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[smjjames]

I'll bet that he died of something other than ALS

Possibly a complication related to it, but yes, he was a heck of a survivor with the disease.

I'm surprised Google doodle doesn't have something to honor him, instead it's anniversary of Pi day (whatever the heck that is).

[TamerVirus]

Pi=3.14
March 14= 3/14

Hence Pi Day (Unless you subscribe to the date/month method)

[bloop_bleep]

Not at all his death raises the statistical average of IQ. We all just got a little bit smarter.

His intelligence was above average, thus his death brought the average down a little, meaning we are all now a bit smarter when compared with the average human being.

[bloop_bleep]

I'll bet that he died of something other than ALS

Possibly a complication related to it, but yes, he was a heck of a survivor with the disease.

I'm surprised Google doodle doesn't have something to honor him, instead it's anniversary of Pi day (whatever the heck that is).

It's a bit hard to make a Google doodle a day in advance.  They'll probably make one soon enough.

[Tawa]

Not at all his death raises the statistical average of IQ. We all just got a little bit smarter.

His intelligence was above average, thus his death brought the average down a little, meaning we are all now a bit smarter when compared with the average human being.

People who boast about their IQs are losers.

(He never took an IQ test)

[bloop_bleep]

My statement isn't made invalid by the fact that he never took an IQ test; he was of above-average intelligence anyway.

[Tawa]

My point was that I think scriver is making a joke

[Criptfeind]

I think the joke is suppose to be that the IQ test holds 100 as "average" which means when you have 1 very smart person, by definition everyone else has to be slightly lower to make up for them, since on the whole, everyone averages out to 100, so when the smart person dies, the rest of the group actually goes up in IQ points since they no longer have to make up for someone so far above the bell curve.

Consider 5 people, they have an average IQ of 100, but one has an IQ of 200, that means the other four have an IQ of 75. Take the person with the 200 out of the pool, but still everyone has an IQ average of 100, suddenly everyone's gained 25 points of IQ.

[smjjames]

I get the statistics joke, but I'm pretty sure that's not how bell curves work.

[bloop_bleep]

I think the joke is suppose to be that the IQ test holds 100 as "average" which means when you have 1 very smart person, by definition everyone else has to be slightly lower to make up for them, since on the whole, everyone averages out to 100, so when the smart person dies, the rest of the group actually goes up in IQ points since they no longer have to make up for someone so far above the bell curve.

Consider 5 people, they have an average IQ of 100, but one has an IQ of 200, that means the other four have an IQ of 75. Take the person with the 200 out of the pool, but still everyone has an IQ average of 100, suddenly everyone's gained 25 points of IQ.

That's actually exactly what I was saying. By taking the 200 IQ person out of the pool you're lowering the average intelligence (i.e. intelligence that corresponds to an IQ score of 100) to what in the original pool corresponded to 75 IQ. By lowering the average, you're increasing everyone's intelligence when compared with the average, thus giving everyone a higher IQ.

I get the statistics joke, but I'm pretty sure that's not how bell curves work.

These statements are valid for any distribution, including bell curves. You could give 7 billion people an IQ of 100.00000..01 and one person an IQ of 1, and it would still work.

A common misconception (which you may or may not have fallen for) is that IQ is an absolute value -- it actually represents someone's intelligence relative to other people of their age, therefore the average IQ is always 100.

[Egan_BW]

My statement isn't made invalid by the fact that he never took an IQ test; he was of above-average intelligence anyway.

But can you prove it?~

[scriver]

I think the joke is suppose to be that the IQ test holds 100 as "average" which means when you have 1 very smart person, by definition everyone else has to be slightly lower to make up for them, since on the whole, everyone averages out to 100, so when the smart person dies, the rest of the group actually goes up in IQ points since they no longer have to make up for someone so far above the bell curve.

Consider 5 people, they have an average IQ of 100, but one has an IQ of 200, that means the other four have an IQ of 75. Take the person with the 200 out of the pool, but still everyone has an IQ average of 100, suddenly everyone's gained 25 points of IQ.

Yess

[bloop_bleep]

My statement isn't made invalid by the fact that he never took an IQ test; he was of above-average intelligence anyway.

But can you prove it?~

Can you prove that anyone that took an IQ test didn't actually cheat on the answers?

Can you prove that the Roswell incident is fake?

Can you prove that you're not actually a superintelligent chimpanzee in the Chicago Zoo that happens to get access to a computer several times each day?

We can't really prove anything in real life like we can in mathematics, but we can find evidence to support or refute claims. 

[FakerFangirl]

RIP Stephen Hawking

^This 

[ChairmanPoo]

A common misconception is that people actually think IQ means jackshit. https://discordemoji.com/assets/emoji/anibloblaugh.gif