All the more reason we are seeing larger farms with fewer farm owners.
I have a grandfather who is a farmer, and he is smart. But farmers also make up only a fraction of the people where he lives in rural Arkansas....
No, I simply ducked the ridiculous arguments that crop up around whether or not "intelligence" is something measurable. No, not at all, I am...
Again, IQ scores and education are highly correlated. The relevance of other countries is that you can see how IQ scores and educations systems...
I think you would be hard-pressed to find any country in the world with a population with low IQ scores that manages to be better in any of these...
I think that imposing pressures in some form of eugenics- nothing so extreme as sterilizing wide swaths of the public- is better than the state of...
Undoubtedly. Increasing baseline intelligence is a project that doesn't mean we stop improving our society in other ways, but one can hope that by...
Pursuing increases in baseline intelligence does not mean we then ignore the rest of life and stop learning from the best and brightest. Yet every...
Intelligence isn't increased by mobility, it's just moved. But yes, we have a dysgenic system that rewards less intelligent people, and a culture...
These are all efforts that are extremely valuable and absolutely worth pursuing, but there's also a reason to believe that there is an upper limit...
Your solution is not practical, and there are better alternatives to widespread sterilization. Eugenics is one of the slowest and most...
Eugenics has never been carried out or the results tracked on a large scale. They hadn't even decoded the human genome and were basically swinging...
Because people sub-100 IQ are still useful within society and treating such a large number of people harshly would result in heavy backlash.
The loss of human capital from most 20th century eugenic plans makes them undesirable, however yes, this is one of the most basic avenues we can...
The point of this post is not to argue what constitutes "intelligence", or even what methods should be taken to increase intelligence. The method...
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