Intelligence Question (IQ)

Read a paper.

It said people have cognitive tilts.

The faster your processing speed the more you tilt either to tech stuff or academic (math verbal) stuff.

Doctors have more ability to do fast physical movements with their hands.

The paper said something about the advantages of such tech tilts for making more money in your 20s if you were mechanical.

Then again it also said you make more in your 40s if academic. Tech stops correlating for older people.

They measured this for people born in the 1970s and 1997 cohorts - this changed when you made the money so the predictions also changed.

That be because of the economy changes? Middle management and 2008 crash?

I do not know because I skimmed it as it had too much verbiage. Could not find revenant conclusions.

But people do tilt in cognition.

College did not help me at all because I failed to graduate. I did not get any tech job either because I wasn't aware of any. This was 2007

I found out that a rural / urban divide exists. That a brain drain effect happened over the past 15 years to the cities.

If you cannot memorize fast at reading then you do not get high up academically. (I am never going to get a coding job)

Some sonic the hedgehog game has a theme song with the lyrics: "trust me and we will escape from the city", they don't live on earth but in a future civilization.

I was not that into sonic but I remember it has an elaborated world with a big mythos, very scifi. My brother knows more than me.

Anyway that is a tangent.

And so is this:

The more people in the city the more the divide widens.

This one person thought we could get all the conservative to space on elons rockets but that defeat the purpose of why conservatives exist which is to manufacture things in the countryside. You do not have oil on the moon or people that can buy products like on earth. He got really angry at me telling him this. His magical thinking turned me into the enemy some reason? The city cannot exist without some amount of resources and you cannot just send people to space not qualified. It was a real mess talking to him on what was practical.

The fact is that politics no longer is about policy disagreements but personality and cognitive differences.

Bill clinton said "it's the economy stupid". But the economy is driven by what people do cognitively with resources.

15 years is a long time but it is enough to separate people (those tilts got exacerbated because of it)

Tomorrow I think I meet the job coach, she was not that clear on the phone about what I was supposed to do.

The Raven's progressive matrices is used to test the number of rules a person can follow at any point in time.

As it turns out the frontopolar cortex is the brain area that integrates all the information and coordinates a response.

So if you were to plan out some task with a number of steps that need to be followed in order this is the brain area that does it.

It is the most abstract in what it does being distant from the immediate actions one takes.

The most I ever got on the test was 115

If a task requires me to follow a number of rules that is about where I am at.

The back of the brain is devoted to perceptual tasks.

It tracks where thing are.

My ability to know what and where thing are at is around 130

So it is a asymmetry between front and back brain.

I cannot do math good, on the tests I usually get 85 for numbers and speed. I cannot hold much temporary information.

I think it is interesting that multitasking requires the frontopolar cortex because that is usually how intelligence is portaryied.

A person takes in a whole bunch of information and organizes it to get things done in real time.

I am learning more on how the brain does executive functioning.

It helps me understanding the kind of models I will need to make for my projects in the future.

@meowzician

I was in the science fair in middle school 3 times but honestly it was mediocre what I did compared to some kids.

I think that the way the mind works we have abilities to pay attention to certain patterns but if those patterns are not there we cannot excel.

The only reason I was in gifted programs in high school was because I did my school work but I had no friends.

The things I understood and the things they taught us did not match up.

Example was I did not understand calculus so did not understand Object Oriented Programming.

The very basic of calculus is that you have functions f(y) = x

You can make circles and other shapes but adding numbers together.

When I went to college they had me do the 7th grade again and write an random political easy so I quit.

The last year of high school a kid in another town made a computer program that could recognize cancer patterns in film data samples.

I do not know what I did much of the time but I know they did not teach me things to help me get projects done, I was kind of left to the side.

The antidote I use is that in 6th grade i wanted to know what made the pixel glow on the computer the teach said ones and zeros but it was actually phosphorus struct by an electrode gun in the back.

The mismatch is wide but I keep doing my own thing.

The program I wanted to do in the high school computer class was reinforcement learning. No one told me the idea I just came up with it but I could not put it into the computer. The teaches just assumed I knew what the computer did. The way I think is different so they did not know what to tell me.

Not to be gloomy I do eventually figure out what is going on. It's just not structured in such a way as I understand it from other materials.

It is the ideas that I come up with that are great but implementation is hard because experts in other field do not know what I mean.

The shared understanding is not there however I believe if I found the right books I could do certain things.

When I was a kid I mostly looked at the pictures and did not read much. As I adult I now know how I need to read the books.

So maybe that was the problem.

Looking at pictures is helpful but its not instructions.

So some people pay attention differently and that makes a difference.

Advanced books exist that explain it all written by doctors and neurologists.

The internet is not a good source of information with paywalls.