why is this considered a coherent argument? it completely discounts the possibility of class mobility or discovering talented individuals who are not presently identified by existing institutional structures, and yet there are tons of examples of it historically.
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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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