Forum: Story Recommendations

Also no eye dears, but the first story which came to mind when I saw "orcs" was the first https://storiesonline.net/universe/88/feldare story, https://storiesonline.net/s/45659/the-solitary-arrow - premier members only nowadays.

Those authors orcs are the original sort, nasty vicious brutes.

The OP is looking for the revisionist kind, a noble species of warriors.

I prefer the original myself, but to each his, her or others own.

I prefer the original myself, but to each his, her or others own.

Sure... But really. Casting orcs as a noble species of warrior..??!!

No doubt they live alongside vegan lions, carnivorous wombles and employ teenage velociraptors as babysitters...??

I can accept that a revisionist might deny that Napoleon's ultimate defeat was due to taking his army for a winter break in Russia, but was in fact a result of taking newly invented canned cooked chicken as snack food but forgetting to pack can openers... Revisionist in the sense of a revised view or attitude. But to use revisionist as an adjective to describe a view of chalk being cheese...??

Such idiocy can surely only survive within government...??

No reflection on you, Tw0Cr0ws, but such lunacy strengthens the urge to find a beach, build an inside out house so as to place myself outside the Asylum...

"If you were a Dinosaur, my love" was nominated for a Hugo. So not just government. Half the world is below average IQ. Most stupid people are too stupid to realise they are stupid, so they insist upon the rightness of their idiocies. When manipulated they are the "Useful idiots" that Lenin allegedly referred to. They will fight hard to validate themselves, no matter the destruction they wreak.

"If you were a Dinosaur, my love" is an evocative piece that deserves recognition, unlike much of the dross that garners awards from those who confuse the erudite with those who merely polish turds.

More to the point, the Dinosaur in question is most definitely not a vegan..!

Half the world is below average IQ

This is almost true. There are people that have IQ scores of 100 which is average. Less than half the people have IQ scores of 99 or less and also less than half the people have IQ scores of 101 or more.

This is almost true. There are people that have IQ scores of 100 which is average. Less than half the people have IQ scores of 99 or less and also less than half the people have IQ scores of 101 or more.

IQ is a funny number since it changes over time. The number 100 is determined by the median score of the norming sample (the "middle" of everyones scores). If people in general get smarter the number 100 gets to be a number that is lower than before, which means that a person with a current score of 100 would find himself with a score below 100 if he tested again.
In short, people can become more stupid because other people get smarter :D

So, while we oldies might look down on the millenials for not being able to make change for a dollar without an app on their phone, they think we are dinosaurs for not being able to run a VPN on OUR phones to enable porn surfing at work with impunity.

Ahum, those are two different things. Basic knowledge like reading, writing, and arithmetic are generic and not the same as specific knowledge about a subject. In most cases those millennials had someone else setup their VPN or it got installed by default. They only had to put a mark in the nice box next to the word "VPN" ;)

The Stanford-Binet test switched from a ratio to a deviation based number in 1960 when revision 3 was finalized.

The fourth edition hit in 1986. While still using a deviation, it used fifteen subtest grouped by similarities in place of an age scale. This was the first edition to be weighted based on socioeconomic status, which also limited comparison between scores from SB3 to SB4. It further limited age comparisons as the test was designed for ages two through twenty-three.

The fifth edition changed it up yet again in 2003. One of its criticisms is that each age group gets a different test set and thus comparisons between ages become suspect at best.

Based on the above, the comparison between versions, ages, and other factors holds no value added as there is a decided lack of consistency therein.

My personal opinion is the younger generation is getting screwed over out of this. They have no valid way to benchmark themselves against the older generations, and without that, no way to know if they are improving or falling behind older generations. They might think they have a high IQ but in actuality, they don't. Conversely, due to the weighting and age issues, they may also think they have a lower score when by comparison to SB3, it could have been much higher than SB5 would state.

Given the inability of snowflake millenials to do reading, writing and arithmetic to previous standards commensurate with their ages, it's likely that oldies are 'getting smarter' by default.

yep! No worries about CRS, we're getting smarter!

No reflection on you, Tw0Cr0ws, but such lunacy strengthens the urge to find a beach, build an inside out house so as to place myself outside the Asylum...

Just don't build a crooked house near a fault line.

Also gaming. More Dakka!

Remember that IQ 100 is determined by the median of all scores. That means that a set of scores with median 100 could be 1 1 1 1 100 101 120 130 140 or 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104. The number of scores below and above is the same but that says nothing about the actual values of the scores.

the normal curve

"Why is the normal curve important?
The normal distribution is the most important probability distribution in statistics because it fits many natural phenomena. For example, heights, blood pressure, measurement error, and IQ scores follow the normal distribution. It is also known as the Gaussian distribution and the bell curve."

The empirical rule tells you what percentage of your data falls within a certain number of standard deviations from the mean:
• 68% of the data falls within one standard deviation of the mean.
• 95% of the data falls within two standard deviations of the mean.
• 99.7% of the data falls within three standard deviations of the mean."

I don't disagree with you, I was just pointing out that IQ is a funny number in the way it works over time.

For example, heights, blood pressure, measurement error, and IQ scores follow the normal distribution.

Actually measurement error may or may not follow the normal distribution.

Using the normal distribution for measurement error assumes that there isn't a systemic error/bias in either the instrument or the measurement process.

Welcome to SOL's forum, where there is no moderation and discussions take place in the recommendations section instead of being moved to the section they belong to.
One would think the 15 or so replies that contribute absolutely nothing to OP's request could be moved to a separate thread over at the discussions section, but the technology just isn't there yet.

On topic, you might like the Wild Wastes series on kindle. Features more creatures than orcs, but a relationship is there between the protagonist and an orc woman.

There is no Off Topic section, so this is what happens.

Maybe you should suggest creating one to the webmaster.

There is no Off Topic section, so this is what happens.

Maybe you should suggest creating one to the webmaster.

That would be an oxymoron. Because if you have an off-topic section, the off topic discussions there wouldn't be off-topic.

Head explode at 11.

It was about a half human half orc who had limited magic powers and his adventures. he is a goodie

Bill Oddie ..??

a half human half orc

Would that make him a paddle?