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Internet Meltdown Predicted for Tomorrow

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the brace-yourself-for-fun-and-excitement dept.

Kobalt writes "A few news services are reporting that Russian computer expert, Aleksandr Gostev from Kaspersky Labs, has predicted that a large chunk of the Internet will be shut down tomorrow by cyber terrorists."

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  1. Re:google..... by Fnkmaster · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Murray and Hernstein, the Bell Curve? Seriously, I don't know if you believe that IQ really corresponds to what most of us mean when we say "smartness" or "dumbness", but it appears that these sorts of tests measure something that has some vague correspondence to the meaning we ascribe to being smart or dumb, though it's very far from perfect, and certainly fails to measure a lot of important characteristics of the mind that can be very valuable.


    Anyway, I don't think IQ distributions are perfectly normal, but they do look pretty roughly bell-like (if you don't believe that IQ has any correlation to intelligence, then I guess you can't really conclude much from the bell-like distribution). Of course, if you use some other, non-linearized scale for measuring intelligence than the mean and median will be nowhere near each other (i.e. if you consider the difference between Goethe and Joe Sixpack to be substantially more or substantially less than the difference between Joe Sixpack and a cucumber).

  2. Re:google..... by Cat_Byte · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    that is only correct 50% of the time.

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  3. Re:google..... by johnnyb · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Here's the big question (on a somewhat serious note): are made-up statistics any less accurate than those done "scientifically" but with bad questions and bad methodology?

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