In fact the key prejudice that drives eugenics is something now Juan to be definitively false (that all "positive" traits are correlated, that physically healthy and beautiful people are also competent, virtuous and wise)https://twitter.com/Simon_Whitten/status/1228991252106039302 …
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Intelligence has a g factor and correlates with symmetry of faces. Intelligent people are desirable for a society. Intelligence is heritable. Intelligence is a strong factor in attractiveness.
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Replying to @proximaratio @arthur_affect
return your phd because you didn't understand a single thing he wrote
. i'm embarrassed for you.seriously. for your simple brain: you CAN'T define intelligence in the absolute. so your "studies" depend on an axiomatic definition that ipso facto renders the correlation trivial1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @pounceminouche @arthur_affect
What kind of data would convince you that iq is an objective measurement?
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Replying to @proximaratio @arthur_affect
that's not the point my feeble brained friend. whether your definition of intelligence (regardless of if iq measures it without bias) means anything is the point. here's a clue: it doesn't. and here's the conclusion: you're an idiot. now about asking for a refund for that phd...
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Replying to @pounceminouche @arthur_affect
What do you mean with 'means anything'? Charactercally? Agreed, it doesn't . Income, lifespan surely yes. Is that fair? Surely no. Why do you keep insulting me? Btw original definition of idiot: person with low iq due to lack of iodide.
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Replying to @proximaratio @pounceminouche
No, the *original* definition of "idiot", in Greek, is literally "selfish" ("idios" is "self"), or more accurately "self-interested", an ignorant and uninformed person who took no interest in the affairs of the polis
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Although, yes, Binet included "idiot" on his list of terms for varying levels of intellectual disability, it was never specifically associated with iodine deficiency, you're thinking of the word "cretin"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @pounceminouche
Yes! I knew I read the iodide connection somewhere!
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