Nah. Time preference, life expectancy, consanguinity, tendency towards lawbreaking just as important as IQ in any discussion on outcomes.
The same evolutionary forces that raised IQ also raised those other traits so it's difficult to disentangle the results but it does explain things like the highest income black neighborhood in the country being higher crime than the lowest income white neighborhood.
-
-
No, it's illogical to assume that black heart surgeons go around burgling black attorneys. They likely just live in districts near high crime neighbourhoods.
-
It's not the heart surgeons burgling the attorneys; they have kids that regress towards a lower mean. Point is though that the two factors are both present and both correlated in the evolutionary past with IQ but are not identical even though all we have are hints about it.
- Show replies
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.