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Podcast: The DemystifySci Podcast
Episode: Mathematical Rigor v. Reality - SOLO! Drs. M.S. DeLay & A.V. Bendebury, DemystifySci #375
Description: The Demystify Duo sits down for a conversation about the hidden variable that decides how successful someone’s ideas will be. Normally, you hear that intelligence, the “g-factor” that Richard Haier and other intelligence reasearchers point to, is the decisive factor for worldly success. And while that might be true in some purely quantitative sense that’s measured in terms of salary or stock options or whatever, that seems to not be the most important thing for being able to see the world accurately. We spend the conversation trying to define what that hidden variable is, and why it’s so impor...