Facebook's new "group history" tool is amazing. You can see, for example, that one of the largest pro-Kavanaugh groups on FB was previously called "ISIS SUPPORT GROUP" and "WHO FARTED? !!!!"

Meanwhile, "We Believe Christine Blasey Ford (official)" was called "Donald Trump 2020 MAGA (OFFICIAL)" until June, and a LGBTQ pride group before that. https://t.co/03AqsneVvw
When FB decided to promote "meaningful social interactions" by prioritizing groups over public pages, I'm not sure they accounted for scammy group-hoppers who just change their groups to whatever will get them the most engagement that week.
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THREAD: 12 Things Everyone Should Know About IQ

1. IQ is one of the most heritable psychological traits – that is, individual differences in IQ are strongly associated with individual differences in genes (at least in fairly typical modern environments). https://t.co/3XxzW9bxLE


2. The heritability of IQ *increases* from childhood to adulthood. Meanwhile, the effect of the shared environment largely fades away. In other words, when it comes to IQ, nature becomes more important as we get older, nurture less.
https://t.co/UqtS1lpw3n


3. IQ scores have been increasing for the last century or so, a phenomenon known as the Flynn effect. https://t.co/sCZvCst3hw (N ≈ 4 million)

(Note that the Flynn effect shows that IQ isn't 100% genetic; it doesn't show that it's 100% environmental.)


4. IQ predicts many important real world outcomes.

For example, though far from perfect, IQ is the single-best predictor of job performance we have – much better than Emotional Intelligence, the Big Five, Grit, etc. https://t.co/rKUgKDAAVx https://t.co/DWbVI8QSU3


5. Higher IQ is associated with a lower risk of death from most causes, including cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, most forms of cancer, homicide, suicide, and accident. https://t.co/PJjGNyeQRA (N = 728,160)