I know maybe 20-30. I'm aware of maybe a few thousand.
I use the language to understand not get an effect
trevwebdev 6/19/2026||
Interesting, I don't have the time to go through 100 though and having to click on answer and then mouse down to continue is a slog.
cm2012 6/19/2026||
Fun fact: there's a test you can do called wordsum which correlates extremely highly, like .71, to IQ. It's just asking you 10 vocabulary questions. It turns out knowing advanced vocabulary correlates really well to IQ.
summarybot 6/19/2026||
I don't know if I can get behind .71 implying "correlates really well" ... that's the issue I had recently with talking with GPT, it was evaluating my logical reasoning ability based on the vocabulary I was employing. You don't need fancy words to be intelligent.
rcxdude 7 days ago|||
I think people don't often have a good intuition about what different correlation coefficients actually look like or imply.
cm2012 7 days ago||
.71 explains about 50% of the difference, its bigger than the effect size of Advil or Tylenol
cm2012 7 days ago|||
High school GPA correlates much worse (.41). SATs correlates with IQ better - .82 or so.
Vaslo 7 days ago||
I can see how that’s confusing. But I always remembering people saying “can I speak candidly about this?” With them following up going off on the subject in detail and lots of emotion.
billfor 6/19/2026|
It marked this definition for “Candid” as incorrect.
“Secretive and very guarded”
But Candid can certainly mean secretive, as in “Candid camera”.
gryson 6/19/2026||
Candid does not mean "secretive and very guarded", though. People misunderstand the meaning of candid camera and assume it means "secret camera" and so use it that way, but that hasn't reached a level of misuse to redefine the meaning of candid.
ant6n 6/19/2026|||
I thought it’s candid because the subjects’ reactions are honest, unrehearsed.
billfor 6/19/2026|||
Yeah it is confusing me because in all cases the camera was hidden. I just think the definitions they give should be clearcut. There may be a case for saying that the way that word functions "in real life" is a bit different than the textbook definition, in some cases.
apical_dendrite 6/19/2026||
Typically "candid" in photography means something like spontaneous and unposed (and therefore capturing something honest about the subject rather than unrehearsed). It doesn't imply that the camera is hidden, they just hid it in the TV show to make it easier to get those kinds of shots.
none2585 6/19/2026|||
It is, candid definitely does not mean secretive
orthoxerox 6/19/2026|||
Got tripped up by "candid" as well. Have always thought it meant furtive or surreptitious. Well, it's never too late to learn.
thom 6/19/2026|||
Surely it’s called Candid Camera specifically because it reveals something that would otherwise be hidden?