This is quoted out of context.To answer the original question, does the fact that IQ rates have been increasing year on year for a century mean that youngers will always be progressively smarter than olders?
In the same way that the younger generations will on average grow taller than their parent's generation?
Reading about Flynn effect in Wikipedia is something else, quite interesting.
Here is one of the published articles from Perspectives on Psychological Science
2015, Vol. 10(3) 282–306.
Although, this research does seem to see the start of a slowdown of the rate of IQ gains so perhaps youngers are becoming 'more stupid' after all.
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Over the last few months, and based on my own experience during development, I think the two elements of people which are most suppressed in careers are youth and intelligence.
Resentful old neurotics in corporations are prevalent, although but somewhat suppressed, angry in interviews, and rejecting radical, (often blue sky) thinking. I'm in no doubt that much loss of development occurs because of this, and potentially a great deal of economic growth for nations.
Would Oskar Heil, who brilliantly conceived the AMT have got on in corporations? I suspect not, but he worked well with Von Schweikert and Nelson Pass at ESS, all of them free thinkers.
I believe also that intelligence is very closely related to sensitivity, and that this makes them vulnerable to abuse.
Its not the cardigan, its the whole demeanour Galu.
Resentful old neurotics in corporations are prevalent, although but somewhat suppressed, angry in interviews, and rejecting radical, (often blue sky) thinking. I'm in no doubt that much loss of development occurs because of this, and potentially a great deal of economic growth for nations.
Would Oskar Heil, who brilliantly conceived the AMT have got on in corporations? I suspect not, but he worked well with Von Schweikert and Nelson Pass at ESS, all of them free thinkers.
I believe also that intelligence is very closely related to sensitivity, and that this makes them vulnerable to abuse.
Its not the cardigan, its the whole demeanour Galu.
In an earlier post I wrote:
Which means it has a surface area of exactly pi square inches, or 3.14159... square inches, one quarter of the area of a sphere with a one-inch radius.
Mea culpa. 🙂
It's funny how often the subconscious mind catches a mistake or solves a problem while I'm supposed to be asleep!
-Gnobuddy
And at 2:30 AM last night I woke up abruptly with the realization that, while we never clearly defined it, a 1" sphere usually means it has a diameter of 1 inch - and so a radius of half an inch.
Which means it has a surface area of exactly pi square inches, or 3.14159... square inches, one quarter of the area of a sphere with a one-inch radius.
Mea culpa. 🙂
It's funny how often the subconscious mind catches a mistake or solves a problem while I'm supposed to be asleep!
-Gnobuddy
Never knew that... I thought a "fifth" was a mickey...
Canadian guide to liquor sizes:
50mL = miniature
200mL = baby bottle
375mL = mickey
750mL = 26er
1140mL = 40
1750mL = 60
3000mL = Texas mickey.
What some people really need to do is clean their keys or remove their "butthurt"... 😛
How do you know the power is connected without checking if it makes a spark? LMAO
What I never understand with these memes is why the arcflashing is on the neutral leg?
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I see your Canadian and add another Canadian:
50mL = Airplane or sample bottle
200mL = Half mickey
375mL = Mickey
750mL = 26er
1140mL = 40 pounder
1750mL = Jug
3000mL = Texas mickey.
50mL = Airplane or sample bottle
200mL = Half mickey
375mL = Mickey
750mL = 26er
1140mL = 40 pounder
1750mL = Jug
3000mL = Texas mickey.
It has happened to me many times, you have a problem to solve (technician) you go to sleep thinking "tomorrow I will take care" and you find the solution dreaming .....😱
@kodabmx; "What I never understand with these memes is why the arcflashing is on the neutral leg?"
Oh, proper protocol demands you first make electrical contact with the hot side. That weeds out anyone with a bodily path to ground... Then you make contact with the neutral.
I worked at Amazon in an FC for about a year. Corporate requirement was full Arc-Flash suit coverage (Helmet, double gloves, balaclava, cotton fabric street clothes underneath) for working on anything over 48V! Forbidden to even open a cabinet door and reach inside for anything w/o one...
A couple times; pages of paperwork, multiple signatures from different department heads, a dozen people involved, full arc-flash suit - to flip a circuit breaker back on.
Good thing these young stupidites making the 110 arc-flashes dont have access to 480. With umpty current behind it, I got trained it makes a pretty nasty flash.
