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| Subject | Re: OT - For most of history, humans got smarter. That's now reversing. |
| From | Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha <taustinca@gmail.com> |
| References | <pge2lr01su4@news1.newsguy.com> <XnsA907955471113taustingmail@69.16.179.42> <6fbd9cec-bd1b-4c85-9403-0c5495a773f2@googlegroups.com> |
| Message-ID | <XnsA907A237FAFDCtaustingmail@69.16.179.42> (permalink) |
| Organization | Forte - www.forteinc.com |
| Date | 2018-06-20 15:56 -0700 |
John Halpenny <j.halpenny@rogers.com> wrote in
news:6fbd9cec-bd1b-4c85-9403-0c5495a773f2@googlegroups.com:
> On Wednesday, June 20, 2018 at 5:40:51 PM UTC-4, Jibini Kula
> Tumbili Kujisalimisha wrote:
>> The only thing an IQ test measures is the ability to take an IQ
>> test.
>>
> I don't think that an IQ test is a great measure of your worth
> as a person, or that declining scores are a sign of the end of
> the world.
Declining IQ test scores is a sign of nothing more than declining IQ
scores. There is no other meaning to it at all.
>
> Having said that:
>
> For centuries, intelligent, healthy and good-looking people have
> sought out other intelligent, healthy and good-looking people
> with the goal of raising a family with perhaps five or ten
> intelligent, healthy and good-looking kids. More recently, large
> families have gone out of style and only the "less favoured" are
> left to produce a significant number of children. Discuss
> possible outcomes of this?
>
Discussion is impossible without first defining what you mean by
"intelligence." (If you can come up with one - and only one - that is
universally accepted, and has some objective meaning, you will be,
literally, the most brilliant researching in the history of the
field.)
--
Terry Austin
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https://plus.google.com/u/0/collection/QaXQkB
"Terry Austin: like the polio vaccine, only with more asshole."
-- David Bilek
Jesus forgives sinners, not criminals.
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Re: OT - For most of history, humans got smarter. That's now reversing. D B Davis <g@crcomp.net> - 2018-06-23 15:35 +0000
Re: OT - For most of history, humans got smarter. That's now reversing. Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@sometimes.sessile.org> - 2018-06-23 17:13 +0100
Re: OT - For most of history, humans got smarter. That's now reversing. D B Davis <g@crcomp.net> - 2018-06-24 16:27 +0000
Re: OT - For most of history, humans got smarter. That's now reversing. Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2018-06-23 07:49 -0700
Re: OT - For most of history, humans got smarter. That's now reversing. Steve Dodds <sdodds@nova-optical.com> - 2018-06-20 16:42 -0600
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