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
You're right. Nothing to do with iodide. The term "idiot" was used around 1900 to refer to people having an IQ below 30. Still not really underlining the point of my sparring-partner. Honestly, what makes you so angry?
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Replying to @proximaratio @pounceminouche
The point is that "idiot" is properly used as an assessment of someone's character and not their "IQ"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @pounceminouche
Why do you assess my character idiotic?
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Replying to @proximaratio @pounceminouche
Because you seem to have no interest in the monstrous history of IQ and eugenics that makes people react emotionally to it
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"React[ing] emotionally" isn't the best way to understand science.
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Reacting emotionally is the *inevitable* result of *actually* understanding science and living in a world where that understanding has consequences
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