Oh, proper protocol demands you first make electrical contact with the hot side. That weeds out anyone with a bodily path to ground... Then you make contact with the neutral.
I worked at Amazon in an FC for about a year. Corporate requirement was full Arc-Flash suit coverage (Helmet, double gloves, balaclava, cotton fabric street clothes underneath) for working on anything over 48V! Forbidden to even open a cabinet door and reach inside for anything w/o one...
A couple times; pages of paperwork, multiple signatures from different department heads, a dozen people involved, full arc-flash suit - to flip a circuit breaker back on.
Good thing these young stupidites making the 110 arc-flashes dont have access to 480. With umpty current behind it, I got trained it makes a pretty nasty flash.
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I guess nothing succeeds like excess, at least to a corporate lawyer!
Back in 2017 there was a good-sized building construction / renovation project in one of the older buildings at work. In the hallway by the water-cooler I met a very flushed, very sweaty, very overheated construction worker gulping down cold water and cursing to himself.
It was a very hot day, and a quick chat with the distressed worker revealed that his boss demanded that all construction workers wear bright fluorescent safety vests at all times on the work site- even when working alone in a dark, hot, cramped,coffin-sized crawlspace in the attic. 🙄
I've had to wear one of those vests a few times, and the bloody things don't breathe at all. Wearing one on an already hot day is pretty unpleasant.
In this particular case it seemed pretty evident that the worker was at greater risk of heat-stroke from wearing too many layers of safety clothing, than he was of being accidentally run over by a forklift in the attic crawlspace. 😱
I suspect the worker's union and provincial safety legislation does actually require safety vests to be worn at all times on a construction site - but applying this blindly to a person working alone inside a small dark space is obviously idiotic.
-Gnobuddy
One thing I've found is that the term "high voltage" is about as as ambiguous as the term "heavy".
Amongst some people I work with, anything that doesn't require a Fluke HV probe to measure is "low voltage".
At school, however, 24V is considered by many to be "high voltage". Some of my classmates were recently baffled by the fact that I'm not too scared to work with the 48V power supply for phantom power on a mic preamp because that's apparently "very high".
Of course, for a while there was a rumor circulating that you could electrocute yourself with a the ohms range on a regular multimeter.
Personal experience: I could feel a tingle on the *back* of my hand when working in a very hot and humid basement with 24V battery powered equipment.
No Mains involved whatsoever so it was not the common mains leak tingle and I was covered in sweat.
No Mains involved whatsoever so it was not the common mains leak tingle and I was covered in sweat.
The safe limits for steady-state voltage in Scottish schools are regarded as 33V rms AC and 70V DC in dry conditions.
Standard procedure. Too bad he was wearing an insulating unit (jacket type), not one of the open weave (mesh) type that would have kept him cooler.
This is mostly correct. If you're in the lunch shack or medical trailer on a break and away from the construction you are permitted to remove it even though you are on site.
Not so. That person has to enter the lighted area at some point. They also have to be visible to someone with a flashlight.
I would be concerned with ventilation in that situation more than a properly issued target vest.
Our safe limits in wet conditions are 16V rms AC and 35V DC.
In fully immersed conditions it's 0V and 0V!
I got a full out shock from a 12V car electrical system while working in the rain and soaking wet.
The car had chrome bumpers, and I was changing the battery. My knees were against the bumper for support..
Interesting. The EE department at my university doesn't seem to care one way or another. University safety might have something to say, but the microwave engineering professor didn't bat an eye at the idea of the amateur radio club building a tube linear with a 1500V power supply.
Most of the students who are so skittish with a 24V power supply are also the ones who think seat belts and bike helmets are for "sissies". Not quite sure how to explain that one.
"Cycling isn't dangerous, why would you need a helmet?" -Someone who hasn't crashed yet.
I remember the old time, where to test a 4.5V battery one would feel the voltage by the tip of his tongue.
45V is considered safe in France.
Actually there not absolute safety considering how dumb one can be.
A cousin of mine, at a car battery on charge in the dark used a cigarette lighter to see wether it were venting. It took some time to have his hair and eyebrows back as before.
45V is considered safe in France.
Actually there not absolute safety considering how dumb one can be.
A cousin of mine, at a car battery on charge in the dark used a cigarette lighter to see wether it were venting. It took some time to have his hair and eyebrows back as before.