the researchers have focused on risk preference or aversion, and the possibility that it might be measurable and compared to others, offering a scale of sorts.
To learn more about how eager people are to engage in risky behavior, the researchers enlisted the assistance of 1500 volunteer adults to take a series of tests (39 tests in all), which together were meant to gauge a person's desire to seek out risky behavior. The team then analyzed the data and found that 61 percent of the variation in risky behavior scores could be summed up with a single component—a person's risk preference quotient, if you will. The remaining factors could all be attributed to which particular type of risk was involved. The single component, which the team dubbed as R, is general, the team notes, which suggests it can be applied multiple to[sic] risk situations along with other factors attributable to a particular type of risk.
The top level in intelligence quotient is called, "genius." Should the top level in risk quotient be called, "Hey Y'all, hold my beer?"
(Score: 2) by unauthorized on Sunday October 08 2017, @08:02PM
Broadening the definition of something for no good reason does not describe anything better. If I took the word "wood" and decided that now includes all plant flesh because otherwise flowers would feel excluded, that would not be a superior definition in any way. Now all I have is a broad generic term for a certain category of plant matter and no word for real wood. Then again, if I didn't have a proper way to describe intelligence, people can just say "but mah different types of intelligence" whenever intelligence comes up in a political discussion, thus allowing them to beat the conversation to death with a red herring without ever addressing the issue.
It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of language.