More data/commonsense needed on many *genics ideas. NRx meme: "genetic shredders". Even Darwin knew this was wrong.https://twitter.com/InaneImperium/status/767422315747500034 …
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e.g. "cities as IQ shredders". City/fertility/IQ correlations certain exist. But what's the 'alpha' attributable to cities?
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That NRx got it backwards! Did NRx think these people were idiots? Have they never read a novel set before antibiotics?
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(I'm being vehement but admittedly I was fooled for a month or two, myself.)
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There was no IQ-shredder effect because everyone hated the cities, among other things because they were so pestilent.
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So D a r w i n observed (though I haven't doubled-checked his stats/external validity) cities kill off poor ppl, & are eugenic
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The upwardly-mobile tried to get out of town ASAP, rarely kept families in cities, only visited in "the season" ie winter.
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