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Category: Ask A Genius
Ask A Genius 1617: High-Range IQ Tests in the AI Era: Mega Test, SAT, and Measuring g
“High-range IQ testing is a sport that very few people play. At this point, with individual intelligence increasingly intertwined with technologically assisted intelligence, you would have to convince me there is still a compelling use for this subculture.”
Ask A Genius 1616: Bouncing, Barroom Safety, and Preventing Predation in America’s Largest Beer Gardens
“Out of the roughly 12,000 underage people I removed, simple math suggests I may have prevented several dozen sexual assaults.”
Ask A Genius 1615: Jesus, Gospel Details, and the Politics of “Christian” Identity
“Community agitator, executed by Roman authorities, no investigation forthcoming..."
Ask A Genius 1614: Enshittification, Tech Decline, and Power
“Technology keeps getting more powerful, but our experience of it gets worse—because the business and cultural layer is about extraction, not improvement.”
Ask A Genius 1613: American Luck, Authoritarian Risk, and Jewish Community in a Fragile Moment
“We have been lucky as a country—but luck is not a permanent defense against instability.”
Ask A Genius 1612: From a 1920s Report Card to Authoritarian Alarm: Found History, Memory, and Power in America
“People tuck things into books—and sometimes they tuck entire histories inside them.”
Ask A Genius 1611: The Paper Clip
“An invention that has fundamentally changed everything—and which we barely notice—is the integrated circuit.”
Ask A Genius 1610: The New York Post, Murdoch’s Media Strategy, and Why James Cameron Chose New Zealand
“It would also exist essentially to irritate liberals every day, which amounts to free publicity.”
Ask A Genius 1609: FBI Resignation, ICE Shooting, and DOJ Stonewalling Claims
“In other words, it resembles stonewalling.”
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