Comments on: Hi-Ho

By: Lord-z

Lord-z — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:05:32 +0000

This is a web-comic. It is not especially fun. Its entire foundation is that it has famous characters in unusual situations.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 04:25:12 +0000

That’s okay, Pros. We can change it. By tomorrow, Wikipedia could say something completely different.

Mark in B. is correct. An i.q. is essentially a wankfest. How exactly can we measure something that we can’t exactly define? (I think that Doc wrote the i.q. test.)

By: Prosfilaes

Prosfilaes — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 03:20:18 +0000

Mark in Boston: That has nothing to do with how IQ has worked for most of the past century; as Wikipedia says, “the scoring of modern IQ tests such as the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale is now based on a projection of the subject’s measured rank on the Gaussian bell curve with a center value (average IQ) of 100, and a standard deviation of 15, although different tests may have different standard deviations.”

By: Mark in Boston

Mark in Boston — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 22:11:55 +0000

SSN: Intelligence Quotient is supposed to be “mental age” divided by chronological age. If you are ten years old and you are as smart as a ten-year-old (whatever that means), then your IQ is 100. If you are as smart as an eleven-year-old, your IQ is 110. It’s all very pseudo-scientific and pseudo-mathematical, and “average” isn’t mean, median or mode. It just means “average”, or whatever you want “average” to mean.

By: Jestempies

Jestempies — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 21:57:51 +0000

I agree with Two Dogs of Mercy, the surprise on her face is the joke.

By: rain

rain — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:25:43 +0000

Making pop-culture references isn’t, in and of itself, comedic.

The references have to be comedic to be, y’know, comedy.

But some people (hello, Seth MacFarlane!) think that simply making a reference to pop culture is funny. They’re wrong.

With this cartoon, I guess we’re supposed to think “I recognize her! She’s Snow White! And that Dopey dwarf sure is stupid! Doc is the smart one! HAW HAW!”

Or maybe the cartoonist just did mediocre work to meet deadline and earn a food pellet.

By: Some Statistics Nerd

Some Statistics Nerd — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 15:00:36 +0000

furrykef: That actually is not what average means. Look up the difference between mean, median, and mode.

Most people are smarter than the mean (average) intelligence. The people who are below the mean are so FAR below, they bring the whole average down. In a group of ordinary people who can function in society, you would expect most of their IQ numbers to be slightly above the average.

This probably has nothing to do with the comic.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 06:23:44 +0000

Well, Snow White is holding the scores as if she were the parent or the administrator of the test.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 04:38:14 +0000

Mark, where are you getting that she MADE them take an IQ test? Maybe Doc made them take the test so he could show off.

By: Mark in Boston

Mark in Boston — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 03:04:41 +0000

Why is she making them take I.Q. tests? They aren’t little kids. They are grown men with full-time jobs. Snow White is the youngest member of the household. Maybe they should have made HER take an I.Q. test. Or at least given her a little safety training. “If a stranger offers you a piece of fruit, what should you do?”