on cell phones, tablets, and other mobile devices at least occasionally.1 By comparison, 55% of adults are mobile internet users.2 However, this gap is driven primarily by adults ages 65 and older, many of whom are not using the internet in any capacity, let alone on a mobile device. Adults under the age of 50, on the other hand, are just as likely as teens to be mobile internet users; 74% of adults ages 18-49 access the internet on a cell phone, tablet, or other mobile device.</i><br /><br />dragonball z, social media sites, high school fights, how to be a clerk or enlist in the army, braces... It looks like a teenaged list to me. <br /><br />As to Hello Kitty, my own search for it (no doubt lowering my IQ in the process), turns up many mentions of the brand as a model of effective marketing. I would assume lower IQ would make one more vulnerable to marketing. <br /><br />Add to all this that many US families are not signing up for land line phones anymore. The cell plan is the phone plan. As users can "add a line" at supposedly low cost, that means the number of children in a state population has an effect on the number and content of web searches run by that population. East Coastnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-26945073305915155792015-03-04T08:50:53.345+00:002015-03-04T08:50:53.345+00:00Dear Aeoli, Thanks for your explanations, which se...Dear Aeoli, Thanks for your explanations, which seem very likely.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09320614837348759094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-81557460083934206202015-03-03T21:45:22.346+00:002015-03-03T21:45:22.346+00:00Similarly, the terms related to woodworking and bo...Similarly, the terms related to woodworking and boiling eggs and similarly pedestrian life skills are due to class. Most professionals in this country have been on such-and-such career track since early childhood, which means 8 hours of school, 4 hours of homework and 3 hours of extracurriculars. Most of our college graduates have never learned to cook a meal, iron a shirt, do their own laundry, etc. until middle adulthood, and learn these out of curiosity. It's kind of like how a lawyer might go fishing to relax, but a fisherman won't.Aeoli Peranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-5203389639294037432015-03-03T21:38:57.990+00:002015-03-03T21:38:57.990+00:00"Cricket rules" correlates with high IQ ..."Cricket rules" correlates with high IQ here because our upper middle class (America's technocrats) is obsessed with upper class English aesthetics and habits. See Paul Fussell's book <i>Class: A Guide Through the American Status System</i> for more details on that.Aeoli Peranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-88174563679972234222015-03-02T21:01:00.772+00:002015-03-02T21:01:00.772+00:00Interesting point, and thanks for the link to the ...Interesting point, and thanks for the link to the data. No mention of age correction in the paper that I can find. However, assume kids do few internet searches before about 9 years, so doubt it would tip the balance much. Figures for adults vary less. Of course, low ability does relate to more immature tastes, and brighter people are "more mature than their years". Probably not the main driver, but still an interesting possibility the authors might like to comment on.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09320614837348759094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-38325404410506891312015-03-02T15:54:54.968+00:002015-03-02T15:54:54.968+00:00Did they correct for the age distribution in the v...Did they correct for the age distribution in the various states? The first list reads like a list of the concerns of middle-aged homeowners who eat carbs (or eat them infrequently, thus needing to look up recipes), maintain their homes, and watch their budgets.<br /><br />The second list strikes me as a teenaged list, preoccupied with appearance and display. <br /><br />It certainly could be IQ, but an older population would be more educated, as it would have more people old enough to have completed degrees. <br /><br />Are the New England states full of high IQ people, or do they have fewer children? http://kff.org/other/state-indicator/distribution-by-age/ Just eyeballing the chart in the paper, and a list of states arranged by percentage of 0-18 year olds, there's a great deal of similarity.<br /><br />I would not have predicted that Alaska would be third in the percentage of 0-18 year olds in the population. East Coastnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-16706423553936278072015-03-01T14:14:19.183+00:002015-03-01T14:14:19.183+00:00and the highest IQ would probably go to esoteric m...and the highest IQ would probably go to esoteric math and physics terms grey enlightenmenthttp://greyenlightenment.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-81005556518045660492015-02-28T01:50:33.215+00:002015-02-28T01:50:33.215+00:00In the second table they've misspelled "t...In the second table they've misspelled "tosspot".deariemenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-44886433833779505162015-02-28T00:17:59.844+00:002015-02-28T00:17:59.844+00:00A fair few of the "higher-IQ" searches s...A fair few of the "higher-IQ" searches seem to illustrate what Sailer calls Moynihan's Law of the Canadian Border. All those snow-related searches --> northern location --> higher IQ. 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