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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Replying to @RCownie @gcochran99 and
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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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @gcochran99 and
You f*ckers have such remarkable faith in IQ test scores that you even believe in the power of non-existent IQ test scores from centuries before the tests existed. It's beyond dumbassery and into meta-dumbassery.
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Replying to @RCownie @CovfefeAnon and
Seriously, how do even reach the keyboard when your whole upper body is that far up your ass ?
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Losing your cool because we don't all acknowledge the authority of the Monte Python upper class twit of the year sketch. You do know it was a comedy show not an invitation to make yourself into a clown irl, right?
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @gcochran99 and
There's a big faction in America that simply worships wealth, and sees it as a mark of moral value, all-round excellence, and on the lunatic fringe, genetic superiority. Brits don't have that religion.
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Replying to @RCownie @CovfefeAnon and
Cochran doesn't think wealth/success is a mark of moral value either.https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2018/08/20/natural-aristocracy/ …
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