I think if they were raised from birth in a culture that put high value on shuffling pieces of paper in order to get a high-status job sitting in a cube staring at a screen, then they'd do fine. How d'ya think IQ bros would do in the middle of the Kalahari w/ no gear ?
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Replying to @RCownie @TeaGeeGeePea and
You’re making our argument for us now. Yes, we did evolve in different environments.
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Replying to @evo_homo @TeaGeeGeePea and
Nope. We evolved over tens of thousands of years trying to avoid dying of cholera, pneumonia, etc and grow or gather enough food to stay alive. Everywhere. And nobody was taking anything like an IQ test anywhere until maybe the Tang dynasty around 1400 BP.
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You don't think that some being sharper than others ever had anything to do with survival or success. You're projecting !
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Replying to @gcochran99 @evo_homo and
I think there's considerable value in having sufficient innate cognitive ability to learn the core knowledge of a culture. And I think the consequences of going much above that are a mixed bag in societies barely above subsistence agriculture.
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Replying to @RCownie @gcochran99 and
e.g. in medieval Europe, about 80-85% had to be working in food production, b/c there was only a small surplus above subsistence to feed non-food-producing craftsmen and elites.
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Read Greg Clark's stuff. Reproductive success was quite different by class. The more successful farmers had TFR well above 2.0, while landless laborers didn't replace themselves. Rinse and repeat, on and on.
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Replying to @gcochran99 @evo_homo and
"Class" = "money". You and he assume that's something to do with something something cognitive mumble mumble genetics mumble IQ. Gonna lay a truth bomb on you and reveal they didn't have IQ tests in the middle ages. The rich aren't different, they just have more money.
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The rich _are_ different: they have higher-than-average IQs. As do their children. Class differences in IQ are well-documented. Saying that IQ tests didn't exist in the Middle Ages is of course true, but is irrelevant: the talents it measures existed and mattered.
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Replying to @gcochran99 @evo_homo and
This is always hilarious to a Brit. The wealthy in Britain are famous for being upper-class twits good for nothing but riding horses and slaughtering defenseless animals in a variety of expensive ways.
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What's hilarious is you believing Monte Python jokes reflect reality but that IQ tests and real world accomplishments should be dismissed.
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