oh is this the whole IQ shredder thing or something else
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genes is as genes does you can't have one without the other
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why? as mentioned previously, the country is not nearly as closed of a system as the country.
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if you're proposing a link like city dwellers retiring to the country and having more kids, it doesn't appear to be happening. yet. massively polygenic systems behave like a powder, kinda. The universities are enriching the g factor. The more efficient they are →
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> if you're proposing a link like city dwellers retiring to the country and having more kids, no, i'm not. i'm saying that the very large population size of the country (hundreds of millions+, full order of magnitude larger than city) makes this kind of calculus useless.
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what mechanism suggests we should consider IQ to be a highly conserved quantity in large populations? what mechanism suggests that new high IQ individuals are not emerging from large populations at a faster rate than the city shreds them?
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answering either of those questions would be repeating myself.
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