Therefore, differences in culture, the law, geography and the economy may have created these same differences in the past.
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(As to why it's insane for that to be the assumption - groups differ on every measurable trait that's under selection)
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s in response to "what evidence would disprove your *assumption*?"
For the simple reason that he either answers "nothing will disprove it" showing it's a statement of faith or that any actual standard has actually been met.
Never mind that the assumption is insane.
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And what evidence would you need to believe that the people of classical Athens were as smart as those of England in 1700 ? You're all believers in IQ, while I think cognitive capabilities are multi-dimensional and hard to measure. Motes and beams here.
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It seems you're also putting forward a theory about selection behavioral and cognitive traits which claims that they can change significantly (with effects on the economy on society) on timescale of a couple of hundred years. How can that be verified against historical data ...
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